Introducing the 2019 MakeFashion Lineup

By Chelsea Klukas, Founder — Lumen Couture

We're pleased to be a part of the internationally-acclaimed FashionTech runway show this year.

MakeFashion has just released their lineup for the 2019 event in September, where the new collection of fashiontech garments will be debuted before they tour the world internationally.

The event will take place in Calgary, Canada on Sept 21, 2019 in partnership with Beakerhead. This is the second year that MakeFashion has partnered with Beakerhead for a stunning outdoor show.

MakeFashion's mission is to support the community of designers, makers, and engineers in FashionTech. The ten teams are funded with a bursary of $500 to go towards materials and work towards their creative projects. MakeFashion is also supporting nine "emerging designers" with bursaries of $250.

This year Amped Atelier is creating an interactive performance piece that is a fashionable musical instrument. They will make a garment capable of using capacitive touch, proximity, and gesture, to generate beautiful electronically produced melodies.

Amped Atelier has showcased with Lumen Couture and MakeFashion many times, including in the recent FashionTech showcase at the MoPop Museum in Seattle.

This project aims to include wearable technology in an elegant way, showing that technology can be used in a way that can enhance the beauty and mystery of a piece of clothing without compromising comfort, movement, and wear-ability.

The "Does it Come in Black" team is a new addition to MakeFashion, and we're looking forward to seeing what they produce for the runway.

The project asks the question of "How can we go beyond our biological makeup to heal the earth and ourselves within the Anthropocene?" and tackles philosophy and global warming. The garment will use RGB sensors to read the aura of the room.

This project promises to be a visually engaging as well as thoughtful piece of Fashion Technology.

About the Author: Chelsea Klukas is an award-winning interdisciplinary technology artist and design leader. She has founded two companies exploring the intersection of fashion and technology (Lumen Couture and MakeFashion) and was recently granted her Doctorate of Fine Arts (h.c.) in 2019. Her Lumen Couture projector hat, a hat that includes real-time projection mapping and visual inputs to display video on a dress, has gained international attention as the first of its kind. She is an advocate for diversity and women in tech.

Lumen Couture is fashion that illuminates for unexpected elegance and drama. The designs are informed by the international fashiontech shows hosted by MakeFashion, an organization that introduces youth to STEM through hands-on fashion technology workshops.