Self Organisation in Industrial and Fashion Design

Hussein Chalayan is a London based fashion designer who is experimenting with form and material in his collections. In his collection Spring/Summer 2007 he utilizes software controlled micro motors which are built in the textile structure to create a self-regenerating system.

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BMW GINA Light is the latest concept car of BMW, which utilizes a flexible textile as the cover to form its outer skin. Whit the moveable skelett structure under this skin GINA can change its form in The almost seamless flexible textile cover that stretches across a moveable substructure has dispensed with the usual body elements found on production vehicles such as front apron, bonnet, side panels, doors, wheel arches, roof, trunk lid and rear deck. The new material offers designers a significantly higher level of freedom of design and functionality.