Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan is no stranger to technology. Animatronics were used back in 2006. In his recent Paris Fall 2008 Fashion Show (via Boing Boing), the designer created mechanical dresses that sent out moving spots of light to symbolize the big-bang theory of the beginning of the universe. It's a beautiful sequence that feels almost like a ballet.
Click here to watch the video of the fashion show at Swarovski Sparkles TV.
(The models above come out at 11:30 in the video.)
Also on a non-tech related note, it was interesting to spot knitted calf boots by Chalayan (right) down the runway, just like the ones made by Tina Marrin (left) featured in the premiere issue of CRAFT Magazine back in the Fall of 2006.
You can also see photos of the entire Fall collection at Style.com.
