Digital Visions in Fashion + Textiles: Made in Code

The invention of the Jacquard loom in the 18th-century century paved the way for computing and revolutionary change. Since then, code has evolved to enable new methods in design, visualization and production, achieving the previously unimaginable. Digital Visions for Fashion and Textiles considers how computing has reinvented image, material and structural processes, highlighting advancing 2D, 3D and interactive output. Digital/analogue fusions are defining new contexts for innovative fabrication. Twenty-two of the most forward-thinking practitioners are profiled including:

Savithri Bartlett • Basso & Brooke • Daniel Brown • Hussein Chalayan 
Joshua Davis • Hil Driessen • Tom Gallant • Louise Goldin • Jane Harris 
Jakob Schlaepfer • Michiko Koshino • Issey Miyake • Nuno • Prada 
Casey Reas • Vibeke Riisberg • Jonathan Saunders • Peter Struycken 
Simon Thorogood • Nancy Tilbury • Iris van Herpen • Sonja Weber

This publication is the first to reflect upon the emergence of computing and its creative and cultural influence on broader contemporary textile and fashion sectors. The research concept is driven from the co-authored perspective of two fashion and textile practitioners whose own engagement with early digital tooling in the UK and the USA, provided particular insight into pioneering approaches linked to corresponding design sectors and parallel applications arising from evolving animation, post production, online publishing and interaction design.