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Towards A Design Space For Storytelling On The Fashion Technology Runway, Sydney Pratte, Anthony Tang, Shannon Hoover, Maria Elena Hoover, Matt Laprarie, Catherine Larose, Lora Oehlberg
Towards A Design Space For Storytelling On The Fashion Technology Runway, Sydney Pratte, Anthony Tang, Shannon Hoover, Maria Elena Hoover, Matt Laprarie, Catherine Larose, Lora Oehlberg
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Fashion is driven by a narrative, i.e. a story or idea that the designer wants to convey to the audience. Fashion-tech now adds another dimension to this narrative through dynamically changing aspects of the garments. Many factors of presentation in a runway show affect how fashion-tech garments communicate a story to the audience. In this pictorial, we review a set of twenty-eight storytelling fashion-tech garments. We identify, catalogue, and categorize the factors designers used to convey stories to the audience from the runway. The design space consists of three levels: (1) the artifact-level, (2) the viewer-level, and (3) the context-level. …