Vice Style

There's an unhinged, possibly dyslexic, part of my mind that wishes fashion shows were more like video games and music videos. Most of the time that just isn't going to work, but if you're a designer and you do want your clothes to exude Rez-like digitalism, then Moritz Waldemeyer is your guy. Waldemeyer trained as an engineer at King's College London, and specializes in making electronically illuminated clothing for bands such as OK GO and U2, and fashion designers such as Hussein Chalayan. Waldemeyer says he came across the idea of wearable technology when, as a student, he was set a research group project to investigate life ten years into the future. Some of his outfits do things your American Apparel T-shirt can only do if you're tripping, such as fire lasers, show moving images, or become giant dot matrix displays. We interviewed Walgemeyer for the Creators project we're working on with Intel. Check it out.

Waldemeyer's most famous piece for Chalayan. The dot matrix lights showed moving images

A Walter Waldemeyer bicycle