Lorrie Cranor, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University has created a unique dress using material that she designed while on a “sabbatical” at The Studio for Creative Inquiry at the University. The dress design for the material came from the most common bad passwords around, along with her similarly conceived Security Blanket… Continue reading The Bad Passwords Dress
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Women in Paris Finally Allowed to Wear Trousers
Paris finally says ‘Oui’ to women in jeans! A 200 year old law forbidding women to wear trousers in Paris has finally been revoked. The unenforced rule survived several previous attempts to repeal it, partly because officials didn’t think it was a priority. The municipal order required Parisian women to seek permission from local police if… Continue reading Women in Paris Finally Allowed to Wear Trousers
LED Twitter Dress Displays Real Time Tweets
Nicole Scherzinger stepped out on Thursday night wearing a Twitter Dress, an electronic-powered dress that displayed real tweets in real time. It contains 2,000 LED lights and 3,000 Swarovski crystals. The dress was created by London-based fashion technology company CuteCircuit, whose clothes are embedded with lights and rechargeable via USB. The Twitter Dress was commissioned… Continue reading LED Twitter Dress Displays Real Time Tweets
Cheryl Cole Dazzles on Cannes Red Carpet
British singer Cheryl Cole’s white and red dress nearly matched the event’s trademark red carpet during her arrival at the 65th Cannes film festival in Cannes, France. Via: Marie Claire
Picture of the Day: Angry Birds Dress
The wife of Peter Vesterbacka, head of Rovio (the company that makes the Angry Birds game app) wore an Angry Birds inspired dress to Finland’s Independence Day ball.