Fashion Victims
Fashion Victims explores the invisible world behind mobile communication: a collection of garments that react (respond and change) according to the surrounding mobile phone calls. the aim is to see what would happen if our clothes - everyday objects that we carry on our person - were able to display this presence.
The metaphor for visualizing mobile communication comes directly from nature: clothes, as a second skin, react to the environment and change in color. Here, as more and more phone calls are conducted in their surroundings, the clothes progressively and permanently change color.
Fashion Victims subverts the expected behaviour of an everyday object to create and raise awareness about the subject of mobile communication. By producing a physical result with every call, the mobile phone is revealed in all of its pervasiveness and intrusiveness: its tendency to violate the private space we potentially have within the public context.
Fashion Victims has been conceived and developed at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, since Spring 2003,
by: Agnelli Davide (ITA), Buzzini Dario (ITA) and Tal Drori (IL).
