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Robyn’s ‘Indestructible’ Suit of Living Glowsticks

Jessica Lapidos — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:43:51 +0000

Our love for Robyn up in FashionIndie is pretty damn fierce. And it just reached a new level with the making of her Indestructible video. If you’ve seen the music video, you’ll know it features what some might call soft-core erotica. So you might not have noticed that feat of architectural fashion that Robyn wears as she writhes and sings in a tubes of flowing colors. Those didn’t just make themselves. It was the brainchild of Australian designer Lucy McRae. She spent two years developing this technology as she worked to weave a dynamic textile from liquid, air and vapor. See how here:

The Making of Robyn’s ‘Indestructible’ Music Video with EXTRA FOOTAGE from Lucy McRae on Vimeo.

Lucy McRae wrapped over 1,300 yards of transparent plumbing tubing (that’s over 13 football fields!) around Robyn’s fair body.

The result: the longest, most technologically advanced living glowstick in the world.

INTERVIEW: Lucy and Bart, Designers

Saynt — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:33:35 +0000

Design duo Lucy McRae and Bart Hess work in a far future design research programme. They describe their work as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body, click here to check out the interview.

Designer: Lucy McRae and Bart Hess

Rebecca Alexander — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:05:10 +0000

A fascinating project which tries to reach (and then pass) body’s boundaries. A reflection, a projection, an hypothesis of evolution…basically, it’s really freaking cool.
“…LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement…”