Called "Sharewear" by creator Di Mainstone, this pair of dresses light the area around them in different ways depending on how they're linked up. Both costumes feature a floating, halo-on-a-stick-style lamp above the wearer's head, as well as a second light under the dress, beside the wearer's legs. The shadows the dresses cast are different when the various connectors are used: they can be slotted together at the hip or hooked up with a rod.
Sharewear is designed as a performance set. The dresses come in small boxes and are assembled on-stage before the audience and manipulated in real-time. Di Mainstone created the dresses with the V2_Lab team during her residency at the V2_ Institute in Rotterdam. Check out the galley below for more of her Sharewear.
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Sharewear, via Elit Alice
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By trs at 1:17 PM ON 07/24/08
Is it just me, or do these suits make the women look like Tweedledee and Tweedledum?
By me at 1:21 PM ON 07/24/08
I don't get it... Ok so they are strange dresses that light up and connect... Their purpose??
By Erebiel at 3:00 PM ON 07/24/08
These are the stupidest fucking things!!!
By IPuke at 3:02 PM ON 07/24/08
I just bought two of these.
Why?
Because I am an IDIOT.
By Eric Rice at 3:21 PM ON 07/24/08
I'd wager coolness is a darkness only thing. Kind of like Christmas lights, which look ugly in the daytime.
By pox at 4:16 PM ON 07/24/08
I like them. I think you guys don't get it - they should be in a museum or part of a performance - not made for commercial purpose. It's quite obvious, non?
By ronzo at 4:49 PM ON 07/24/08
That's just stupid looking...
By IsoTek at 5:24 PM ON 07/24/08
They remind me of the costumes from the future sequence in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and the Television show. Wierd!
By mike at 6:49 PM ON 07/24/08
I dont care if they are for performance or a new wearable porta-potty which might actually be usefull at some point in the next 1000 years unlike its intended purpose,which is non(e). its still retarded and a waste of time and money
By mike at 6:51 PM ON 07/24/08
I dont care if they are for performance or a new wearable porta-potty which might actually be usefull at some point in the next 1000 years unlike its intended purpose,which is non(e). its still retarded and a waste of time and money
By unspun at 2:55 AM ON 07/31/08
Dear "ME" -- lesbian apparently, which may be a bit of a trend for some, but hardly "chic."
By cranky at 9:30 AM ON 07/31/08
Does this lamp make my butt look big?
YES.
By mgmann at 9:36 AM ON 07/31/08
Wierd, yes.
Attractive, no.
Truly funtional, not really that either -
However, it looks like something remotely similar to a dress I saw on a gal at a Blue Man Group concert - can you see it light up and not based on the beat of the music? Strobe dress anyone???
By EssemDei at 12:43 PM ON 07/31/08
Looks mighty itchy.
By battym at 1:06 PM ON 07/31/08
I don't understand what the big hairy is. It's just a fun, funky thing. And it's not your money, Mike, so what's the big deal? It's not like your wifey is gonna run out and buy them!
By Mel Phistopheles at 1:41 PM ON 07/31/08
Not Girlicious, Girldiculous!
By bodwinsgirl at 9:50 AM ON 08/04/08
These are the ugliest dresses that I've seen in a long time, and they do make the models look rotund. These are two attributes that I would not want in my clothing, no matter how interesting or techno-cool it is.