Interactive Fashion Featuring of Sound in Fashion Design

This paper discusses recent research into the role of interactive fashion in human communication. The focus is on sound and the possibilities of how fashion can interact with sound to contribute to a new way of initiating social interaction and expressing one's emotions. Innovation for the application of sound in fashion design has been undertaken in order to explore the creative possibilities of developing a sound-fashion-human interactive system. A series of experiments have been conducted and innovative prints are designed. A fashion collection has then been designed and presented in the form of illustrations. This realizes the processes of interpreting human-sound-fashion interaction in fashion, highlights the feasibility of application to contemporary design and facilitates further analysis of its contribution towards the development of the fashion industry. The feasibility of applying interactive fashion in a collection is evaluated by using a mixture of methods, such as questionnaire survey and self evaluation. Finally, predictions about the potential influence of the experimental work on the future fashion industry are made.