events and sightings:
Mumbai, NYC, and Canada: Our Fall 2019 Events Schedule
We’re pleased to announce our events schedule for the second half of 2019.
Our dark power bodysuit. Photo source: Pundi.
After taking a brief break from events to enjoy our summer and focus on new product development, we’re pleased to announce a busy events schedule in autumn 2019.
Sept 9-15 | FashionTech Week NY | New York City, USA
Workshop host: Designing an illuminated bra.
FashionTech runway show exhibitor.
We are pleased to return for our second year of participation with FashionTech Week NY. Last year we provided an opening keynote, for our second year we are returning with an interactive workshop.
Sept 21 | MakeFashion 2019 | Calgary, Canada
Event producer/Co-Founder.
Runway show participant.
Our FashionTech journey started over 7 years ago when we co-founded MakeFashion in hour hometown of Calgary, Canada. As always, we will be returning to produce this event with our friends from the community around the world.
Oct 9 | Tech Fashion Tour by Exhibit Magazine | Mumbai, India
Jury Member for India’s next big Fashion-Tech Designer.
Runway participant.
We are thrilled to be traveling to India to judge India’s next big FashionTech designer and participate on the runway with celebrity Bollywood stars modeling our garments.
About the Author: Chelsea Klukas is a serial tech entrepreneur and has worked as design leadership in several startups and global companies including Amazon and Facebook. She is currently a product Design Manager at Oculus, and her product leadership experience includes shipping the Echo Look, Amazon’s first fashion-focused AI-enabled voice assistant, BeauCoo, a social shopping startup that helped women find clothes that fit, and design lead at Poynt, a cross-platform location-based app that pioneered augmented reality features in the early days of iOS.. She is also a co-founder of FashionTech runway organization MakeFashion and founder of Lumen Couture.
Chelsea Klukas is an award-winning interdisciplinary technology artist, and was recent granted her Doctorate of Fine Arts (h.c.) in 2019. Her Lumen Couture projector hat, a hat that includes real-time projection mapping and visual inputs to display video on a dress, has gained international attention as the first of its kind.
