Ying gao

Montreal-based fashion designer Ying Gao merges a poetry in craftsmanship with technological curiosity. After attending university at the Haute cole d'arts Appliqus in Geneva, Switzerland and pursuing a Master's Degree in Multimedia at L'Universit du Qubecwhere she currently holds a professor positionGao has grown to focus her technically-charged efforts on merging clothing with technology. All…

Montreal based fashion designer and professor at University of Quebec in Montreal

able to recognize the colors in its immediate surroundings, the garment is at once liquid and chameleon-like, adapting to its environment.

There is a beautiful irony to Ying Gao's use of fabrics from the world, and rendering them so fragile that they only function in the context of conceptual art.

montreal-based fashion designer ying gao presents a new collection of kinetic clothing called 'incertitudes', that tessellate in reaction to sound.

These ‘smart’ garments form part of her Possible Tomorrows project.

Designer Ying Gao has created dresses with eye-tracking technology that light up, move and change shape when they are looked at. The gaze-activated ivory dresses resemble jellyfish when they light up (right).

Ying Gao uses technology to demonstrate the protective and uncertain natures of interactive clothing.