Shareware

Up until recently, the term “interactive fashion” really only meant one thing: Zippers that were easy to get your boyfriend (or girlfriend) out of at the end of the night. Di Mainstone wants those words to take on a new meaning — one that can involve way more than two people.

Sharewear, a pair of electronic dresses that work together to create pools of light, were designed by Di while in residency at V2 in Rotterdam. They represent an absorbing new take on both interactive media and fashion. Designed to be worn by two people in unison, the dresses physically slot together, and in doing so activate different pools of light and shadow. The unique dresses (which, to be fair, might be better described as costumes, because even the ballsiest of fashionistas would consider them pretty futuristic) play with the lights and darks to create new lightscapes, and can be manipulated by both the dress wearers and the audience — should they choose to be involved.

If all of this is sounding terribly techy, get your right brain cranking with the visuals in this video, which could be best described as Power Rangers meets stoicism meets, well — you know — Europe.