Hussein Chalayan's latest tech couture is lovely.

Susannah Breslin points us to new work from fashion designer Hussein Chalayan, whose most innovative work frequently incorporates unusual uses of wearable technology:

At the end, two girls came out in mechanical dresses that, in the darkness, sent out moving spots of light configured to symbolize the big-bang beginning of the universe. They were, as always in a good Chalayan show, astonishing and moving.

There's video here, and those cybergirls come out at 11:30 mark. Here are backstage stills of cybergirls: one, two, at Style.com (thumbnailed above).

[#1 posted by sayeth, February 28, 2008 10:15 AM]

Cybergirls can has cheeseburger?

[#2 posted by Steaming Pile, February 28, 2008 10:33 AM]

Great. The Borg are assimilating our supermodels.

[#3 posted by jwb, February 28, 2008 10:36 AM]

It's hard to tell if the skin job on the left is a mannequin or what.

[#4 posted by monkey, February 28, 2008 11:17 AM]

a nice sleek unitard has a much cleaner line than those baggy leotards the models were sporting. how could a designer not be attentive to such a detail? sadly, whatever effect he was going for was lost with all strobes going off during their walk. although, i achieve a similar effect every december when untangling my christmas lights.

[#5 posted by Anonymous, February 28, 2008 11:23 AM]

Good luck getting on a plane with those fashions.

Better stick with flip-flops, muscle shits and plum smugglers.

[#6 posted by ployntabs, February 28, 2008 11:50 AM]

Yes, Borg was what I was thinking. Sort of reminds me of these photos in Life magazine of girls wearing dressers or televisions and coming off as futuristic. Problem is; our current girls look like an episode of TNG from the eighties. So is this retro couture?

[#7 posted by arkizzle / Moderator, February 28, 2008 12:17 PM]

#4

"" a nice sleek unitard has a much cleaner line than those baggy leotards the models were sporting. how could a designer not be attentive to such a detail? ""

How do you know what was and wasn't deliberate?

[#8 posted by inboulder, February 28, 2008 1:10 PM]

Don't make those famine victims carry around extra weight, they're already about to snap in half, although I'm sure there's a gay man somewhere that thinks they look good.

[#9 posted by jjbuilder, February 28, 2008 1:24 PM]

well, clearly #4 *ain't* a designer otherwise he would have noticed that wrinkles and baggy folds were very much a theme of the collection and so yes it probably WAS deliberate

[#10 posted by Antinous / Moderator, February 28, 2008 1:38 PM]

I'm sure there's a gay man somewhere that thinks they look good.

O hai. I'm glad to see that you've finally figured out that anorexia is a plot hatched by gay men to kill the women of the world and use their husbands and boyfriends as sex slaves. What took you so long to catch on?

[#11 posted by artbot, February 28, 2008 1:47 PM]

We have vastly different definitions of the word "lovely".

[#12 posted by Shawn Wolfe, February 28, 2008 3:49 PM]

Mondo 1991

[#13 posted by Anonymous, February 29, 2008 8:15 AM]

I'm often caught completely off guard by the selection of music for runway shows. It's usually something I've never heard before and quite appropriate. I wonder if runway music sounds as sexy and adventurous without the backdrop of supermodels? Having said all that, does anyone know who did that awesome number they were playing?

[#14 posted by MarkM, February 29, 2008 11:59 AM]

The music was amazing...