True Colors Fashion: The Future is Now!

Showcasing Adaptive Fashion and Tech Wearables

SINGAPORE
– Media OutReach – 7 June 2021 – The
Future is Now! unites some of the world’s
leading tech companies and fashion brands with a diverse cast of models to
present innovative creations. This video series – which includes an atmospheric
pre-recorded runway show & revelatory conversations between cast members –
now on the True Colors Festival
YouTube Channel, captures human creativity at its best, and the endless possibilities
that technology offers.

Meet an ALS
creator who makes art with eye movement input, see hearing aids worn as
fashion, prosthetic blades for children, discover an ingeniously designed
trench coat…and more.

“Since
the invention of computers, we have been able to solve problems with software,
and it has become easier for people to connect with one another. In keeping
with this idea, The Future is Now!
sets the stage for diverse people to express themselves with fashion that’s
empowered with technology,” says Yoichi
Ochiai, renowned media artist and general director of the show.

Participating models include Masatane
Muto, a DJ with ALS who plays music with his eyes; Pippi, a deaf model who has graced ad campaigns and fashion runways;
Hirotada Ototake, bestselling author
of the memoir “No One’s Perfect” about his life without limbs; and Fumiya Hamanoue, a visually impaired Paralympic
climber.

Collaborating brands include Xiborg Inc. and SONY Computer Science Laboratory, both specialists in prosthetics
enhanced with robotics; ONTENNA, which converts sound information into
light and vibration; Tommy Hilfiger
Adaptive, the first major label to launch a full-fledged adaptive line; and
KANSAI YAMAMOTO, the fashion house
that has dressed luminaries like David Bowie. 

“I want to build a world in which not having the use of
legs will not be an obstacle to running. I want to make running with a
prosthetic leg a normal thing…for everyone,” says Ken Endo, founder of Xiborg Inc. and researcher at Sony CSL.

The
Future is Now! is the third part of the True Colors
Fashion series produced by Kao Kanamori.
The first two parts were launched in March this year: Clothes
in Conversation, a documentary available to watch on YouTube and a photo exhibition at the annual
Shibuya Fashion Week.

Supported by Arts Council Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan
Foundation for History and Culture and Aputure. Co-presented by DRIFTERS INTERNATIONAL.

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