Dress Blog — Dress 4 Our Time

GUEST BLOG - SARAH HARVEY, PROJECT MANAGER, SCIENCE MUSEUM

So, Dress For Our Time has arrived at the Science Museum, London, complete with its latest digital adornment and we are thrilled! Working in collaboration, Helen Storey and digital innovation agency Holition have created an artwork that is beautiful, thought provoking and which clearly visualises the truth behind the figures of one of the world’s most pressing issues, that of human movement around the globe.

The Science Museum have been hoping to work with Helen for many years now. Her practice exploring cutting edge science, technology and global issues through the medium of fashion is quite unique and Dress For Our Time offered us the perfect opportunity to finally realise this aim.

Nik D.September 8, 2023Comment

GUEST BLOG - UNHCR UK: FEARS GROW FOR ALEPPO RESIDENTS AMID LATEST VIOLENCE

Fresh fighting threatens hundreds of thousands of lives, driving shortages of food, medical supplies and mass displacements.

DAMASCUS, Syria – Intensified fighting in Aleppo in recent days has cut off humanitarian access to most parts of the city, with the resulting shortages of food, medical supplies and other essentials threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Nik D.August 30, 2023

GUEST BLOG - HOLITION: ‘MORE THAN A DRESS…THE ALCHEMY OF DATA AND FASHION’

Our relationship with Helen Storey started a number of years ago when we were developing links with London College of Fashion by hosting inspirational lectures, to Masters students and offering internships. We have now just launched our second major project with the Dress For Our Time at the Science Museum.

For each project we have developed a four step iterative process. It starts from insight (academic, market and primary research), which then informs the strategy (plan and outcomes), which directs the creative (aesthetic concept), and ONLY THEN do we decide upon the technology (software or hardware) to build.

Nik D.August 25, 2023Comment

REFLECTIONS OF ZA’ATARI REFUGEE CAMP - ‘HOW TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR IN HELL’

These are the experiences, which make you question the purpose of your life.

As we drove along the surrounding camp wall of Za’atari refugee camp in 40-degree heat, people squatted in the width of its narrow shadow, their torsos hugging the perimeter. They were surfing on the edge of the base camp Wi-Fi, in order to communicate with relatives they can no longer be with.

Nik D.July 31, 2023 Comment

DRESS FOR OUR TIME COMES TO THE SCIENCE MUSEUM

Last week, London College of Fashion announced that Dress For Our Time is coming to the Science Museum London, in August 2016, as part of their Our Lives in Data exhibition this summer.
Read the full story on the LCF News blog.

Nik D.July 24, 2023

ROKIA TRAORE WEARS DRESS FOR OUR TIME AT GLASTONBURY

We woke to Brexit news.

What a place to be when that landed.

A likely epicenter of outrage and yet the power of all that Glastonbury stands for; its ability to bring people together, to easily render us all the same, through mud, music and frankly, magic, somehow delivered many free of the immediate impact of the news.

Nik D.July 5, 2024

DRESS FOR OUR TIME DISPLAYED AT THE UN GENEVA TEDXPLACEDESNATIONS EVENT

Professor Helen Storey’s Dress for Our Time was displayed at the United Nations in Geneva earlier this month, as part of the TEDxPlacedesNations Transforming Lives event. There, the dress was on show not only to the one thousand people in attendance, but also to the thousands of people watching the event live online.

Nik D.March 10, 2024Comment

CHAPTER ONE...

On 26th November the first physical embodiment of Dress For Our Time will be launched at St Pancras station for 4 days only. Doing what Helen does best this beautiful installation will use the power of fashion to communicate some of the world’s most complex issues and help change the way we think and act upon climate change.

Earlier this year Helen was interviewed by Bel Jacobs, discussing the project – where it started and how it has developed. Speaking openly about the ‘tipping point’ and why she is now devoting all her time to climate change.

Nik D.November 12, 2023Comment

“LOOK MUM, NO FUTURE”

Today we are launching ‘Look Mum No Future’ - a social media campaign, which will shine a light onto ‘Dress For Our Time’ and invite people to join with us in finding new ways to help us wake up, dig deep and inspire each other to bring to the surface what a brilliant and inventive species we are.

It’s time to put our imaginations to work in a new way.

Nik D.June 17, 2024Comment

2 SONGS AND DESIGNING FOR NOW

This piece has two beginnings – Here’s the first:
In January of this year I asked esteemed colleagues from industry, science and academia to share with us how the future appeared from their perspectives. None had seen each others presentations before showing them, but each ended, one way or another, on a date, a tipping point, the time when we will need two planets if we continue to consume at this rate in the UK and 5 planets, if the USA continues along the same path too. No one said anything – we’d heard this before in varying ways? Or was the renewed consensus of such a combination of voices, paralysing?

Nik D.January 27, 2024Comment

“WE ARE NOW FACED WITH THE FACT THAT TOMORROW IS TODAY. WE ARE CONFRONTED WITH THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW. IN THIS UNFOLDING CONUNDRUM OF LIFE AND HISTORY, THERE “IS” SUCH A THING AS BEING TOO LATE. THIS IS NO TIME FOR APATHY OR COMPLACENCY. THIS IS A TIME FOR VIGOROUS AND POSITIVE ACTION.”
— MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:

Thank you to the many wonderful human beings who have made this project possible -
Paul Albert, Ezzidin Alwan, Shane Bailey, Trish Belford, David Betteridge, Kiran Birk, Orsola De Castro, Chiana Capacyachi, Noemie Cavaliion - Ram, Georgina Chatfield and RSA Academies, Johnathan Chippindale, Alex Chunie, Caroline Coates, Agatha Connolly, Loukia Constantinou, Paul Copsey, Frances Corner, Tom Cranstoun, Renee Cuoco, Jon Daughtry, Nik Daughtry, Josh De Souza Crook, Lida Driva, Anna Fitzpatrick, Joanne Frears, Russell Freeman, Nikos Georgopoulos, William Gordon, Ellie Greaves, Sharan Grewal, Keith Hallam, Corin Harper, Noah Henderson, Claudine Henry, Mathew Higgins, Rosie Higham – Stainton, Stuar Hill, Seth Honnor, Pierre Houdyer, Marion Hume, Susan Ibreck, Shinny Jain, Bel Jacobs, Gavin Jenkins, Dave Johnson, Rebecca Johnstone, Cheonga Kim, Darren Kirby, Rob Knifton, Tim Kurz, Steve Legget, Andrej Mahecic, Ben Martin, Denise Maynard, Paula Maynard, Fiona McAuliffe, Sandy Munns, Rebecca Munro, Jon Nichols, Zoe Norton, Louise Owen, Laura Padoan, Irini Papadimitriou, Michele Paradise, Deepa Patel, Benjamin Rajapandian, Robert Randall, Naomi Richmond-Swift, Glyn Roberts, Jeff Rosevear, Phil Sams, Michael Saunby, Hilda Sheppard, Imogen Slater, Jess Smulders Cohen, Fiona Spence, Wendy Spinks, Carol Allen Storey, Mark Tarbard, Erin Thompson, Burcu Turkay, Cindy van Rees, Judith Wichmann, Binu Wickramsinghe, Dilys Williams