It’s amazing how technology has advanced over the past 20 years, so much that some time ago I found a poster of a museum exhibition on textile technology. I attended this show and I must say, I was shocked with the progress of the textile industry and how it applied to industrial jobs, aerospace, high performance sports, medicine, etc.. What I saw on that occasion, was the connection of thattechnology with everyday clothing, but this changed a few days ago when I found about anti-contamination clothing .. but .. What’s it all about?

The truth is that at first glance this looks more like a science fiction story than reality, but it is not, it is the creation of catalytic clothes. These would have a component that traps harmful particles and purifies the air while walking through a big city. This is the same technology used in self-cleaning glass, which simply put, is a layer of titanium dioxide nanoparticles, which generate free radicals upon contact with oxygen and sunlight. The effect this technology would have in the fabric means that the nitrogen oxides released by hundreds of vehicles and machines in the city, are captured by the fabric and transformed into harmless nitrates, so it would help the air flowing around the person wearing the clothes cleaner.

Such is the wonder that the fashion industry promises with its new “Super Couple”, the chemical industry, that they ensure that if one million people will always use this type of fabric, in a city of about 8 million inhabitants, it could decrease by a 5% to a10% the contamination of the city, fascinating is not it?.

Until we can get one of these “outfits” is a good idea to be aware of our environment and take better care of our cities.

Luz Obscura

Until we can buy catalytic clothes at a a dressing shop , we can go shopping in the fashion city par excellence which is Milan. Rent apartments in Milan enjoy the late summer months and give yourself a few shopping days .. That always feels good

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It\’s amazing how technology has advanced over the past 20 years, so much that some time ago I found a poster of a museum exhibition on textile technology. I attended this show and I must say, I was shocked with the progress of the textile industry and how it applied to industrial jobs, aerospace, high performance sports, medicine, etc.. What I saw on that occasion, was the connection of thattechnology with everyday clothing, but this changed a few days ago when I found about anti-contamination clothing .. but .. What\’s it all about?

The truth is that at first glance this looks more like a science fiction story than reality, but it is not, it is the creation of catalytic clothes. These would have a component that traps harmful particles and purifies the air while walking through a big city. This is the same technology used in self-cleaning glass, which simply put, is a layer of titanium dioxide nanoparticles, which generate free radicals upon contact with oxygen and sunlight. The effect this technology would have in the fabric means that the nitrogen oxides released by hundreds of vehicles and machines in the city, are captured by the fabric and transformed into harmless nitrates, so it would help the air flowing around the person wearing the clothes cleaner.

Such is the wonder that the fashion industry promises with its new \”Super Couple\”, the chemical industry, that they ensure that if one million people will always use this type of fabric, in a city of about 8 million inhabitants, it could decrease by a 5% to a10% the contamination of the city, fascinating is not it?.

Until we can get one of these \”outfits\” is a good idea to be aware of our environment and take better care of our cities.

Luz Obscura

Until we can buy catalytic clothes at a a dressing shop , we can go shopping in the fashion city par excellence which is Milan. Rent apartments in Milan enjoy the late summer months and give yourself a few shopping days .. That always feels good

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It seems that people still don’t understand the meaning of fashion – that it is still thought of as a frivolity; something belonging exclusively to the elite, with nothing to do with ordinary, daily life. This could not be wrong. Fashion is everywhere, and it has the power to radically transform your life. Fashion has replaced the space previously occupied by organised religion, and television – institutions which these days yield little power or influence over every day life. Fashion is inside all means of communication.

What are the revolutionary elements of fashion in this day and age? Perhaps not many, but like all contemporary cultural artefacts, it is nothing more than the result of hundreds of recyclings, repeated visions and visionaries. Arthur Rimbaud believed in the distortion of the senses to reach higher levels of perception – and fashion does exactly this when you think about it.

In the Western sense, fashion is the result of an organisation which is for the survival of an aesthetic which is placed in front of the rest in a competition of originality and daring. This is how the big designers of the world are the ones who mould the body of the men and women of today. And if you think about it, clothes are not something which is just added on top of the body, but the body is conditioned, and defined according to an immaterial concept – material which covers the body to give shape and meaning to the dress; in such a way, that one is displaced by that clothing. So when you find yourself buying discount H&M clothing at the end of the month, you are simply a cog in the wheels of this controlling system. You are part of this clothes machine – the clothes don’t belong to you, you just give it volume, and movement; you are replaceable, not indispensable.

And with all this in mind, the fashion industry continues to be unstoppable. Each year the number of designers grows, along with the resources for the manufacturing and creation of clothing. Even if New York, London, Paris and Milan continue to be the centres of worldwide fashion, there are still possibilities for the creation and production of alternative clothing, which is accessible to all. Just browse the web a bit, and you’ll find fashion made locally, of not only good quality but much more affordable, and produced using more natural and environmentally friendly methods.

Milan Fashion Week runs between the 21st and 27th of September, For more information on the shows, designers and events, you visit the website http://www.cameramoda.it/.

Alexa Ray

There’s nothing quite like finding one of the apartments in Milan and enjoying a week of glamour and beauty.

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