Korean fashion designer Kim Jin Hyung created a line of interactive clothing especially for women. Up to now, most of the ready-to-wear interactive fashion designs have been targeted towards the male audience with some styles ‘transformed’ for women’s styles with rather simple cuts.

But Kim Jin Hyung designed certain items specifically for women’s body form, featuring attractive aesthetics with soft materials, allowing to flow around the body’s shape. QIO’s e-textile 6-button control pad makes it possible to use soft, flowing fabrics for interactive clothing as the e-textile blends seamlessly into these materials.

Beaucre, a Korean corporation of women’s young casual wear that operates 3 brands ON&ON, W.DoubleuDot and Olive Des Olive, with 250 stores in Korea and China, launched the collection of Kim Jin Hyung’s iPod enabled clothing.

The coats and jackets come with with QIO`s controller for iPod, but the interactive clothing is ready to support any of QIO`s modules like Bluetooth, MP3 player and more. The interactive clothing line from Beaucre is selling at this moment in Korea and China only, but there is hope that Beaucre will find partners internationally, bringing the gorgeous looking interactive women’s fashion to the rest of the world soon.

The fabulous looking coat is the first image available online and goes for a more than reasonable Korean Won 278,600 (approximately 190 US dollars), a very good price tag for such an item, taking into account the rest of the interactive apparel available on the market.

Apparel companies are expanding their interactive fashion collection in the 2008/09 season with more styles and colors, reaching with this interactive fashion collection for women another milestone for technology enhanced clothing. It nicely shows that technology and clothing can be arranged, packed and designed to look …. gorgeous.


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