Inflatable Dress
This interactive dress allows you to pump up your breasts to whatever size you want, and adjust them on the fly.
The (above) banner ad is what appears at the link listed in the email: http://www.wind-chimes.ws/MUM/234X60.htm.
Once in a while, I receive inquiries and press about my work. The two above are my favorite.
This project elicited a bit of feedback. I had made this dress in response to one of the weekly assignments for the class, Personable Expression and Wearable Technologies class (great class taught by Despina Papadopoulos at ITP). This one was to "hack a toy into a wearable." I used two beach balls. My documentation, and more projects, for the class is at: here. My instructor called my work "subversive," which I thought was funny.
From my documenation for the class is a little more background about this dress:
"This dress was inspired by a conversation about breasts that I had with Greg, a friendly acquaintance, at a party. After more than a decade of being a bike mechanic, he realized his avocation was not financially viable, and he decided to change careers to something with more earning potential. Because he is good at working with his hands, he decided to become a surgical technician. As part of training, he has been apprenticing at a private hospital in a wealthy community. He told me the majority of the surgeries at that hospital are plastic surgery, particularly breasts. Part of his job is to fill up the breasts (I presume with the saline (?)). The doctor gives him a number (e.g. 420 cc), so now he can easily equate breast size with cc‘s (cubic centimeters, i.e. volume). Which I think is funny. Instead of thinking of breasts as cup size, he can gauge them by cc’s of saline. Every now and then, the doctor announces an outrageously big number, like 500 cc’s. Without a gauge for this, I asked him how big 500 cc’s is? "Half a liter a breast. A large bottle of Pepsi is 2 liters," he responded. As the doctor puts down the patient for surgery, and asks the patient to count backwards from 10 to 1, Greg always wonders if the woman realizes that’s the last conversation anyone’s going to have with her face."
I can't read Dutch. Nonetheless it's flattering to be mentioned in the same article as Martin Margiela.