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Don’t ever let me hear that men have the short straw when it comes to innovative fashion!  Hussein Chalayan wowed audiences with his incredible Spring/Summer 2007 catwalk show, packed to the gills with interesting – and in many cases unwearable – clothing for the ladies.  What might interest us geeky types, however, is the animatronics involved in some of Chalayan’s more intriguing designs.

One such dress began as a high-necked Victorian gown (lest you should see your wife’s ankles) and then, to a background of sounds and music from the twentieth century that included airstrikes and jingoistic speeches, gradually transformed itself – with no input from the statue-like model – with raising hemlines and shifting bodices into a twenties Swarovski crystal studded flapper dress.  Honestly, it has to be seen to believed, and luckily there’s a video over at Swarovski Sparkles TV (be aware, towards the end of the video a dress transforms itself into a hat, leaving the model naked – NSFW unless your company approves of that sort of thing).

Perhaps this heralds a new age of multi-fashion clothing – a suit that is sensible for the office and then, at the touch of a discrete button in the cuff, retracts the trousers and sleeves and becomes a safari-suit-cum-party-outfit.  If creating such a thing is your new goal for 2006, you’ll be interested in Showstudio’s “making of” post.

Showstudio [via BoingBoing]