Fashion designer Lauren Bowker has created textiles that are meant to be set on fire.
With chemistry and fashion, Lauren combines these two garments. Lauren’s most recent collection, names Air, uses fabrics that contain inks that change color when they are burned. Lauren and her team have spent 10 years developing the chemical compound that makes this ink, that can be injected into garments. The inks react to the temperature, and as a result, change color quickly when in contact with fire. The result of this is a luminous pattern created by the flame’s path, with brighter hues left where the center of the flame had reached, and more subtle tones created by the warm atmosphere surrounding the fire. The jackets Bowker has designed using
With chemistry and fashion, Lauren combines these two garments. Lauren’s most recent collection, names Air, uses fabrics that contain inks that change color when they are burned. Lauren and her team have spent 10 years developing the chemical compound that makes this ink, that can be injected into garments. The inks react to the temperature, and as a result, change color quickly when in contact with fire. The result of this is a luminous pattern created by the flame’s path, with brighter hues left where the center of the flame had reached, and more subtle tones created by the warm atmosphere surrounding the fire. The jackets Bowker has designed using