Montreal based fashion designer and professor at University of Quebec in Montreal

These ‘smart’ garments form part of her Possible Tomorrows project.

There is a beautiful irony to Ying Gao's use of fabrics from the world, and rendering them so fragile that they only function in the context of conceptual art.

Designer Ying Gao has created dresses with eye-tracking technology that light up, move and change shape when they are looked at. The gaze-activated ivory dresses resemble jellyfish when they light up (right).

In Flowing water, Standing time, the Montreal-based designer interprets Oliver Sacks’ The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat through robotic clothing. Ying talks us through her early inspirations as a child in Beijing, and how she became interested in new technologies and design as a result.

fashion designer ying gao presents her collection of interactive clothing, ‘possible tomorrows’ consisting of two robotized garments.

Fashion designer Ying Gao has created Flowing Water, Standing Time, a pair of robotic dresses that respond to their environment as if they are alive.

Ruffles inside jacket