Diana Eng's Electrifying Fashion Show

Great Hall Provides Setting for Unique Runway Event

Designer Diana Eng will present the latest innovation in fashion at 2pm Saturday in the Great Hall.  Models will walk the runway in a high-end fashion show, featuring designs that are electronic, shape transforming, motion sensing, and biomimetic.  Included in the show is a dress inspired by bioluminescent jellyfish and fabricated with electroluminescent wire. Also featured are clothes with deployable structures mimicking opening leaves.

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"World Maker Faire is filled with creations made by the type of garage inventors who pioneered the airplane and personal computer, " said Diana Eng.  "My fashion designs are made with the same spirit of invention. Fashion Week is right around the corner from World Maker Faire making this the perfect opportunity to bring together the fashion industry and today's inventors to look at what fashion will be like tomorrow."