Chalayan dress - dresses that transformed themselves. (VIDEO)

Hussein Chalayan a fashion designer teamed up with an engineering company to make futuristic dresses that can change its form on the fly. In the picture the dress has a moving neckline, its décolletage changed from risqué to very modest. Every Chalayan dress was intended to transform through three decades of fashion change from Victorian times until now. Some dresses zip or unzip themselves and transform in different ways. 2D3D director Rob Edkins described: “Basically, the dresses were driven electronically by controlled, geared motors. We made… little pads for the models… within these containers we had all the battery packs, controlling chips–the microcontrollers and microswitches–and little geared motors. The motors we used were tiny, about a third of the size of a pencil and nine millimeters in diameter. Each of the motors had a little pulley, and the pulley was then attached to this monofilament wire which was fed through hollow tubes… running everywhere, carrying these little cables, each doing its little job, lifting things up or releasing little linked metallic plates. There was a huge amount of stuff going on beneath the clothes.”