Lauren Bowker The Unseen Designer Lauren Bowker has designed a colour-changing leather jacket capable of responding to heat and changes in air temperature to expose the unseen pollution and turbulence in the air around us. Bowker developed the ink-based chemical compound responsible for this metallic-hued colour change over the course of 10 years with her London-based exploratory studio The Unseen. The jacket is currently the only piece designed with this alchemical property, but Bowker is positive that in the future other items of clothing will be able to respond to surrounding variables such as sound, moisture, pollution and UV rays. “My alchemy is searching to reveal what we don’t see, feel, hear, or know around us and making it seen,” she explained.
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