Images viaBy creating this plate mail dress, haute couture technologist, robotic dress-designer, and Fergie stylist Anouk Wipprecht has merged Medieval battlefield sensibilities with shocking turn-of-the-century chic. Replete with a spiked helmet that can conduct electricity, at the MakerFaire 2014 in San Mateo, California, she demonstrated the dress's shocking capabilities by performing with ArcAttack— the same band that electrified David Blaine while playing rock songs with a Tesla Coil— and fashionably withstanding nearly half a million volts. As the band reached the climax of the very epic In The Hall of the Mountain King, Wipprecht stepped in between the two coils, gazing serenely at the audience as the electricity passed through through her clothing. "Normally I work with fashion models,” Wipprecht told Popular Science. “But this time, nobody else wanted to wear it.”Consisting of a 600-ring chainmail suit, a stylish plate metal dress, and a large metal helmet, the suit acted as a Faraday cage, partially to safely conduct the electricity, and partially because spiked clothing just looks awesome.No stranger to integrating electricity into fashion, Wipprecht often uses electronics in her work, including a 3D-printed smoke dress, which cloaks its wearer by emitting bursts of smoke, andIntimacy, a dress collaboration with Studio Roosegaard, that becomes transparent when it interacts with electrical currents.Check out the newly released footage (above), which offers key insights into how the dress looks and works when conducting a charge equivalent to around 800 electric eels. You can also learn more about her dress— and how to make one yourself—with this handy instructable. But if you do choose to build your own plate mail dress, we must suggest you abstain from doing the Electric Slide— even chainmail can't handle a million volts of cliche.Conduct your way on over to Wipprecht's website and ArcAttack's band page to crank up the juice on your own electric fixation. h/t Daily MailRelated:Robotic Spider Dress Replaces Shoulder Pads With Insectoid LegsMake It Wearable | The Concepts: The Future Of Athlete AnalyticsHere's How You Paint With Electric ShocksTesla Coil Artwork Activated By Visitor's Movements
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