You may be a fashionista who is as opposed to technological advances as those rebels (or trailblazers, they fancy themselves) who dare to wear white after Labor Day, but technology simply cannot be avoided. If you think about it, and not for long, studs remind you of the buttons on machines that do important things and the mesmerizing lights of a video game look like the sparkle of a sequin. You get the point. And now designers are combining the two fields in less abstract ways. Google “little black M dress” when you have time. It’s a mobile phone dress; just insert SIM card.
What will they think of next? Inquiring fashion-forward minds want to know.
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