A Dress for Lady Gaga<\/b>, a project. The idea was born after loading Raquel\u2019s car with thousands of earphones assigned by Renfe (Spanish Railway Company) to carry out a reuse workshop coordinated by basurama<\/b> (www.basurama.org) reuse and entupunto<\/b> (http:\/\/entupunto.blogspot.com.es\/). If we think about a fashion icon, about new costumes, about the connection between headphones and music … Lady Gaga just seemed obvious.<\/p>\n
The dress it is not only a dress, but a musical instrument, and a loudspeaker of more than two hundred of loudspeakers.<\/p>\n
All the earphones used to weave the dress are single-use, non-recyclable and almost never reused. Their usable time does not exceed three hours, the time of a train ride from Madrid to Barcelona, for example. The price of each piece in the market is between 0.1 and 0.3 USD. A manufacture of this kind of product has\u00a0 the ability to supply 1 million a month of earphones and the shipping time is of only 15 days to anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n
Some details of the dress<\/b>:<\/p>\n
For making the dress we used 235 earphones<\/span>, each of which measures extended 2.15 m, which means that the ball of headphones used measured 535.8 meters.<\/p>\n It took about 37 hours to weave (much more to design and actually knit it, as we have to make and unmake till it has been perfect).<\/p>\n The dress weighs 2,720 kg<\/span>, is 78 cm long, 45 cm hip and corresponds to a size 36-38.<\/p>\n Our goal is that Lady Gaga get the dress, our ideal, that she wear it.<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Promotional video<\/b>: http:\/\/vimeo.com\/68639659<\/a><\/p>\n