How many of us have found the perfect dress and wished it was available in another colour? Or another pattern? Or simply got bored of it? In such scenarios, the investment we make in clothes comes haunting back. The solution to getting rid of this guilt? Customizable clothing.Designer Sebastian Errazuriz has created a dress out of 120 zippers all of which can be unzipped and zipped back into countless designs. The dress can be anything you want it to be: long, short, low neck, high-neck, halter, tube; anything ranging from a casual day dress to a fancy evening gown. It can even be converted into a two-piece. With this one item in your wardrobe, you pretty much need nothing else.
Apart from Errazuriz, a number of other designers have been creating clothing that can be altered according to the customer's taste. We are talking way beyond personalised couture. Berber Soepboer, thinking along the same lines, launched her DIY (Do it yourself) Dress. Inspired by childrens' coloring books, this dress comes in basic patterns which have to be filled in with any desired colour. She has also added a number of buttons, the closing/opening of which can change the colour of the attire, or unravel a whole new pattern. Designer Fernando Brizio does something similar, where the colour scheme of the outfit can be changed with each wear.
Customizable clothing comes as a major breakthrough in fashion as for the first time, the buyer has paramount control over the final product. As such, the customer becomes the designer, making her/him the master of her/his clothing. Compromise on even the most trivial things is on its way to becoming an archaic notion of the past.
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