With computerized accessories like the iPod and designer cell-phones already making a huge impact on fashion, it was only a matter of time before new styles incorporated the computers themselves. Well, the time is now and Fashion 2.0 has arrived, complete with computerized dresses, digital textiles, and even more handy devices like Google’s new Google Glass.

Digital prints that serve as bar codes, 3-D design solutions, accessories that compute — fashion is embracing today’s technology in a big way

From digitally printed textiles to stylish tech gadgets and even wearable computing, the ever-growing partnership of fashion and technology is catapulting the design world into a whole new dimension.

Evidence was everywhere at the New York fall-winter 2013 fashion presentations in February — from models tweeting as they walked the runway at the end of the Kenneth Cole show to Vivienne Tam’s “propaganda print” dresses bearing a pattern that incorporated QR barcodes, readable by scanners to link back to Tam’s Facebook page. (Read More)