Techno Textiles: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design

  • Sarah E. Braddock &
  • Marie O'Mahony
Thames & Hudson, £16.95

It took the artists Christo and Jean-Claude 24 years to develop the “Wrapped Reichstag” project (shown above). Mountaineers worked to cover Berlin's Reichstag with 100,000 square metres of silvery polypropylene secured with 15,600 metres of blue rope. It was finished in June 1995 and dismantled two weeks later. Christo rubs shoulders with fashion designers, textile artists, electroacoustic clothing and more in Techno Textiles: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design by Sarah E. Braddock and Marie O'Mahony (Thames & Hudson, £16.95).