With this research project, I want to gain insight into future perspectives on our skin. More specifically, I am interested in how skin functions in constructing and exhibiting identity and in what ways it will relate to technology and the wearer. In my research I introduce three skins which all present new approaches to dressing the body.

To create these new skins, technology has to intervene in fashion. Therefore my research starts with explaining how the field of wearable technology is maturing, so as to learn more about creating successful products for it. In this context, I discuss the references we have to technology, how the field is structured and what new roles wearable technology can create for the wearer. This part of the research also takes the perspective of the skin and how it can become the interface of technology.

With the results of the research I present three new types of bodies I have come to recognize; The Alchemist body, The Deformist body and The Indigenist body. Also I translated the outcomes of the research into a concept product which answers the research. It is a cosmetic product that you apply and in first instance don't see. During the day it reacts to the substances of sweat, which all tell something about the status of your health.