New fashion trend: Ink couture?

Fabric markers give a black and white dress new life.

(Credit: Sander Marsman)

(Credit: Sander Marsman)

Normally, it would be contraindicated to take a marker to your dress. Not so with Color-in-Clothing, which you'll actually want to mark up. That's the way you give it color and infuse it with your own sense of style.

The customizable garb is the result of a collaboration between Dutch fashion designer Berber Soepboer and Dutch graphic designer Michiel Schuurman.

We're waiting to find out if and where the striking dress in the photos can be purchased, and if you can safely remove the markings if you're considering a whole new look.

Do note that you'll want to use a fabric marker rather than, say, a highlighter pen or your kids' crayons. Just be sure to color inside the lines--or not, if that's more in keeping with with your fashion aesthetic.

(Update 9:59 a.m. PDT: Soepboer tells us the dress isn't yet available for purchase, but should be soon. We'll keep you posted!)

(Via InventorSpot)

[Carrick1973]

Really cool idea as a concept. I doubt it would move in the market however, because it either needs permanent markers to not run in the wash and rain, or temporary markers, but those don't really get out 100% so you would end up with a dull tie-dye look after a wash. The dress by itself is way cool though and would move well if put on the market.

[TechCount]

Reminds me of those fuzzy drawings I used to color in as a kid... Again (as Carrick1973 stated) cool concept, but I dunno if it would work in the wild

[tek-ed]

So, they categorize this as "art". This basically means it will cost a bunch of money. <br />And you then need to spend hundreds of hours coloring in all the spaces... <br />So their target market is the idle rich? <br />I don't know about you, but I don't have hundreds of dollars for an article of clothing, and I certainly don't have hundreds of spare hours to color in a dress. So I guess I'm not the target market for this. <br />Ed <br />web/gadget guru

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