Both radical and original, this costume has all the lights. There are LEDs, fiber optics and EL wires. Shared by MikaelaHolmes on Instructables a few years ago.
As a designer who is mostly interested in illuminating us all by finding new ways to use lighting in costumes, bioluminescent sea creatures are naturally a very big influence on my work. So, when Andre Mistier, frontman of electro-rock band The Adversary, asked me to design him an illuminated stage look with an aquatic theme, I was very excited. I wanted to push myself to use some new techniques and materials, so I brought on an awesome collaborator, Ashley Newton (Technorainbows) of Sustainable Magic, to help design the lighting system for the outfit. I had originally planned to use primarily el wire and a few LEDs, but Ashley suggested that I could get a similar but more interesting effect by using large diameter, side-light fiber optics instead. It was a brilliant idea. The fiber optics really took this design to a new level and allowed me to discover a material that I will certainly be using a lot more in the future.
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