Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht has taken
fashion to a shocking new level: She recently donned a custom-built metallic
dress and zapped herself with nearly half a million volts of electricity. The
stunt came about when she met ArcAttack, a band that makes music with giant
Tesla coils. Together they decided to craft a shockproof costume for an
upcoming show. Wipprecht built a spiked helmet and plate-metal dress and
secured them over a head-to-toe suit of chain mail. For extra flair, she hacked
toy plasma balls into shoulder ornaments. “Normally I work with fashion
models,” Wipprecht says. “But this time, nobody else wanted to wear it.” When
she walked between Arc-Attack’s Tesla coils at Maker Faire this May, Wipprecht
remained unscathed. Her garment safely conducted the coils’ electrical bursts
around her body and into the ground while lighting up her shoulders with
tendrils of purple plasma.
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