LG flaunts its stretchable shows on the catwalk

LG’s stretchable shows that we first saw at CES 2023 have made a brand new public look at a vogue present, the corporate announced. The tech — which LG now calls Stretchable — appeared as a part of clothes and bag ideas at 2025 Seoul Vogue Week.

The shows had been added to the entrance of clothes, sleeves and clutch luggage designed by Korean designers Youn-Hee Park and Chung-Chung Lee. “We have now been capable of design future vogue ideas with new supplies which have by no means existed earlier than,” Park mentioned.

Stretchable shows will be pulled, bent and twisted, in order that they go a step farther than the bending and twisting shows utilized in foldable smartphones. To make them extra supple, LG constructed the substrate materials from a silicon just like that utilized in contact lenses, with microLEDs smaller than 40-micrometers for the sunshine supply. LG notes they are often stretched from 12 to 14 inches or about 20 p.c.

Versatile wearable tech has been a a lot researched function for vogue and even issues like invisibility cloaks. South Korea’s authorities created a nationwide challenge to check their business potential for brand spanking new forms of wearable tech throughout a number of industries. The primary problem has been to make it extra like cloth as an alternative of stiff plastic, however LG appears to have not less than partially cracked the issue.