Please comment on all of my social accounts b/c my dress will react to your emotions! #MetGala@IBM@MarchesaFashionpic.twitter.com/CXUKcVd8Hm
— Karolina Kurkova (@karolinakurkova) May 2, 2016
At Monday night's New York Met Gala held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the theme is Manus x Machina, and technology is hitting the red carpet. Model Karolina Kurkova revealed on Twitter that she is wearing a dress designed by fashion house Marchesa's Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig, embedded with IBM Watson technology that reacts to social media in real-time.
The dress is covered in fabric flowers with LEDs inside; as users on social media respond to the Met Gala, the flowers will glow brightly. Marchesa told CBS News there are five key emotions it will search for on social media: joy, passion, excitement, encouragement and curiosity. When it detects these emotions, the dress changes colors in real time.
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