Nacida en 1981 en Argentina, en un pequeño pueblo cerca de Buenos Aires. Su pasión por el arte comenzó a temprana edad, pero no fue sino hasta finales de sus veinte años, después de graduarse en economía, que decidió dedicar su vida a la fotografía.
Estudio fotografía de moda, dirección de arte y paisajes en diferentes lugares, incluido el Instituto del prestigioso Teatro Colón. Y su influencia proviene principalmente de pinturas clásicas.
Romina comenzó en la fotografía de moda, pero se fue trasladando gradualmente a Bellas Artes, aventurándose más allá de la fotografía, en las técnicas mixtas. Sus obras están representadas por galerías en el Reino Unido, Suiza y Bélgica, y se han exhibido en las principales ciudades como Nueva York, Milán, Londres, Zurchi, PArís, Bruselas y Buenos Aires, entre muchos otros.
Dueña de un estilo pictórico propio, es muy conocida por sus anacronismos y el uso del absurdo y la ironía para abordar cuestiones modernas. El intento de dar un aire fresco al estilo clásico es otra característica importante en su trabajo.
The Moon Berlin garments feature tiny LED, or light-emitting diode, bulbs. They are attached to an electrical circuit imprinted on a soft, rubbery material that can be added directly to fabric or placed between a garment’s main material and its lining. While the arrangement may sound cumbersome, the circuits are so flexible they can even be attached to silk, chiffon and satin, the engineers say.
One thin circuit wire leads to a credit card-size battery that is three millimeters, or one-tenth of an inch, thick, rechargeable and low-energy. It is concealed in a fabric pocket somewhere on the garment and can power the lights for 8 to 10 hours.
Some lights even will sparkle, responding to a sensor that detects the wearer’s movement, and others dim or brighten according to levels of light. Oh, and the garments are washable.
The initial 23-piece collection, which can be ordered from Moon Berlin online, ranges from a little black dress with lights twinkling through a cowl draped at the back to a sleeveless white silk shirt featuring the lighting circuit as though it were a graphic print. Prices are €2,000, or $2,750, for a gown; €1,000 for a silk shirt.
The Climate Dress is made of conductive embroidery, over hundred of tiny LED lights inserted into the embroidey, a CO2 sensor and an Arduino Lilypad microprocessor. The LEDs visualize the level of CO2 in the nearby surroundings and are powered trough the embroidery!
For The Climate Dress we used soft conductive thread that has a similar consistence to the kind of thread used for traditional and industrial embroidery production. This way it is possible to make embroidery that become more than an esthetical element in clothing and interior textiles.
The embroidery becomes functional conveying electricity and computer information and thereby give "power to the dress". The dress senses the CO2 concentration in the air, then accordingly creates diverse light patterns varying from slow, regular light pulsations to short and hectic. The technology, which integrates ”soft circuits” into the production of embroidery, is an innovative process. It is the result of a fruitful collaboration between Copenhagen based design studio diffus, Swiss embroidery company Forster-Rohner, the Danish research-based limited company Alexandra Institute and finally the Danish School of Design.
Credit:
Concept an production: Diffus Design (Hanne Louise Johannesen and Michel Guglielmi).
Fashion Design: Tine Jensen
Technique: Alexandra Institute and innovation network Infinit.
(Rikke Koch, innovation consultant / Jerker Hammarberg, R&D Engineer / Jesper Nielsen, R&D Engineer).
Embroidery: Forstner Rohner AG.
(Jan Zimmerman)
Sewing: Karin Eggert Hansen and Marija Andonovska
With the participation of the Danish Design School:
Students: Anakarin Lundgren, Carolin Gresbach, Liza Frederika Åslund, Maya Fabrin Born, Nancy Kaiser, Natascha Heller, Sarah März.
Hais stylist: Morten Kongsbak (Agence Scoop Models)
Model: Anne Sophie Fioritto Thompsen (Elite Models)
Photography: Anni Lauesen
