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Living Lorels brings textiles to life—creating interactive objects that exist at the intersection of wearable design and interior decor. The project is a collaboration by Atelier Mlou and Loe Feijs that explores the intersection of traditional textile craftsmanship and responsive technology.
Concept
Living Lorels explores textiles as soft, responsive interfaces. They sense, react, and invite us to rethink fashion and interior design.
At the heart of the project is the question:
How can we move away from fast fashion and create deeper, long-lasting relationships with the textiles we wear and live with?
Lorels are not just decoration. They are tools to explore how textiles can respond to us and transform our environment.
Living Lorels offers a holistic view of textiles — connecting textiles in architecture and interior design with garment design and the human body. The project makes invisible connections between us and the world tangible.
Lorels
Lorels are hand-pleated, magnetic textile objects. You can wear them on your body or place them in your home. Each Lorel has its own character, shaped by folded textiles, moulded in colourful, organic forms.
Because of the magnetic system, you don’t store them away in your closet — they become living pieces in your home.
Beauty and Technology
Lorels combine old and new. Traditional hand pleating and smocking meet magnetic systems and responsive tech. The result: sculptural textiles that move, shift shape, and interact with their surroundings.
Want your own collectable? The Baby Lorels, small textile jewels, are available at the shop in the Fashion Tech Farm during Dutch Design Week.
