While clothes and fabrics with computer chips and sensors have already been created, particularly for military and technical use, the advantage of the patches lies in their versatility, re-usability and accesibility.

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She turned the fabrics and colours of rural Ireland into clothes for the rich, especially rich Americans.

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Lanvin eschewed the restrictive silhouettes of those clothes and made loose dresses for Marguerite to allow for easy movement, but she used the most luxurious fabrics silk taffeta, gold-spun lace, diaphanous chiffon and liberally embellished her designs with intricate folk-inspired embroidery, silk flowers, lace ribbons and lots of ruffles.

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