The New Era of Fashionable DJs

Dutch fashion designer Maartje Dijkstra who previously wooed the fashion world with her seductive design for Studio Roosegaarde's first Intimacy dress is now challenging DJs with an interactive and high fashion approach to controlling tracks.

Her latest design called DENZIPFADEN combines fashion, music and technology in an atmospheric, baroque and dark men's outfit that allows the DJ to change the volume of your music and add samples -or anything else that you might do with a midi controller- by pulling on the six golden zippers on the suit and a bracelet. The suit is handcrafted out of golden silk/polyester wires and costume made golden zippers.

The project was developed together with DJ and electronic composer Beorn Lebenstedt (also known as Newk), who developed and improved the technology and wrote music for the suit.

Maartje Dijkstra