Fashion Week designer Sinead Gorey has collaborated with a mobile manufacturer to create The Phonecore Collection. This includes ‘Screen shades’ – sunglasses with vertical frames and lenses shaped like a mobile phone.
There’s also the ‘Mobile backpack’, a 3D-printed mini backpack designed solely for carrying a smartphone. The semi-transparent backpack takes the popular mini bag trend and puts the phone front and centre.
The ‘Phonecore belt’ is a toolkit-style accessory featuring a pouch for your phone, making it a practical addition to any outfit.
Lars Silberbauer from Human Mobile Devices (HMD), which partnered on the project to launch its new HMD Pulse Pro device, said: “We are so excited to unveil this unique Phonecore collection designed by Sinead Gorey. People no longer want their smartphones to only be state-of-the-art pieces of technology but also to be fashion statements.”
“The device has a distinctive normcore revival aesthetic that makes it a great accessory to any wardrobe. It also represents affordable luxury, as we don’t believe that quality should be out of reach for anybody.”
The items in the HMD x Sinead Gorey ‘Phonecore’ collection are designed to complement a wide variety of clothing and other fashion ‘cores’. The colour-blocking of the items particularly suits the normcore 2.0 aesthetic and monochromatic outfits.
Fashion designer Sinead Gorey stated: “Our Phonecore collection perfectly demonstrates the coming together of tech and fashion. Each accessory boasts a 70s space age future feeling with art-deco references and modern technology at its heart.”
“For me it’s clear the intersection of fashion and technology is only going to lead to more industry innovations with wearable accessories at the forefront.”