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Kate's avatar

Love this take on longevity fashion. We were it everyday.. we might as well make it functional. ;)

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Alex Zhavoronkov's avatar

Fashion needs innovation 🤖❤️🧑‍🔬

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Neural Foundry's avatar

Love the exosomatic organ framing. The cotton critique is controverial but correct - hydrophillic fabrics in humid environments are basically bacteria farms. The graduated compression point is underrated too; I've tested similar concepts for long flights and the circulation improvment is measurable. One gap though: how do you balance biomechanical support with the social signaling aspect? Most people won't adopt stuff that screams "medical" no matter how effective it is.

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Alex Zhavoronkov's avatar

Thank you, would love to learn more about the compression experiments. On adoption - there are several ways to make this popular. One is celebrity marketing, if we see George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and other famous aged but active actors adopt the longevity couture principles and even compete on this - that's it.

Another approach is to make it part of Apple, Google or Meta ecosystems - extension of the device and service universe.

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Alexey Strygin's avatar

I'd consider spaceship uniform-like look (think Star Trek). The future should look like the future (c)

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Alex Zhavoronkov's avatar

They won't let you get into business formal events in that case

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Walter Crompton's avatar

Brilliant! There are ample reasons to dislike shallow, wasteful, exclusive "fashion" as we usually see it, but this essay blows most complaints out of the water, and replaces them with positive alternatives, many of which seem to be original syntheses.

Missing are mention of the irrational but brutally enforced customs of covering what has only unhealthful cultural bases for being covered; the benefits of limited skin exposure to cool sunlight; and potential issues with micro-plastic dust, biodegradation, and manufacturing waste.

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