Image from an early Madsen patent A Dane named Borge Madsen was actually trying to create a new kind of zipper for clothes in the 1950s and had several patents on the technology. The Madsen zipper ...

Illustration from a project at uni where I created garments from zippers. I made samples of the material, scanned them and used them as backgrounds for the illustrations.

Zippers are incredibly commonplace artifacts ... Howe was never able to make his “Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure” a workable product, and Howe shifted his inventive energies to ...