Waldemeyer Refashions World of Rock Costume Design
November 28, 2007 | Levent OZLER
Rising star of modern design, Moritz Waldemeyer, is collaborating with the quirky kings of Geek Rock, OK Go, to fashion a new kind of stage performance.
The band recently approached Waldemeyer to design the costumes for their latest performance, and his solution quite literally lights up the stage - thousands of LED lights, stitched into the jackets of the four performers, will turn each of them into a moving light show.
Waldemeyer's inspiration was the flickering lights of the slot machines in the casinos of Las Vegas.
The result is a dazzling innovation in stage costume design, a knowing fusion of glitz and capitalist kitsch that perfectly reflects OK Go's own synthesis of Power Pop and tongue-in-cheek wit.
When the band appears on stage, LED lights embedded in their jackets run through a sequence that makes up the letters O,K,G,O - like a Vegas slot-machine scrolling through its symbols to spell the band's name.
more: dezeen.com/2007/11/26/ok-go-stage-costumes-by-mori (769)
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