Transformer dress by Hussein Chalayan.

Hussein Chalayan is known as fashion’s big thinker. From his endlessly whirring mind come future-gazing garments that transcend the runway and live outside trend. Voguedeclared his spring 2007 show, in which metal animatronic dresses rapidly morphed through more than a century of silhouettes, a moment of pure magic. And magic is what we’ve come to expect from this technology-obsessed conjurer whose designs continually challenge any received notions of what fashion can be.