01x08 - Functional Fashion

[bunniefuu]

Last time on Design Squad,

the teams kicked it up a notch

to build...

An automatic soccer ball

kicking machine.

...for a professional soccer

player.

Both teams had the same game

plan, so they had to turn up the

heat.

miles an hour.

We're going to be k*lling

him.

At game time, Blue Team put

on a good show, but Red Team

nailed it.

We k*lled a professional

soccer player!

And that put Natasha in the

lead for the college

scholarship.

I got really nervous when I

hit Mike in the face with a

soccer ball.

I was really confused about

how the Red Team could have won.

Today's challenge, it's

interesting.

The guys have never been all

together, and the girls have

never been all together.

We all know that girls are

better than guys.

It's not like we're putting

them down in any way, so they

can't really say that.

♪ We've got two days

to get this straight

♪ We got a challenge

just won't wait

our eyes are on the prize

♪ Two engineers

just set the date

♪ We got this client

can't be late

oh, no, it's go time

♪ Build it, test, fix it

debug now and kick it

♪ Got to get it off the ground

yeah

♪ Stick around and you'll see

what teamwork's supposed to mean

♪ It's so key

Design Squad

Design Squad Design Squad!♪

Design Squad!♪

All right, Design Squads.

This challenge, we're going

to have a battle of the sexes.

This is going to be intense.

Check out today's client.

Let's roll the tape.

Hi, I'm Josh Strickon from

Siggraph, the world's largest

conference on computer graphics

and interactive techniques,

showcasing cutting-edge

technology for programmers,

engineers, artists, even fashion

designers.

Siggraph has hosted some of the

world's most exciting fashion

shows that reinvent the idea of

clothing.

So, Design Squads, this is your

challenge.

I want you to design clothing

that goes beyond the

conventional.

The theme of this year's show is

unravel.

I'm looking for a design with a

hidden mystery, a secret,

unexpected function other than

simply being clothing.

It could be serious or silly,

big or small, but it must be

creative, novel, and inspiring.

The catch is this hidden

function must be unraveled

through a transformation, like a

skirt that becomes furniture.

And of course it must be

comfortable, stylish, and chic.

The winning design will be

modeled by one of your own squad

members alongside the world's

most inventive designs at

Siggraph's exclusive Unravel

fashion show.

Good luck, Design Squads.

See you on the runway.

Now, we'll actually be

shopping at two different stores

this week, the Garment District,

which is a thrift shop, and

Michael's Craft Store.

Do you guys have any

questions?

Why split us up now?

[ laughter]

I know nothing of clothes.

What's our budget?

Each team is going to get

$.

You can spend it in any

combination at both stores.

If you guys don't have any other

questions, strut your stuff and

start brainstorming.

I like your idea of having a

big, huge skirt and then

something really neat

underneath.

You know they have those

collapsible, like, tents.

What if we make, like, a coat

with that structure, so what you

do is, like, you take off the

coat and you, like, untwist it,

and it, like, becomes a tent?

It's just a simple tent with

a little hole in the top for you

waist.

If you unzip yourself from the

top, and you come out your

little door.

You sneak and get in it like...

Like old, like, huge hoop

skirts, like, all those, like...

and then you start, like, taking

pieces off, and it turns into

like "Hi, I'm going camping.

When I think of camping, I

think of doing little outdoor

activities, like you have your

fishing rod.

[ laughter]

If you made it look fancy on

the top, no one would even

suspect that it was a tent, and

then it's a transformation.

Fashion plus nature.

I love this, guys.

This is amazing.

[ laughter]

What's the coolest thing I

could think of?

Super heroes.

We can have clothes that give a

power.

Manly.

Manly.

There's nothing cooler than

being a super hero.

You know, and every super

hero, the whole secret identity,

they unravel to be a super hero.

We could be, like, Fire Man

and squirt water.

No, no, two water tanks, like,

on the back.

The water pack is like his

pecks, and then he just squeezes

to get the water out.

You have diaphragm pumps

underneath there.

You're a chicken that puts

out fire.

We have wings, so you can flap

the wings too.

You guys are missing the

super hero thing.

Super heroes do not flap their

wings like a chicken.

What if our costume is like

Lazy Man?

No, I don't want to do Lazy

Man.

Lazy Man.

He's got a cape, but eating's

a little dirty, so he can either

swivel it around to make it into

a bib or flip it over; it

becomes, like, this tray.

Oh, dude, his own eating

tray?

He's going to have his own

eating tray.

Because we all got a little

lazy man inside us.

I can't tell which ones are

good ideas and which ones we're

just being stupid.

This is what tent poles are

made out of.

They're carbon fiber.

Feel how light they are.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's why.

Wait, are they bendable?

A little bit, yeah.

We can buy a dress, and then

we can always turn it inside out

and sew the rods into it and

assemble it already.

Oh, okay, okay, okay.

You come out, and it's like

the dress is still sitting

there, and then it's like "Oh,

sh**t, that's a tent."

Underneath, like, all this

stuff, is the person basically

wearing...

They can wear, like, hiking

clothes and, like, just come

out.

We need to think of gadgets

that the super hero has.

You can make something that

keeps you cool, because, like,

race car drivers have, like,

tubes that go all around them,

and then they keep them cool by

just, you know, having, you

know, water inside their system.

So his super power is staying

cool in the summer heat.

Cool Man.

How are we going to pump the

water through the tubes?

We have a backpack reservoir

of water.

There's some air in the tubes.

You step on the pump, and some

of the water goes through the

tubes in the ice, and then you

step on the other pump and the

water comes back out of the

tubes in the ice.

That keeps it all cool.

That's our design.

What Noah's getting at is

called a heat exchanger.

Here's how it works.

Warm water circulating in a tube

is pumped into the exchanger.

Heat from the warm water

conducts through the tubing to

the surrounding ice water.

The water in the tube cools down

while the ice water slowly warms

up.

So when the water flows out of

the exchanger, it's ready to

cool Noah down.

These all have to be

unraveled somehow.

Glow sticks.

We walk down, and it looks

like normal clothes, and then

the lights turn off, and then

you see all these tubes going

through the clothes.

Well, I mean, I'm thinking

like a business suit.

Yeah, it's underneath the

suit.

Then you can go and then rip

off the buttons, go like...

Have a business suit tear

out, spandex, right, and then

your power is somehow unwrapped

with your spandex costume.

[ laughter]

And if nobody really wants

to, you know, have to deal with

spandex, I'll jump into it.

No, I'll do it.

I don't have a problem with

spandex.

I have spandex experience.

We might have to flip a coin

for that one.

Tails.

sh**t.

Heads.

Let it go.

Let it go.

Let it go.

Don't touch it.

Tails.

Noah's going to wear the

clothing.

Giselle's modeling.

We chose Giselle because she

really wanted to, and I had done

a challenge.

I was a driver.

Natasha was a driver.

And Kim wanted to do her tent.

So she didn't care much about

whether she modeled or not.

So we chose Giselle.

I really think that all four

of us should go to each store,

and we can find materials so

much quicker.

All right, we need a shopping

list.

Cheapest suit we can find.

Spandex shirt and pants.

We have our list.

We have our drawings.

Let's go.

You guys ready?

Yeah.

Yeah. All right.

All right.

What do you think about these

snow pants?

Snow pants are water resistant.

And the color is awesome.

You guys, I think we're going

to need another bag.

You ready to fly, captain?

Try this own.

I like the coats we have.

We should start looking for

bottoms.

Spandex pants.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Look, look, look.

It's, like, extremely stretchy.

Spandex, yeah, get that.

This has got to come.

Yeah, that's wicked awesome.

Can't wait to put Noah in

this.

I'm wearing these?

Yeah.

It's slimming on you.

You guys are horrible

teammates, by the way.

We got a lot of good stuff

while the other half of the team

is shopping at Michael's.

Oh, wow, we need lace.

This is awesome.

We need lots of pretty lace.

We should get rolls of beads.

Do you think we should get some

tulle?

Oh, is this tulle?

Ooh, yeah.

Yeah, it makes things really

puffy.

Puff, yeah, we need that.

If I can dress myself, I'm

sure I can get color

coordination right.

What did you buy?

Just a little something.

Does this make my butt look

big?

I'm going nuts with this.

What?

I couldn't hear you over that

coat.

I've been here for too long.

So, Noah, does it bother you

that the only thing we bought

was women's clothing?

Yes.

♪ Design Squad!

All right, hey, Joey.

What's up?

We have glow-in-the-dark

paint.

How about glow sticks?

And I got spools and spools

of shiny, girlie stuff.

So you guys are buying lace?

Cowbell.

All they got was, like, a

bunch of buttons, some glitter

spray, and a cowbell.

They better get glow sticks.

Hello, ladies.

Looks like you're hard at

work.

Hey, guys.

We got feathers.

We got a lot of glitter

paint.

And buttons.

Very nice.

Those are like Victorian

looking.

I like those.

We got glow paint.

Lace.

Unfortunately, we couldn't

find the exact rods that we

wanted, but we could use these

to pitch a tent if we wanted to.

They're not as flexible, but

they're flexible enough to bend

into an arch of some sort.

We can make it like a veil.

Is this a wedding gown or

what?

Giselle's getting married.

I'm going to do the tent.

So I have to the pieces and lay

them out and then sew them

together.

The top part is going to be,

like, a big job, if you ask me,

and I want to do that.

Make the bodice of it.

What's our game plan for

tomorrow?

We can finish the pants if

you guys start working on the

tubing.

The tubes.

Dude, I love this.

I'm so excited right now, you

have no idea.

Time's up, Design Squads.

That's it for day one.

I love that my team's all

girls.

We work so well together.

There's no fighting, no

quibbling at all.

We goofed around a lot in the

morning, mostly about super hero

related issues, which are

important.

Don't get me wrong.

I have three remarkably

fashionable gentlemen on my

team, and I'm not worried at

team, and I'm not worried at all.

all.

Our design, as we left it

yesterday, was a suit with tubes

in it.

Not a whole lot of

unraveling.

How can we unravel the tubes?

Here's what I came up with.

You got your business suit.

You leave work.

What do you want to do?

You want to go running.

Well, you go from working

man, to workout man.

We turn the jacket inside

out.

We have tubes, bright colors

everywhere.

It's going to blind them.

Rip off the pants, Velcro, tie

it around the waist-- classy.

We got skintight spandex

underneath, tubes all in it.

That, my friends, is the working

man to the workout man.

The super hero thing was a

great idea, but it's just too

much to do in the two days.

We had to go and kind of scrap

it and go really with what makes

fashion fashion and not just the

things that are really cool.

What do you think about the

actual working part of it, the

tubes?

We're just going to go

onstage with water already in

the tubes.

There's not going to be any kind

of pump system.

I think we should try to do a

pump system.

I think we should worry about

getting everything done, and if

we have time, we'll worry about

how we're going to get the water

in the tubes.

This is actually the shell

for the tent.

It's going to be all patchwork.

I'm scared it's going to be

really ugly, you guys, though.

Natasha, have you ever

watched a runway show?

Yeah.

Because if you have, you know

that every singe thing that

comes down the runway you would

never actually wear.

It's not supposed to look good.

It's just supposed to look like

really, like, overdone, like,

over the top, crazy, unique

stuff.

I'm going to do a puffy

sleeve.

Okay.

And then I'm probably going

to do something around the

collars.

So you want me to wear that?

No, no, no, no, no.

It's not going to look like

that.

Not just this.

We're doing things to it so

you... at first, you didn't feel

comfortable...

Don't worry about.

There's, like, blood on it.

That's not blood.

That's fuzz.

No, on the sleeves.

Look.

No, she's talking about,

like, right there.

Oh.

Is that blood, or is that

rust?

Do you not want to model?

Is that what the problem is?

No, it's just...

No, well, if you're going to

complain about everything, then,

like, maybe you shouldn't do it.

Yeah, I feel like we should

do someone that's going to be

more willing to just go the

distance.

Like, I'm fine with you doing

it, but I don't feel like you

should complain about it every

second.

I actually want to do it,

but...

I'm not complaining.

I'm just trying to understand

what we're doing, and that...

whatever, fine.

They're over there like,

"Guys don't know how to sew."

We're like, "Yeah, we do,

actually."

And I'm proud of that.

I'm proud.

I can sew, and I'm proud.

Tom may know how to sew, but

does he know how a sewing

machine works?

There's a threaded needle above

the fabric.

When the needle pierces the

fabric, a rotating shuttle hook

below catches the thread.

As the hook spins, it spreads

the needle's thread, looping it

around a threaded spool called a

bobbin.

The two threads knot and form a

stitch, holding the two pieces

of fabric together.

I think we're wasting a lot

of time just talking about it.

So we obviously didn't have a

solid design that we were going

at.

We're just sewing clothes and

talking.

No, we know what the pants

are doing.

That's what I'm doing.

I'm not sewing anything that I

don't know about.

So are the tubes going to go

through the pants too?

I thought we were going to do

the spandex underneath.

Okay, so the tubes will go in

the spandex?

Yep.

Okay.

So you guys are just going to

watch Tom sew?

Okay, okay, okay, let's get on

task.

We got one day left.

I'm going to work on

experimenting with these glitter

type things.

That is awesome.

Tom, look at that.

Do you want the breast pads

in it?

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

I'm not wearing a bathing

suit.

You can make a shirt out of it.

What did I just say?

We need to make a spandex shirt,

We need to make a spandex shirt, and we're going to make it.

and we're going to make it.

I used the women's bathing

suit, chopped it off to kind of

make more of, like, a T-shirt.

And then, from there, it's going

to attach directly to the pants

so it becomes all one piece.

We're going to have to have,

like, this makeshift needle, and

I can puncture the cloth and

weave the tube through, because

you don't want to be constrained

by the tubes.

I mean, the spandex is hugging

you as it is.

There's no engineering.

It's like sewing.

But it's still engineering,

just not the engineering we're

used to.

Do you want to try these on to

see if they fit?

[ applause]

Now tuck in the top piece

into the bottom.

Yeah, so you don't look like

a ballerina.

That is fantastic.

Wow.

I've lost feeling in parts of

my body.

Oh, my god, Noah in spandex.

No.

Oh, my god.

[ laughter]

I hate this.

I quit.

So, guys, what's our whole

situation with the rods?

The bamboo that we bought

yesterday, it's not really that

bendable.

We thought it'd be more

bendable.

Just look at it.

I mean, it's like...

We might put it in the slots

in the fabric and it would just,

like, rip the seams.

So we're going to need a new

structure.

It appears crunch time has

come early today.

Deanne and I were talking and

decided...

This has been a really pretty

tough challenge as far as trying

to get it done in the two days.

...we would give you guys a

little bit of help; we would

provide you basically one wish.

I've been working on the

suit, but it's taking up a lot

of time, and I don't really know

how to do it.

Can we have a professional

costume designer?

Some sort of flexible

structure for our tent.

How about, like, fishing

poles maybe?

Hey, guys.

Hey.

It's Parrish.

Heard I was requested for an

hour.

See, it looks great from

there, but it could use some

work in the back.

It's kind of revealing.

Yay!

Seven fishing poles just for

you.

We have a pocket right here

in the tent, and we put the pole

inside the pocket, right?

And then have the little hooks

hook here and, like, a hook up

above the top that's in the

pocket, and we attach it right

here on that first hook, bring

it down to the bottom hook, loop

it back up to the top hook, and

then come out.

If we had one here, one here,

one here, those three would come

together.

And we have these great little

cinchers from one of the coats,

so all three of the threads

would be threaded through the

cincher, and she would pull it

down and then cinch it.

So how is this supposed to

work again, Kim?

This goes up through the top

This goes up through the top one.

one.

Guys...

Inside, yeah, up there.

Bottom line, it needs to be a

lot longer.

We also need to, like, sew

them in.

Yeah, those have to be sewn

in.

That is a smaller issue than

the fact that it's not going to

be a tent.

Why not?

Because it's tiny.

It's a dog house.

You're not going to fit in it.

I'm not going to fit in it.

My dog's not going to fit in it.

So this is going to be the

shirt that goes on the inside of

your suit jacket, and then we're

going to cut this one up and

then sew it to the inside of the

jacket so it all rips off at the

same time.

I'm making it around to the

pecks.

I'm making him look manly.

Right now it kind of looks like

I'm doing it around the breast,

but...

The six-pack looks like

[ bleep].

It looks like you drew squares

on his abs.

It's six squares.

It's six squares. What's the matter with it?

What's the matter with it?

Here, put these on.

Would you stop messing around?

The pants are only Velcroed on

the side, so they're going to

roll up on the sides of the

legs.

This is how you make friends.

This is how you lose friends.

You either suck or blow, man.

You suck or blow.

What the heck are you guys

doing?

Putting glitter in our thing.

What does it look like?

You guys need super vision.

Oh, that's beautiful.

We could fasten it in one

place and be like [ imitating

ripping].

Yeah, and then she just

loosens it, and she just goes

in.

Yeah, exactly like that.

You know what?

This doesn't look that bad.

Honestly, this looks high

fashion.

We tried to build a separate

tent, but we ran into a bunch of

problems with, like, length and

height and all of that.

So what we're actually doing now

is cutting out the tent factor

of it, and we're making our

dress, with beautiful mosquito

net over it, our tent.

Right now we're putting in the

poles for the structure of our

tent inside the dress itself.

And I'm pulling.

Hold on.

Your bra came undone.

Dress me.

Shave those pits over the

weekend.

[ laughter]

So I think we decided--

correct me if I'm wrong-- to go

from business suit to jogging

suit.

I think business to jogging

is probably going to be the

best.

It's easier.

Wow.

Wow.

Whew.

Someone call the police.

This boy just stole my heart.

We sewed on little pockets to

the inside of our dress so that

our rods can sit in it and not

just be moving around.

I don't think it's going to

stay in a little pocket in the

bottom.

But I devised to use chicken

wire, which I sculpted into a

half of a circle, to attach to

the dress.

The rods can run through this

before they go into the pockets

so that it'll prevent the dress

pockets from separating.

Can someone take the rods and

cut them so that there's about

this much on there?

No, that's wrong.

Take the fabric, lay it out,

like, flat, and line the fishing

pole up so that it fits in the

fabric.

However you guys want to do

it, just get it done.

I think that it really should

be in a sleeve, because

otherwise it's just going to

move around.

An entire sleeve does the

same exact thing as if we put a

fastener here, here, and here.

Yeah, but for the dress, you

want the dress to move with the

poles.

As long as it stands and it's

a tent, it doesn't matter.

Like, if I was sewing, it'd

be easier to just run a quick

seam up and make a little pocket

inside.

If you can do that in two

seconds and cut these, I'm with

you, fine.

No, but, like, to sew things

on, like, is harder.

So we're doing the easy

thing.

That's exactly what I said.

Fine, that's what they do in

tents, but it's a lot more

tents, but it's a lot more difficult.

difficult.

Kim's taking a break.

She felt maybe a little

overwhelmed, and she just needed

a breather, so...

We really want to get this done.

We have to attach our base, with

our rods in it, to the inside of

our dress.

I'll have my briefcase, and

I'll walk out of the building,

"Hi, honey, how are you?

I'll be home in five minutes.

Excuse me."

Excuse me." Working class to working out.

Working class to working out.

We might want to, like,

Velcro the suit, like, right

around that.

Oh, nice.

I'm going to go for a jog.

I'm going to go for a jog. [ laughter]

[ laughter]

Pop it on.

All right, hold on, hold on.

Wait, wait, wait.

Put your head back.

Put your head back.

All right, you're good.

Good?

This is Josh, our client.

Thanks so much for coming out.

Thanks.

Are you excited to see some

functional fashion?

Yeah, let's bring out the

designs.

What might seem like an

ordinary, stylish, sleek

business suit is actually

anything but.

When this business day is over,

the businessman is going to have

a lot of pent-up anger and

frustration, and the best way to

get rid of this is jogging, yes?

This is why, underneath the

exterior of this business suit

is a stylish jogging outfit.

All one has to do is rip and

roll-- rip the sides of the suit

and roll them to your waist--

and voila, working class to

working out.

The skintight portion features a

water-based cooling system, and

this is the chill suit.

[ applause]

If you're an aggressive

runner, what's to keep the suit

from unrolling?

It's actually pretty good

there.

Give it a little shake there.

And as far as the tubes, is

there a pump that circulates the

water?

Before you leave the office,

you can pour ice water in there,

and that'll stay cool pretty

well.

I think I'm ready for the

next one.

All right, this is our model,

Giselle.

Today, she's a beautiful bride,

actually, on her very special

day.

Now, Giselle, she's not just any

bride.

She's a very athletic, outdoorsy

type of girl.

She loosens, slips into her tent

to change into her outdoor

apparel.

The actual tent is constructed

out of fishing rods and a

curtain so that it stands tall,

inflexible, yet she can also

borrow one of our fishing rods

to go fishing while she's

camping.

Now she's ready for the

outdoors.

Has anyone tried putting the

groom inside the tent with the

bride?

[ laughter]

They were just married.

They want to be very close and

intimate.

So it's a perfect fit for a

newlywed.

While the Red Team did

design a garment that did

combine two functions, I was a

little concerned about which two

functions they combined.

It also didn't look very

comfortable for working out.

The Blue Team, on the other

hand, created a garment that was

beautiful to look at immediately

when it walked down the runway.

It was stylish.

I had no idea what the function

was all about.

It was hidden.

It was revealed onstage.

And it looked comfortable and

wearable.

So I'm looking forward to seeing

your design on the runway.

[ cheering and applause]

Oh, my gosh.

Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.

Oh, my gosh.

I risked my manhood for that

challenge, and we didn't win.

I learned that girls help

keep the focus in the group.

Yeah.

We talked for how many hours

about super heroes?

I know, seriously.

Lazy Man was, like, an hour

all by itself.

Lazy Man was genius, though.

Lazy Man was genius.

And you didn't even like Lazy

Man.

We just knew we had to win

this one.

Yeah, we did.

We had to.

It was cool.

Think about it.

If guys would have beat us in

this challenge, there would have

been no end to the trash

talking.

I know.

They would have always been

like, "Oh, yeah?

Well, the guys beat you in a

fashion show."

Are you ready?

[ applause]

We have designers from around

the world.

First up, the attack jacket-- a

strong button push on the inside

of the jacket sends , volts

of electricity into the

attacker's body.

Next up is fashion with a hidden

agenda.

This is called wild wedding.

By designers Krishana, Kim,

Natasha, and Giselle, modeled by

Giselle.

From the Blue Team comes a

bride, an outdoorsy, resourceful

type.

Her lace blouse is made with the

lining of a wind breaker.

Her skirt is made of sheer,

triple-pleated cotton drapery.

And when she goes inside, it

ultimately transforms into a

tent, allowing her directly to

go from the wedding to the

honeymoon.

[ cheering and applause]

The tent itself is made of

fishing poles and is equipped

with a fishing vest and bait and

with a fishing vest and bait and tackle.

tackle.

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So after eight challenges,

Natasha's strutting her stuff at

the top of the leader board with

points.

All right, Deanne, here's a

new challenge: describe the

Design SquadWeb site in ten

seconds-- go.

There are games, photos, new

challenges, videos, quizzes,

scoring updates.

Time's up.

Ugh!

Just go to pbskidsgo.org.

I'm Howard Pryor.

I'm a tissue engineer and a

doctor, and I'm working on a

device to replace sick livers at

Massachusetts General Hospital.

The liver is right here, and

it's responsible, by most

people's account, for about

, different functions in the

body, and a human being can't

live without one of these.

We have to actually design a

device that will support living

liver cells.

It has to get blood in.

Blood has to come out.

What we are going to do is take

this piece of the liver out and

find all the good cells in there

and have them grow out into a

large population of cells and

put that into this device.

We're going to connect this

device to the vein that brings

all the blood from the

intestines and connect it here

to the vein that runs back to

the heart.

The blood will flow just like it

would have done if it were going

through the liver, and the cells

inside will have a chance to

process all the blood, just like

the normal liver would do.

In the United States, about

, people have liver

disease.

If this thing works, we will

make a lot of sick people

make a lot of sick people totally better.