NYC Designers Create ‘Drone-Proof’ Clothing
Stealth burqa (Photo: Adam Harvey / ahprojects.com )
New York-based designers Adam Harvey and Johanna Bloomfield have created a range of clothing to counter surveillance by thermal imaging.
They hope that their pieces of silver-lined outerwear, including a hoodie and a burqa, will draw attention to a growing culture of surveillance at home and abroad.
The World’s Alex Gallafent checked it out.
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