SEOUL, Korea (September 5, 2024) – LG Display, the world’s leading innovator of display technologies, announced today that it is this week presenting its Stretchable displays, which can be freely stretched, folded, and twisted, at one of the world’s most exciting fashion events.
The groundbreaking displays are part of clothing and bag concepts being unveiled at 2025 S/S Seoul Fashion Week at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP).
Their appearance at Seoul Fashion Week marks another milestone after LG Display in 2022 unveiled the industry’s first Stretchable prototype that could extend from 12 to 14 inches while maintaining a high resolution of 100ppi, at the level of a regular monitor, and a full color spectrum.
Allowing designs and colors to shift from one moment to the next, the company’s Stretchable displays feature on the front of garments, sleeves, and clutch bags crafted by leading Korean designers Youn-Hee Park and Chung-Chung Lee. Models are demonstrating these concepts during runway shows on September 5 and 7.
“We have been able to design future fashion concepts with new materials that have never existed before,” said Park, the head of GREEDILOUS. “Stretchable displays will bring a new paradigm to the fashion world.”
Lee, the head of LIE, added, “Stretchable displays will have a great impact on the fashion industry by enabling the implementation of designs that previously could only be imagined.”
The unprecedented design initiative is part of a national project led by South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy with the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology to test the commercial potential of Stretchable displays, which are not only thin and lightweight but can also adhere to irregular surfaces such as clothing and skin.
Stretchable displays are therefore not only widely applicable in various industries such as fashion, wearables, and mobility, but they could revolutionize everyday life by enabling an era of IT devices that can be comfortably worn like clothes or attached to the body.
LG Display was chosen as the organizer of the national project for the development of Stretchable display applications in 2020, and has been conducting related joint research and development in an industry-academia partnership with 19 institutions. Before completing the project by the end of this year, it plans to further enhance Stretchable display capabilities, including in terms of stretchability, durability, and reliability.
“By successfully completing the Stretchable display national project, we will raise Korea’s display technology competitiveness to the next level and continue to develop products that provide differentiated customer value,” said Soo-young Yoon, CTO and Executive Vice President of LG Display.
