The Designer Making Wearable Tech That Feels Chic, Not Gimmicky

When she was in fashion school at Parsons, the only relationship Olya Petrova Jackson had was with her phone. Well, that’s not precisely true. She was, she recalls, “a hard-core studio kind of person” who spent her days and nights experimenting with fashion design. She was also falling in love, long distance, with her now-husband, and the screen of her iPhone stood in for the intimacy of many face-to-face conversations.

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