Meanwhile, the Refinery Hotel, located in a former hat factory in the Garment District, has suffused its design with nods both to the millinery and the building's Neo-Gothic exterior.

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Melissa Kit Chow, a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, designed a garment that will only fuel our Facebook addiction: Chow's "Like-A-Hug" vest gives you a physical hug whenever one of your Facebook friends "likes" your status update.

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Meanwhile, a design collective from France developed a garment that uses augmented-reality technology and evolves with its wearer in real time.

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Elvis helped design a 12-pound, blue-satin lined garment, to open and reveal a red, white and blue studded eagle.

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