I haven't yet abandoned the idea of a sculptural dress that responds to eye-tracking by simply lighting up. I do like the approach of turning the male gaze into something beautiful, rather than casting a critical eye and hoping it will magically go away. I have gotten some feedback about some of my garment ideas being too geeky and physical computing-y, but I think there's room to create garments involve wires and LED's that are still beautiful. As such, here's something I'd wanted to try for a while - knitting with wire. (sorry for the poor photo quality)
I like the marriage of something as traditionally crafty as knitting being combined with more modern materials. This kind of knit could easily create a lattice to support LED's and other small electronic devices. With a heavier gauge, it could probably be free standing and lend itself to being sculpted very easily. At this point, I just wanted to see how difficult it would be and how it would look. This particular gauge wasn't that easy to work with, but I think the results are quite beautiful. Not sure if I'll go further with this, but it's good to know that it's doable.