The problem of smartphones - and their blocking the view for show goers in the back rows at fashion week - just became irrelevant.
The opening day of Paris Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2016 started things off with a reminder of technology's hands-on presence in fashion and on the actual runway.
Japanese designer Kunihiko Morinaga - known for his cerebral designs and punchy patterns - unveiled his Anrealage Spring 2016 ready-to-wear collection in a timely manner for the digital age.
Made from photosensitive textiles, Morinaga's frocks required a flash-enabled smartphone to truly experience his designs, with rows of eager fashionistas taking a photo of each model as she passed.
Only then could editors and buyers see the exquisite prints and patterns on the gowns.
Without a smartphone - and accompanying headset - the clothes in the new Anrealage collection were neutral colored - still cut in a quasi-origami fold technique at times with geometric lines adding visual depth to where prints evaded.
But camera flashes revealed lines of reflective patterns hidden in what, during natural light, looked like plain cotton or simple knitwear.
With a smartphone click, the designs changed color, becoming neon yellow or revealing chequered and diamond-shaped patterns in yellow, blue, pink and green - Morinaga's fascination with innovation explosively revealed.
Speaking with Italian Vogue last season, the Japanese designer explained his approach to technology and fashion design.
"I think that there is both a science technology and a human technology in technology. I am interested in making clothes by crossing over these two different technologies," said Morinaga.
"I think that in any age, it is important to maintain a close relationship with the technology of that specific age. Combining the technology made by man's hands and the high technology made by the latest machines may be our future task.”
“Reflect reality [to make] a new reality,” was designer Morinaga’s adage for the spring collection. And - just like the designer meant in his interview with Vogue - maintaining a close relationship with the smartphone is today's age-specific tech obsession.
But when the look steps off the runway, will women actually wear the tech-dress in normal life? To a cocktail party or summer soiree? Or is the "new reality" too trying?
It's hard to envision just now. But Millenials' soaring use of smartphones - with flash cameras - and incessant social snapping could - a few more years down the line - be the fodder that drives these tech-dresses into fashion normality.
Not wearing a photosensitive frock? Your 'normal' dress can't sit with us. Let alone, be in our photo.