LG Display has presented its stretchable displays, which can be stretched, folded, and twisted, at the 2025 Spring/Summer Seoul Fashion Week at Dongdaemun Design Plaza. The displays were part of clothing and bag concepts being unveiled.
LG Display first showed its stretchable prototype in 2022, the displays can extend from 12 to 14-in while maintaining a resolution of 100ppi, at the level of a regular monitor, and a full color spectrum.
Allowing designs and colours to shift, the company's stretchable displays featured on the front of garments, sleeves, and clutch bags crafted by Korean designers Youn-Hee Park and Chung-Chung Lee.
“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 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 effect everyday life by enabling an era of IT devices that can be comfortably worn like clothes or attached to the body.
LG Display 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.