Print me please this dress

Stratasys’s developments have shown themselves in a wide variety of fields: they help in medicine, help create murder tools, but now this company has been noted for “creating artistic images” at Paris fashion week.

Namely:

Dutch designer Iris van Herpen presented a collection of clothes printed on a 3D printer at Paris Fashion Week. The applied technology makes it possible to use different materials in one element (for example, when part of an object must have increased rigidity, and the other must be flexible). These are the two dresses with 3D effects created by Iris.


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They cannot be called avant-garde, but fashion critics were most impressed by how these costumes were created. Austrian architect Julia Kerner, Materialize from Belgium and artist Nery Oksman from Media Lab (MIT) helped the designer. After the show in Paris, "three-dimensional" dresses will be on display at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). When creating outfits, the Stratasys Objet Connex 3D printer was used, which is able to “combine” the features of different materials in one fabric. “The ability to vary softness and elasticity inspired us to develop a“ second skin ”for the body,” says Neri. According to Oksman, fashion designers got a chance to create not only the shape of the dress, but also its movement. According to the architect, now we can talk about “tech-couture”, that is, about the fusion of technology with high fashion. “I think the 3D printing process is amazing,” said van Herpen, in turn, and added that mass clothing created in this way is only a matter of time.

How does this happen?:

First, the fantastic dresses of the Dutch fashion designer are designed in Photoshop. Then Iris works with the architects to create a 3D model that is printed from the polymer during the week, and the result is a dress that represents an exact copy of the drawn sketch. Of course, not all dresses are printed entirely on a 3D printer, but each has details created using this technology. Considering that a 3D printer can print shapes only from hard materials like plastic, it is not surprising that the costumes seem stiff and not very comfortable. Unfortunately, we can only guess what they feel.

The future is already near and I hope that in 5-10 years of commercials we will be able to print out clothes to your liking.

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