3D printed fashions take to the catwalk
Two 3D printed dresses shown on the catwalk at the ongoing New York Fashion Week used a new 'Nano Enhanced Elastomeric Technology' material due to launch later this year, which is said to represent a big step forward for 3D printed fashion design.
Designers ThreeAsFour and Travis Fitch created the dresses using the Objet500 Connex3 multi-colour, multi-material 3D printing technology from Stratasys.
"Having the capability to vary colour and rigidity in a single piece inspired us to explore flexibility, depth and transformation as inherent design objectives," comments ThreeAsFour's Adi Gil.
Gil also says multi-colour, multi-material 3D printing provides new possibilities – most notably, the ability to mix both rigid and rubber materials to any degree of flexibility, in any colour, within a single print.
One of its pieces, the Pangolin dress, is comprised of 14 pattern pieces with an overall "skin" created by mixing a variety of interlocking weaves, bio-mimicking natural animal textures.
The Objet500 Connex3 3D Printer was able to vary material properties such as rigidity and colour gradation so that the designers could produce alternating states of transparency and concealment, while accommodating the movement demands of the human body.
While few details are available about its Nano Enhanced Elastomeric Technology material, Stratasys says it has extreme flexibility and durability, and represents a big step forward for 3D printed fashion design. It is due to become commercially available later in 2016.Read more at:bridesmaid dresses
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