Iris van Herpen | Ludi Naturae | Runway
Jan. 31st, 2018 02:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lenagurova3D Printed Dress from Iris van Herpen Pushes Boundaries of Fashion
The dress was fabricated using thermosetting polymers extruded by a 3D printer that were then exposed to ultraviolet light to set, and tulle fabric that was inserted into the printer bed during the 3D printing process. The dress could not be printed in a single pass, but was instead created in 30 x 30 cm patches that were then sewn together into a single piece. The 3D printing took 260 hours to complete and the handwork required to complete the garment added another 60 hours of work to the time needed to create the dress.
For the design of this piece, van Herpen worked with scientists from TU Delft, Jouke Verlinden and Zjenja Doubrovski, as well as a 3D printing expert, Drim Stokhuijzen from Design United, and an industrial design engineering student, Noor Aberle. This garment pushed the limits of what has been done with 3D printing in terms of the fabrication of garments.
The dress was fabricated using thermosetting polymers extruded by a 3D printer that were then exposed to ultraviolet light to set, and tulle fabric that was inserted into the printer bed during the 3D printing process. The dress could not be printed in a single pass, but was instead created in 30 x 30 cm patches that were then sewn together into a single piece. The 3D printing took 260 hours to complete and the handwork required to complete the garment added another 60 hours of work to the time needed to create the dress.
For the design of this piece, van Herpen worked with scientists from TU Delft, Jouke Verlinden and Zjenja Doubrovski, as well as a 3D printing expert, Drim Stokhuijzen from Design United, and an industrial design engineering student, Noor Aberle. This garment pushed the limits of what has been done with 3D printing in terms of the fabrication of garments.