Tuesday, 7 February 2012

3D Printed Couture: The New Look of Fashion

When Continuum Fashion (continuumfashion.com) founder and designer Mary Huang first saw a sample of a textile-like material generated using a 3D printer, her initial idea was to print a version of a dress that she’d been working on since college. Upon finding out the size of the printing boundary in a standard 3D printer, and given that just a single yard of fabric is 1,620-in.2 (36 x 45), and it takes more than a single yard to make a dress, the New York resident had to rethink her plan and come up with a design that required much less printer space, and a lot less material. She decided to go with the ultimate barely there article of clothing: the bikini.

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