Just like the music, you will soon be able to download and print your favorite dress at home.
Second industrial revolution is coming!
Designers have begun experimenting with 3D printed pieces of clothing while exploring a new philosophy of sustainable fashion. You know what that means? You can very soon download your own dress.
Today the fashion industry is the third largest consumer of water, slightly behind oil and corporate paper. An ongoing environmental threat and incredibly damaging.
So what’s being done? The 3D printing box.
3D eliminates waste. 3D printing eliminated transport, packaging, material, all of which require fuel, natural resource. No need to cut fabric by meter, instead, print and ready to wear. No more scissors, threads and needles perhaps.
3D printing is not entirely new to the fashion industry, as jewelry designers have for years outsourced quick modeling jobs to printing companies.
Just like the music, you will soon be able to download and print your favorite dress at home. Imagine how that would reduce the global gas bill.
Printers are getting closer to producing good fabric-like materials, using interlocking structures to create weaves and stitches.
One of the most promising design houses, XYZ Workshop, was able to make a 100% desktop printed dress using flexible PLA for around $100 in materials (assuming you already own a 3D printer). That’s a price tag most people can handle. The kicker? The dress looks amazing and totally wearable. Oh, they also released detailed step by step instructions so people can make their own saying, “In order for us as a community to advance 3D printable fashion, we believe we can help stimulate and encourage experimentation by publicly providing the design files.” Classy move guys.
The future is coming. 3D printing will save the planet!
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FASHION SHOW IN SILICON VALLEY
WHAT IT'S LIKE
Fashion and technology are slowly but surely coming together. While fashionistas are often portrayed as really really good looking people , techies are rarely seen making statements in fashion. But, the 2016 Silicon Valley Fashion Week shows what happens when the two collide.
Designers and tech companies came together in San Francisco to exhibit their latest creations. Designed with CAD programs, extruded from 3D printers, controlled with smartphones or drones, lit with LED lights, each piece incorporated modern technologies. Check out the gallery below to see some of the most jaw-dropping examples from the show.
Tinsel modeled its new Shot headphone-necklace hybrid. Photo: Andrew Tarantola
Singer Jasmin Cruz opened the second night with her hit single and backing vocals by two Beams telepresence robots from Suitable Technologies. Photo: Andrew Tarantola
The smartphone-controlled CAT Clutch, is a programmable LED handbag. Photo: Andrew Tarantola
Heidi Lee's Echo Hat stole the show on opening night. And fully defends against people trying to sneak up on you. Photo: Andrew Tarantola
Will these things one day replace expensive models?
Great stuff for the start, but there is work and work to be done before it reaches the perfection.
"It is time for me to move on”