2014年12月10日
Nervous System’s dress breaks 3D printed fashion
Nervous System’s dress breaks the mold for 3D printed fashion
At a 3D printer fashion show I attended earlier this year, most of the models looked as if they were wearing torture devices.
The fashion, such as it was, barely moved and had a habit of shifting awkwardly or, worse, breaking – one poor model had a 3D printed heel give out just as she stepped onto the runway.
A new 3D printed dress from design studio Nervous System breaks that mold.
Unveiled on Tuesday, the sleeveless, mid-length dress is different. It hangs naturally on a model's body and flows and moves like a dress made from fabric. Sure, it’s so full of holes that models have to wear body suits underneath, but the effect is one of elegance, not constraint. What’s more remarkable is that the designers, Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, printed the dress in one piece.
Rosenkrantz, Nervous System's creative director, and Louis-Rosenberg, the company’s chief science officer, explain in the video above that they came up with the idea for what they call the Kinematics Dress while trying to design a hinged bracelet that could print flat and then be folded into a wearable piece of jewelry.
Nervous System actually designed a full-sized dress on a 3D scanned model and used their own Kinematics physics simulation software to fold it into its initial – and much smaller — printed shaped. That trick made it possible for a Shapeways commercial 3D printer to print the dress in one piece.
The video of the process shows the dress emerging from the printer encased in what looks like a block of Styrofoam. They scrapped much of it away and then used compressed air to blow away the remainder of the material and reveal the folded dress, which is made of thousands of interlocking pieces that move freely. Unlike most 3D fashion, which is usually constructed of separately-printed parts, no assembly was required to make the final Kinematic garment.
The final dress, which took Shapeways 44 hours to print, has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art for inclusion in its permanent collection.
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At a 3D printer fashion show I attended earlier this year, most of the models looked as if they were wearing torture devices.
The fashion, such as it was, barely moved and had a habit of shifting awkwardly or, worse, breaking – one poor model had a 3D printed heel give out just as she stepped onto the runway.
A new 3D printed dress from design studio Nervous System breaks that mold.
Unveiled on Tuesday, the sleeveless, mid-length dress is different. It hangs naturally on a model's body and flows and moves like a dress made from fabric. Sure, it’s so full of holes that models have to wear body suits underneath, but the effect is one of elegance, not constraint. What’s more remarkable is that the designers, Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, printed the dress in one piece.
Rosenkrantz, Nervous System's creative director, and Louis-Rosenberg, the company’s chief science officer, explain in the video above that they came up with the idea for what they call the Kinematics Dress while trying to design a hinged bracelet that could print flat and then be folded into a wearable piece of jewelry.
Nervous System actually designed a full-sized dress on a 3D scanned model and used their own Kinematics physics simulation software to fold it into its initial – and much smaller — printed shaped. That trick made it possible for a Shapeways commercial 3D printer to print the dress in one piece.
The video of the process shows the dress emerging from the printer encased in what looks like a block of Styrofoam. They scrapped much of it away and then used compressed air to blow away the remainder of the material and reveal the folded dress, which is made of thousands of interlocking pieces that move freely. Unlike most 3D fashion, which is usually constructed of separately-printed parts, no assembly was required to make the final Kinematic garment.
The final dress, which took Shapeways 44 hours to print, has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art for inclusion in its permanent collection.
Have something to add to this story? Share it in the comments.
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