Fashion

3D Printing your Fashion

• The fashion industry has also integrated additive manufacturing technologies into the production of high-tech clothing, footwear, and more. Both fashion students and professional fashion designers are utilizing additive manufacturing to produce clothing with complex shapes and unique materials.
• Most of these creations are much more than a simple garment. Take a look at the Kinematics Dress for example, a 3D printed system created by Nervous System and Shapeways. The dress is composed of an impressive 2,279 unique triangular panels, 3,316 hinges, and was 3D printed as a single piece. By using 3D scanning technology, these types of garments can be tailor made to fit the body of users, expanding fashion capabilities further than they’ve ever gone before.
• Today’s 3D printing technologies are advanced enough to easily produce shoe soles and jewelry, but it’s still a relatively challenging process to 3D print a dress or a jacket.
• An exciting future is emerging with 3D printing technology.Earlier, it only dealt with prototyping but now it is expanding its applications, one such is fashion designing.
• Many fashion designers pushed their limits using 3D printing.Coming years ,we can print our own dress with our own design says fashion designers just like music which has become digital.
• Designers use 3D scanners for measurements in z axis and they print in xy axis.They assemble it later.
• Van Herpen was the first designer to send 3D-printed couture down the runway, beginning in 2010. Since then, 3D-printing has become one of the burning tools in the fashion industry. Major designers are creating geometric cutout gowns, stiff and shiny trims and garments that resemble skeletons.
• These innovations are mostly for runways, though a few have filtered into ready-to- wear
• Filaments like TPE,Filaflex are mostly used.

The growth of 3D printing technology is exemplified in the recent collaboration between the 3D printing start-up Carbon and the sportswear company Adidas. Adidas is using Carbon’s revolutionary CLIP technology to print at an exceptional scale and speed, allowing them to produce over 100,000 pairs of sneakers by the end of 2018.

Other major footwear companies have also throw their hats into the ring, including New Balance, Under Armor, and Nike. Outside of athletics, 3D printing technology is also being used to create products for orthotic purposes. Companies like SOLS and Wiiv are providing customers with increased comfort and support through their 3D printed insoles.

 

Advantages:

• Minimal waste production
• Cruelty-free
• No hard hand work
• Digital prototyping

Fashion Accessories which can be 3D Printed :

• Dress

• Shoes

• Bracelets

• Necklace

• Earrings