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Part 1: The challenge of making fashion outfits from the 3D printer
Of the numerous projects that we have been able to realize together with our customers over the past few years, 11 stand out in particular. We would like to bring this closer to you in the course of the coming week.
First of all, we would like to tell you about our fashion 3D printing projects.
Award-winning: The 3D printed skirt for Marc Cain
An additively manufactured skirt that we designed for the fashion label in 2014 proved to be a particular success Marc Cain could produce. In concrete terms, this involved 3 models of a skirt composed of 1320 elements, some of which were movable. The material for this model was the nylon-like plastic PA (=polyamide) 2200. We used selective laser sintering (also known as SLS printing) for the 3D printing process, which is probably the most common additive process.
The 3 skirts from our 3D printers, made for Marc Cain.
At Printstars 2014, this 3D printing project was finally awarded the silver prize in the “3D printed products” category (awarded for the first time at the time). This innovation prize was awarded on September 18, 2014 in the Stuttgart Liederhalle.
3D printing at Fashion Week: The golden dress for Pia Hinze
Also in 2014, another fashion project made by us even made it to the New York Fashion Week (February 12-15, 2014). Specifically, it was the gold-colored dress “Muted”, which we created for the Munich-based designer Pia Hinze had made. We also used selective laser sintering for the dress.
Incidentally, Pia Hinze herself described this dress as “neo-baroque”. It was inspired “both by the limitless possibilities of 3D printing technology and by the opulence of baroque architecture”. Incidentally, 3D Activation praised Pia Hinze in this context as a “great German company” that had helped her wonderfully to realize her visions.
In addition to New York Fashion Week, “Muted” also appeared at fashion shows in Kork, Vienna, Saint Petersburg, Budapest and Athens between 2013 and 2015.
The 3D printed dress “Muted”, made by us for Pia Hinze.
Nylon meets silk and wool
On the other hand, the 3D printed dress that we designed for Alexa Chan, then (2014) a master’s student at the London College of Fashion. Alexa Chan’s basic idea for this project was to use 3D printing to combine a “technical” material such as nylon with the natural materials of silk and wool. Selective laser sintering was also used for this design project under the title “ENKÉPHALOS”.
Alexa Chan’s dress “ENKÉPHALOS”, from our SLS printers.
The shoe for the Deichmann competition
As early as 2013 we had a shoe printed in SLS for the well-known manufacturer Deichmann on the occasion of a competition for their 100th anniversary. Specifically, it was a draft that the Czech designer Lenka Markova had largely made by us. Markova took part in the aforementioned Deichmann competition with this design and won one of 5 prizes.
Sketch of the 3D printed shoe for the Deichmann competition.
Read about more of our 11 most exciting 3D printing jobs soon.
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