gizmodo.com: You're looking at the first fully articulated 3D-printed dress. Printed off at Shapeways, the piece was designed by Michael Schmidt and Francis Bitoni specifically for burlesque star Dita Von Teese. In the future, this is the kind of clothing you might be able to get from a department store.
Sprinkled with 13,0000 Swarovski crystals, the dress is made from from 17 different pieces and 3000 joints, so it moves like a regular old dress. Von Teese debuted the dress Monday night at a private runway event, and boy, does she make that futuristic frock look good.
5 comments:
I can't help but wonder if something like this would actually be movable. What happens if you fall? I guess you could just print another one… I'm assuming that we're not including the crystals. How does one get in and out? Is it comfortable?
I have to say, this is pretty incredible in terms of the technological capabilities it would take to design all those pieces. I am working with a 3d printer as we speak, and I can say with confidence that it would take weeks just to print something like this, let alone design each piece. I saw another article on this same sort of thing, I think in wired or something. 3d printing is really picking up. I feel like soon enough we might be printing props or other things that could need replacing in theatres. Look out for this technology
This technology is really impressive, and the dress featured in this article is cool, but I don't know if I see this technology being used so much in the near future. The dress in this article was designed for a very specific person. I think that 3D printing, as of right now, would be too limited to print unique designs that women would actually want to wear in everyday life. I just don't know how realistic it is to say that these dresses will possibly soon be seen in department stores. With that said, I think this technology can possibly be used for small costume pieces for theatre and film. It may not be worth it economically to spend the time to 3D print hundreds of pieces and join the pieces with thousands of joints just for one dress. Although this technology is really fascinating and will definitely be used more prominently in our world, I do not see it taking over the fashion industry just yet.
This is honestly too much for me to handle. What... I'm amazed at what technology can do. What's great about this is if you have a really complicated design that doesn't work well with what you have you can just use this to try and simplify it. There was a dress Susan showed us during our first semester that once it was created it looked off compared to the rendering. I feel that if it had been made with a 3D printer, it would've stayed more true to form. This is brilliant and changing the world of fashion and just the world in general day by day.
Seeing this just opens my eyes to all of the amazing possiblities that 3d priniters hold for our future. I dissagree with jess, i think this technology will definietly be used in the future the more 3d priniters prices go down. this dress wouldve been incredable hard to make by hand if it were a costume. and think about how much more precise we can be now. its almost like the difference bettween hand drafting/auto cad and lazer cutting/ by hand. humans are known for error. and we are accepting of that but if there was a chance to have even less of a margin for mistake, such as a michine processed form i think people would be all over it.
This just goes to show you how far technology has gone and the potential it has to go so much father. My favorite thing about 3D printing is its versatility in printing materials, especially chocolate. I have the same questions as Chris, but I'd be incredibly impressed if it actually is comfortable and movable and is at least a little wear-resistant. I'm also incredibly impressed with how many crystals there are in this piece. Are those printed too? Were they added later? This is an amazing technological feat and I can't wait to see what other contributions 3D printing will have in the world of fashion. I'm thinking Lady Gaga's next award outfit...
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