Robotic arms mixed 3D printing, laser cutting and weaving to create a circular dress reside during Dutch trend designer Iris van Herpen’s Spring Summer season 2016 present.
Van Herpen – a pioneer of 3D-printed couture – presented her Quaquaversal ready-to-dress in collection for Spring Summer time 2016 during Paris Fashion Week, earlier this week.
In the course of the display, actress Gwendoline Christie – best recognized for her role in Tv drama Game of Thrones – lay on a circular plinth that was surrounded by three robotic arms.
The robots have been covered in a spiky material that was “grown” employing magnets by designer Jólan van der Wiel, who has previously collaborated with Van Herpen to produce dresses and footwear utilizing the very same technique.
As Christie lay nevertheless, the programmed arms worked to kind a garment around her by combining a variety of manufacturing methods – “interlacing an architectural mesh which rays out about her”.
“The reside approach blends diverse tactics – laser cutting, hand weaving and 3D printing into one particular dress, which spreads from the centre, quaquaversal in its geometries,” said a statement from van Herpen.
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The shape of the dress, which ultimately splayed outward in all instructions, gave its name to the collection’s title.
Van Herpen showed one more circular dress made from metal gauze as element of her Autumn Winter 2015 range, while her preceding collections have incorporated a assortment of 3D-printed garments, as well as models suspended in vacuums between plastic sheeting.
The designer said that her influence for this newest assortment came from the tree bridges of India – manufactured from banyan tree roots that were shaped and coerced by man to span across rivers and gorges.
“The lovely potential of plants and other organisms to form residing architecture inspired me to make a collection that is tangled like a maze close to the entire body,” mentioned Van Herpen.
“Inspiration came from the way plants and their roots expand, and how roots have been utilised to expand living bridges in the forests of India.”
“This tradition of increasing bridges inspired me to re-envision my process of producing a garment,” she added.
Roots also influenced the shapes of 3D-printed shoes that van Herpen previously created in collaboration with United Nude founder Rem D Koolhaas.
Different kinds of lace were utilised to produce other garments in the collection, which includes a fine natural material from Calais, a graphic maze-like design, and leather embedded with ceramic stones from crystal brand Swarovski.
The colour scheme was constrained to white, nude, grey, silver and black tones.
This extended to the shoes, named Airborne and developed in collaboration with Finsk. They featured a thin platform to generate the illusion of the wearer being suspended over ground.
Also during this season’s Paris Fashion Week, Hussein Chalayan utilised a catwalk shower to dissolve a pair of soluble outfits and Akris based mostly its collection on architect Sou Fujimoto.
