3D printed Hermes belt buckle

3D printed Hermes belt buckle for sale on Shapeways. Definitely not a good idea. Designer can expect a cease and desist or a lawsuit if this comes to the company's attention. Hermes is very agressive when it comes to protecting their brand and products.

Iris van Herpen: 'Everybody could have their body scanned and order clothes that fit perfectly'

Fashion designer and 3D printing pioneer Iris van Herpen tells us how printing and scanning technologies could transform the fashion industry in an exclusive interview for DeZeen's print-on-demand publication Print Shift.

The 60-page, advert-free publication explores advances in 3D printing across a range of topics including fashion, food, design, architecture and even medicine, weaponry and archaeology.

London designer Ron Arad's 3D printed eyewear

London designer Ron Arad has created a range of 3D-printed spectacles and sunglasses for eyewear brand pq. De Zeen Magazine reports.

Speaking to Dezeen yesterday at the launch in Milan, Ron Arad explained: "The brand wanted to advertise the fact that it's printed but I said let's not go on about it. But it's printed. It's the first pair of glasses that I know about that is one piece of material; it's monolithic. It's polyamide."

Each style is name after a station on the London Underground's Northern line.

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New Materialise Material – Used in Iris Van Herpen’s Dress

The Belgium based 3D printing company Materialise, have just released their new Laser Sintered material called TPU 92A-1. This material is flexible with several unique properties, combining durable elasticity with high tear and dynamic loading resistance. This material was used in the 3D printed dress designed by Iris van Herpen, which was showcased in the recent Paris Haute Couture show “Voltage”.

[via 3D PrintingIndustry].

The future. Making clothes at home with a 3D clothing printer

Industrial designer Joshua Harris's future concept is a 3D clothing printer to manufacture our clothes at home. 3ders.org reports.

To print a piece of clothing, you would first shop from an online marketplace of designs and download the outfit of your selection. In addition you need to buy a cartridge of thread, from a company or a designer. Then you can just print it out on your own 3D printer. The most interesting feature is, when you want something new, you just feed the clothes back into the machine. Clothing can be loaded back where it is broken down into thread and cleaned. The thread is returned to its cartridge for future use, cutting out the whole shipping and distributing costs and waste.

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New Balance customises running shoe with 3D printing

New Balance, much like Nike a couple of weeks ago — which announced having 3D printed cleats, has brought 3D printing into the manufacturing process — at least for one of its highly customized running shoe designs. 3D PrintingIndustry reports.

Athletes are measured and monitored using 100 sensors to understand their precise running style. The data gather is then used to make a custom spike plate for their running shoes

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The World’s First Fully Articulated 3D Printed Gown

Watch video of this 3D printed gown — designed by Michael Schmidt Studios in collaboration with Francis Bitoni Studio and Shapeways — for burlesque star Dita Von Teese.

According to 3D PrintingIndustry, "The gown is composed of articulated joints that expand and contract with the undulations of the body".

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Iris van Herpen Ready-to-Wear at Paris Fashion Show

Lady Gaga favorite and Dutch designer Iris van Herpen presented her new ready-to-wear line on the runway at Paris Fashion Week today, tweeted live with pics by @MaterialiseNV.

You can view a preview of the collection and read a write up by BlouinARTINFO. And another slideshow here, from the Examiner. Update Pictures from the runway now available on NowFashion.

Van Herpen has attracted attention from the tech world for her experiments with 3-D printed designs. Her 3D-printed dresses made Time magazine's top 50 inventions of 2011 and her collection has been the subject of an exhibition at the Groninger Museum in Groningen, the Netherlands. As Smart Planet explains:

Her process begins by sketching clothes via Photoshop instead of on paper, and then she collaborates with engineers at the Belgian additive manufacturing company Materialise –whose other collaborators tend to be biomedical, orthopedic, and industrial companies.

More on 3D printed tech couture on the runway at Fashion Week Paris from VentureBeat and Core77.

3D Printed Dress – The Video and Interview, on the Catwalk, Paris Fashion Week posted by Stratasys

MIT Designer Creates 3D Printed Clothing Inspired By Mythology & Biology

Neri Oxman, a design professor at MIT, explored how myth could be translated into a working, new technology. She and her colleagues spent five years researching and designing clothing that augmented human capabilities.

Using the upcoming technology of 3-D printing, a creation that Oxman calls a “paradigm shift,” the team designed the show Imaginary Beings: Mythologies Of The Not Yet with 18 prototypes that were on display at Paris’ Centre Pompidou last summer.

[via PSFK]

A 3D Printed Tie

Printed in house at Cubify. Would you wear it to your best friends wedding?

3D printing used to create high end fashion frames for eyeglasses

High-end eyewear designer Mykita is now offering a line of glasses called “Mylon” created using a 3D printer. Geek.com reports.

The process used to manufacture the glasses is called Selective Laser Sintering (SRS), a sophisticated form of 3D printing that allows for the use of many different types of materials, from nylon to steel.

Obviously, the only thing that is printed is the frame. Using 3D printers to create prescription lenses is not yet possible. However the ability to create customized frames is something that could really shake up the eyeglasses market.

Read full article. via eyespectacle.

3D-Printed Shoes: The Next Step In Fashion?

At Mass based fashion company Continuum Fashion, Jenna Fizel and Mary Huang have recently 3D printed a line of shoes.

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[via Here & Now]

Click here for a A Gallery of 3D Printed Shoes courtesy of 3D Printing Industry.

Bjork’s favorite fashion designer 3D ‘prints’ couture clothes

Iris van Herpen, a 27-year-old Dutch designer is daring experiments with 3D printing techniques and pushing fashion in dynamic new directions. SmartPlanet reports.

Van Herpen’s clothes–like the exquisite shirt shown above, from her 2011 “Escapism” collection–are so artful that they are the subject of an exhibition at the Groninger Museum in Groningen, the Netherlands.

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3D-Printed Bikini

Made by Ecouterre, the N12 bikini, complete with components and closures that snap together without sewing.

[via Ecouterre]