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3D Printing & Fashion
ANOUK WIPPRECHT
X CHROMATIC
Designer Anouk Wipprecht Collaborates with Chromatic 3D Materials
A shining, motion-activated dress
About the collaboration
High-tech Dutch fashion designer Anouk Wipprecht and Chromatic 3D Materials have unveiled a new futuristic 3D-printed dress that responds to its environment through nearly 75 LEDs.
The motion-activated design is among the first garments in the world to directly embed electronics within 3D-printed elastomers. It highlights what the future of creative expression and social interaction may look like as humankind further integrates with technology.
ChromaFlow 70: A flexible material for 3D printing
While avant-garde, Wipprecht’s creation demonstrates the practical nature of pliable printable materials, a relatively new development in the world of 3D printing.
Compared to the exoskeleton-like quality of other 3D-printed runway creations, her new dress can easily move because it is made with ChromaFlow 70, an extremely durable but flexible, rubber-like material known as an elastomer.
A 3D MATERIAL WITH DRAPE
Garments featuring 3D-printed elastomers ChromaFlow 70 still have drape, giving them commercial potential in ready-to-wear clothing, activewear and intimate apparel.
ChromaFlow 70 is a heat-resistant material that can drape and stretch more than four times its length without breaking.
“Using Chromatic’s 3D materials to print offers numerous possibilities for the fashion industry. For designers like me, who incorporate electronics into our creations, it provides a unique opportunity of embedding and securing electronic parts within the printing process. This is my most wearable — and washable — 3D-printed dress yet!”
Anouk Wipprecht
FASHION DESIGNER
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Credits: Photography by Natalie Cartz. Model Perpetua Sermsup Smith. Make-Up Artist Yaying Zheng