Dita Von Teese has unveiled the world’s first fully articulated dress produced with a 3D printer.

The gown was designed by Michael Schmidt and Francis Bitonti and revealed at the the Ace Hotel in New York.

Created with the help of Shapeways, a company which lets designers sell objects which are printed on demand with industrial-scale 3D printers, the dress is based on the Fibonacci sequence of numbers.

Shapeways said:

“The gown was assembled from 17 pieces, dyed black, lacquered and adorned with over 13,000 Swarovski crystals to create a sensual flowing form.”

It took thousands of components to fit the dress perfectly to Dita’s body, the company added.

In 2009, Phillips Design  presented a sci-fi vision of the future with a conceptual food printer that could produce a perfectly balanced meal at the touch of a few buttons. Part of a research project called Food Probe  which looked at how we might source and eat food in 15 to 20 years’ time, the imagined machine would allow our future selves to print out our ideal combinations of flavours and nutrients in an unlimited range of forms.

It sounded too Star Trek to be true. But with 3D-printing technologies advancing as rapidly as they are, the idea may not be as far off as it once seemed.

The Wilmington Robotic Exoskeleton (WREX) gives upper body support to children suffering from musculoskeletal disabilities. The parts are individually 3D printed to fir the patient and can be replaced as the child grows.

The system was developed by the Department of Orthopedics at the Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children in Delaware. Their previous exoskeletons were built using metal and had proved too heavy for very young children to wear, until the design team used 3D printing technology to develop a new lightweight plastic version. The project demonstrates how digital manufacturing technologies are benefitting patients with individual medical care solutions. Four-year old Emma Lovelle suffers from arthogryposis, a congenital disorder that limits limb movements. She describes her plastic exoskeleton as her ‘magic arms’ and as she grows a new set can be printed to match her unique body shape.

Designed + Manufactured by: Tariq Rahman and Whitney Sample of Nemours/Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, USA with help from Stratasys Ltd.

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The fashion digital studio is filled with geniuses who are incredibly in the know.

(Think Mashable and Dezeen with a bit of Style.com plus Vogue UK)

The design services available at the university are as follows:

Technology consultancy (which they do for massive global brands)
Concept development and design services
Digital technology innovation
Production and manufacturing consultancy
Digital manufacturing expertise
Prototyping and sampling in 2D and 3D
Demonstration, evaluation, and certification

Who knew that one of the think tanks of the newest up and coming technologies are available to us right in the heart of Oxford Circus on LCF John Princes Street Campus?

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Here are just some of the brands the studio has worked with

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Background: www.futureprintfashion.com is a pilot website where fashion and technology merge. This rare blend is often touched upon, but never thoroughly. Through this website those involved in the fashion and technology world can investigate the future of 3D Printing in Fashion, Prototyping, production, and the art of hand-made goods through forums, videos, and blog content.

Users can follow the FuturePrintFashion (FPF) Collective on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr.

Summary: Futurefashionprint.com (FPF) prides itself on being the go-to platform for the incipient fusion of technology and fashion. Through images, interviews with world-reknown technological geniuses, scientists, engineers, fashion designers, curators, creators, artists, architects, and more, the FPF platform will provide an insight to promote creativity and debate as the global authority on the future of fashion innovation and design using 3D techniques.

The foundation of the pilot site is three videos investigating the future of 3D Printing in fashion that explores whether the technology can make or break the industry. Using various clips and videos with distinct journalistic and artistic style, FPF aims to be the trusted site amongst the fashion and tech set, with up to date information in the fast-paced media world. With FPF’s unique innovative forum and blog following the escapades of the team behind the site, FPF provides image galleries, industry Q&A, and social media content. Using social media and an intrapersonal aesthetic into the investigations of technology, FPF is unique in that it can communicate with much of its audience on multiple levels.

Futurefashionprint.com prides itself on being the go-to platform for the incipient fusion of technology and fashion.

Through the FPF’s own documentary mini series, images, interviews with world-renowned technological geniuses, scientists, engineers, fashion designers, curators, creators, artists, architects, and more.

The FPF platform will provide an insight to promote creativity and debate as the global authority on the future of fashion innovation and design using 3D techniques.

 Futurefashionprint.com prides itself on being the go-to platform for the incipient fusion of technology and fashion.

Through the FPF’s own documentary mini series, images, interviews with world-renowned technological geniuses, scientists, engineers, fashion designers, curators, creators, artists, architects, and more.

The FPF platform will provide an insight to promote creativity and debate as the global authority on the future of fashion innovation and design using 3D techniques.

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