Promising to change the way we see fashion forever, you can’t get any further ingenious than that! In the battle of the markets, Fashion once again has proven to all science and technology enthusiasts with there ‘inventions’ or anything to do with high tech in that matter; that it too can transform into different structures and advance itself into a whole new perception of seeing it. A shoe isn’t ‘just’ a shoe anymore a dress isn’t ‘just’ a dress anymore; they are both more than ‘a piece of art’ instead; they are works of genius. Stunning new designs using 3D amazed the audiences during the Couture Fashion Week in Paris Dutch designer Iris van Harpen embracing and combining a futuristic aesthetic with biology like her pair of shoes as to resemble tree trunks for example, and British designer Catherine Wales whom exhibited her work at the Design Museum with her famed chromosome corset.
It doesn’t stop there; 3D designs have also taken a whirlwind inspiration on new up and coming designers like our Island’s very own Cypriot student Fashion Designer Georgia Kkeli with her 3D inspired designs illustrating this form of creativity by adding layer by layer using the same design perspective with natural materials as if doing it digitally with 3D scanning but without the resin and rigid plastics involved. Georgia’s talents demonstrate that using the traditional technique of ‘hand-craft’ never goes out of style no matter how advanced high tech machines are. Georgia focused on the same way of movement that a 3D scan would produce the end result product, proving that there’s also the fact that not everything needs to be 3D printed. This new approach to manufacturing may be influenced by technology but of course it is without losing the skill of craft.
SarahJane Kyprianou
Fashion Columnist
