Looking Outwards 03

This project is a fashion line called Voltage by Iris Van Herpen, an architect-turned-designer. The line has pieces like a “skirt-and-cape combo lined with thousands of tiny white anemone-like nodules.” It essentially is a 3D printed (on an Object Connex) and laser sintered fashion line and a frontrunner of digital fabrication. What I find most interesting about the garments she made are that they have a mix of both soft/flexible and hard/structured elements. This varying of the softness and elasticity allows the clothes to have differing forms and ranges of motion. I assume that the process of production and the algorithms used are related to CAD, or computer-aided design, to make templates that can be used to make 3D models.

Iris Van Herpen’s Voltage , 2013

Video of Voltage line : YouTube video of Van Herpen’s full line