HARMONOGRAPH DRESS

Harmonograph Dress, 2016

Design by ThreeASFOUR and Travis Fitch

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Both of these 3D printed dresses form part of ThreeASFOUR’s ‘Biomimicry’ collection which explores the way in which biological forms and natural morphologies can be replicated in a fashion context with 3D printing. The 3D printed dresses were the first demonstration of Agilus30 material from Stratasys, which has extreme flexibility and durability, and represents a big step forward for 3D printed fashion design.

At New York Fashion Week 2016, Stratasys has made fashion history with two new spectacular 3D printed dresses. Created by breakthrough fashion designers threeASFOUR and Travis Fitch, the 'Pangolin' and 'Harmonograph' 3D printed dresses form part of threeASFOUR's Biomimicry collection. Both were produced with the Stratasys' Objet500 Connex3 3D Printer.

The Harmonograph dress circles around the body in three spirals, following the geometry of the Fibonacci sequence and optically portraying the effect of a harmonograph. Combining geometry, biology and logarithms. Not only were the 3D printing capabilities of the Objet500 Connex3 essential in the production of the dress, but the entire design from its initial conception was intended to maximize the potentials inherent to this technology. The interwoven nature of the geometry could not be produced in a traditional manner, and it was critical to the designers that the design should evoke a language unique to 3D printing.