It was her” things new”.
The lawyer’s first-ever new-age wedding dress, the Mariana Pavani, was the result of a personalized gown that marked a great day for both the bride and fashion history as well. French designer Iris van Herpen had created the gown using a 3D printer.
” Having it worn by someone on the most specific time of her life, I think it’s definitely something else,” van Herpen said.” This was really a dream job for me, because 3D- printed styles are in museums and on runways.
The modern dress’s magical bodice covers the couple’s torso, extends across her décolletage, and wraps around her throat with skeletal elegance. The one- of- a- type cloth required 600 hours to develop, 41 hours of stamping and yielded a document size of 216.7 MB.
” There are no joints. You could not do this with a standard design”, said van Herpen, who used the software WordPress to review up the gown design.
The couturier is renowned for creating delicate mysterious pieces made of stiff, 3D-printable material. The process can take hours upon hours, but it’s for it. Her classic fall 2011 item””,, appeared in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s” People Dressing Women” show.
Pavani had several fittings for the dress below, which were hand pleated, as well as a 3D scan of her system to maintain a perfect match. The merchant strikes a balance between spacious gentleness and rigidity in the final item. Van Herpen said the bit encapsulates “femininity” with a” cutting- top vibe”.
” You have the artistic components, but also the flexibility, the action. And that is ]a ] dichotomy that I really love”, van Herpen noted.
” I definitely wanted an outcast dress, things unique”, said Pavani, who was introduced to van Herpen’s work in 2022 by her nowadays- husband, art collector and composer Roberto Toscano.
” From the beginning, I was hoping that the dress would incorporate 3D printing in its design”, the São Paulo bride added.
Van Herpen described the bride as” we both feel fashion is a form of art.” She really takes the time to express herself and to exemplify that femininity while also incorporating the influences of modern technology.
3D printing, she added, allows more room for “freedom” in fashion, opening new avenues for design since” there’s just no way that we could make that by hand”.
” I enjoy the seamlessness, and hence, the smoothness. The cleanness of it is something that I really love”, said van Herpen, who first 3D- printed a piece in 2010.
Due to “limitations on durability of the flexibility,” 3D printing in wearable clothing was largely in its infancy when it first started to become so difficult to wear. The stiffness of the materials made it nearly impossible to wear practically. Now, van Herpen said, that is not the reality.
In fact, it’s even” comfortable” to wear — and does n’t necessarily require extra care and handling.
van Herpen compared the lightweight nylon material PA 12 to the “quality of the flexible material is so, so good.” She can sit in it, and basically do anything in it without losing its flexibility over time.
When Pavani first put on the gown — which she calls” a masterpiece”— she said it “was hard to contain” her tears.
” We had achieved everything I was hoping for”, she gushed. The final design gives me a powerful and feminine feeling, and it has a very distinctive and distinctive appearance.