Here’s the new fashion

Anyone who sees firsthand the multimaterial, multicolor, high-resolution capabilities of high-end PolyJet 3D  printing immediately begins imagining the creative possibilities offered by this most advanced polymer 3D printing process. This is especially true for the future of customizable clothing. While experimental use of 3D printing – and PolyJet 3D printing specifically – for artistic and even wearable products has existed for nearly a decade, real end-use applications, even in the highest-end design and fashion products are still rare. That’s no longer the case. 

With the SSYS-2Y22 Reflection Collection, the brainchild of Naomi Kaempfer and Boris Belocon, PolyJet 3D printing is entering the world of high fashion and luxury consumer products. With it comes a new Stratasys 3D printer, the J850 Tech Style, developed specifically for printing on textiles and the ability to create consumer products that cannot be made in any other way.

“Boris Belocon and I have been working closely since 2014,” Naomi Kaempfer, Art, Design, and Fashion Director for Stratasys, told 3dpbm when we meet her on the first day of their Milan Design Week launch event, at the Superstudio+ space in Zona Tortona. “He is the engineer that connects the creative world to the machines.”