Rapid Prototyping Fashions

Stockholm's Beckhams College of Design and Konstfack University College of Arts, Craft, and Design students Naim Josefi and Souzan Youssouf collaborated to produce these crazy looking 3D printed polyamid shoes. They made five pairs for Naim's "Melonia" collection shown at last month's Stockholm Fashion Show. In order to create the shoes they used a type of rapid prototyping called Selective Laser Sintering. This manufacturing technique uses high powered lasers to fuse together small particles of plastic, metal, ceramic, or glass powders in order to create a 3-D mass.

I looked up other rapid prototyping fashions and came across this article. Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenburg have created a jewelry line called Nervous System in which they use a type of rapid prototyping to produce their designs. The two founded the company in 2007, just two years after graduating from MIT. The inspiration for their pieces comes from natural, organic structures and forms like coral and interface patterns.

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