DRESS AND LOST LUGGAGE - 2000

 “What if we were able to travel with items that could live in the “cloud” and were empowered to 3D print them once we arrived to our final destination?”

In 2000, Jiri Evenhuis and Janne Kyttanen set out to answer this question by creating a project together which was about disrupting the way we see or even need luggage in the future.

They designed the first 3D printed textiles and dress, when at that time, 5 MB was considered a large amount of data. The dress consisted out of thousands of individual particles, far exceeding the limits of slicing software, which controlled the EOS laser sintering machines, and which were used for its production.

As in many cases, art drives innovation and encourages engineers to imagine the unthinkable - both in hardware and software. These kinds of structures are now common in 3D printing and are all around us. These 3D printable textiles are part of numerous permanent museum collections, such as MOMA NYC and the Museum at FIT in NYC.