Fabricademy 3D printed fashion pioneers: ten student works

By Anastasia Pistofidou · Updated 2026-09-11 · 2 min read

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The names of 3D printed fashion are usually the studios in the magazines. But a different list was being written inside the classroom, one final project at a time: students printing dresses, bodices and armour in the years when printing on cloth was still an open question.

This is that list — ten works from Fabricademy students across cohorts, shown in the Week 7 Computational Couture class. Each one is a printed garment that had to survive being worn.

Amaya De Yavorski — 3D printed yellow lattice dress worn with platform boots — 1. **Amaya De Yavorski** — a yellow dress whose entire surface is a printed lattice, the geometry doing the work of both pattern and fabric.

Dima Hejap — pale 3D printed bodice of layered feather plates — 2. **Dima Hejap** — a pale bodice built from layered, feather-like plates over a sheer base, instead of a single rigid shell.

Cappucine — cream 3D printed collar of overlapping feather forms — 3. **Cappucine** — the same idea taken to its detail: overlapping printed feather forms on the collar and chest, each one a separate printed unit.

Stephanie Johnson — red 3D printed garment with fine white line pattern — 4. **Stephanie Johnson** — a red printed garment carrying a fine white line pattern across its whole surface.

Batool Al Rashdan — pale 3D printed collar dress with long sheer blue train — 5. **Batool Al Rashdan** — a pale printed collar over a long sheer blue train, a print and a textile negotiating the same silhouette.

Doa'a — green 3D printed jacket with orange and white geometric pattern — 6. **Doa'a** — a green printed jacket patterned in orange and white: the strongest signal in the group that printed surface can carry colour and ornament, not only structure.

Simone Kiswani — black and white 3D printed dress photographed on a mannequin — 7. **Simone Kiswani** — a black and white printed dress, its geometry reading as a graphic pattern across the body.

Simone Kiswani — dark 3D printed volume lit from inside with blue light — 8. **Simone Kiswani** — a second piece from the same project, printed as a hollow volume and lit from inside, photographed in the dark.

Zahia Albarki — blue 3D printed scale-like shoulder piece over a printed corset — 9. **Zahia Albarki** — blue scale-like plates across the shoulders over a printed corset: armour logic, printed joint by joint.

Dinesh Kumar — red 3D printed garment of concentric printed lines — 10. **Dinesh Kumar** — a red garment of concentric printed lines, the surface acting as a drawing on the cloth rather than a shell over it.

What the ten have in common

Nothing about the materials is shared — the group runs from stiff lattice to soft flexible filament, from pale neutrals to yellow, red and green. What they share is a decision: print for the body, not for the printer.

That shows up in three ways:

Many small units, not one big panel. Prints are broken into pieces so the garment can still drape, fold and be put on. This is the same lesson the Moiré Drops case study counts out in hours.
The surface is the design. Pattern, ornament and structure come from the printed geometry itself, which is why these pieces look unlike woven textile with print applied afterwards.
Finished garments, photographed on bodies. Every one of the ten is documented worn or dressed, which is the only way to judge whether printed cloth actually works.

Where to go next

If you are placing these ten in the wider field, start with the taxonomy of printing of, on and for textiles and the ten designers who set the direction. For the technologies behind them, see FDM, SLS and direct-to-textile.

Print your own

MetaTextiles is an open library of 3D printed fashion files. If you have printed a garment, a swatch or a structure onto cloth, upload it so the next cohort starts from your geometry instead of from zero.

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Every design in this library is published with its printable files under a Creative Commons licence. If you have printed something — or remixed one of these ideas — add it to the catalogue so the next person can build on it.

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