Ten 3D printed fashion pioneers: from Iris van Herpen to Noa Raviv
Every 3D printed garment in a museum today stands on two decades of work by a small group of designers and studios. This is the reading list we use in Fabricademy's Week 7 class — ten starting points, each with a body of work worth an afternoon.
1. Iris van Herpen
Amsterdam atelier whose printed couture put additive manufacturing on the haute couture runway.
2. Nervous System
Studio working with generative design and printed structures that behave like textiles.
3. Neri Oxman
Architect and researcher whose work on material ecology framed printed structure as a design problem, not a material trick.
4. Danit Peleg
The designer who printed an entire fashion collection at home, and has kept publishing how she did it.
5. Julia Koerner
Architect and designer whose computational couture pieces move between fashion, film and product — including the printed headpiece and shoulders worn by Queen Ramonda in Black Panther, the image that opens this post.
6. Ganit Goldstein
Designer working with direct-to-textile printing, where full-colour patterns are printed onto fabric itself.
7. United Nude
Footwear brand that has used printing for both production parts and one-off sculptural shoes.
8. Niccolo Casas
Architect and designer at the intersection of computation, couture and printed structures.
9. threeASFOUR with Travis Fitch
Long-running collaboration between fashion and computational design, shown on the New York runway.
10. Noa Raviv
Designer behind Hard Copy, garments where printed geometry and fabric are locked together.
How to read this list
Look at how each one answers the same three questions: what is printed (the textile, onto a textile, or a part for it), what holds it together, and what it does on a body — drape, expand, fold, or stay rigid. Those three answers are the whole craft, and they are also how this library is organised: 3D printing on fabric, 3D chainmail and elastomers.
Compiled by Anastasia Pistofidou for the Fabricademy Week 7 class, "Computational Couture". Images are the designers' own work, reproduced from the class slides with links to each studio.
Share what you make
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.
