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Admin2KMar-06-2013 9:56 PMI saw this article and thought Dita should play Rachel in the next Blade Runner movie, she looks so much like her!!!
[Center]Dita Von Teese Debuts 3D-Printed Dress[/Center]
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Style icon Dita Von Teese debuted a 3D-printed dress at the Ace Hotel on Monday, born out of a collaboration between designer Michael Schmidt and architect Francis Bitonti.
Schmidt, well-known for designing Lady Gaga's famous bubble dress, worked with Bitonti, a Brooklyn-based architect who renders designs with new technologies in unusual material — this time to make a 3D-printed dress from hardened powdered nylon that still allows for movement on the body.
[i]"We were an interesting team because I take things that are virtual and I figure out what to make them of"[/i] Bitonti said.
The dress was created virtually. Schmidt designed the entire dress on his iPad and communicated with Bitonti through Skype during the process of imagining 17 unique pieces and 3,000 joints that let the dress move with the body, working with 3D-printing design studio Shapeways, to print each piece before it was lacquered black and adorned with 13,000 black Swarovski crystals. It is composed of 3,000 unique moving individual hollow parts allowing the piece to be extremely lightweight for it's size at 11.5 pounds
The dress will go on tour and be displayed first at Swarovski and then in museums.
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Source: [url=http://mashable.com/2013/03/06/dita-von-teese-debuts-3d-printed-dress-by-michael-schmidt-and-francis-bitonti/]Mashable.com[/url]
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