Modular Fashion
From my undergrad in Clothing and Textiles, I practiced finding spatial dimensions from garment structures using fabrics. What I mainly focused on was the variation of circular shapes. Especially when our body consists of various curved lines that a straight line is hardly used when constructing a garment.
I tried with various sizes and shapes of circles and multilayers sewn in diverse ways. As they follow along the body line, they create new shapes and spaces. The same size rings will create dimension as they are sewn together at the outer line.
Different sizes of rings sewn at the inner line will connect along with the body line.
In this same sense, I wanted to bring the creation of spatial dimension from the flat surface further with 3D printing. Pleating techniques are commonly seen in fashion, applying the inconvenience of adding a crease effect on fabric to bring flexibility and mobility obtained from origami techniques. Origami is of great use to utilize flat dimensions to form multi-dimensions.
I wanted to add origami to fabrics. To give a form of structure, 3D printing is used to build the framework of a pattern. Using flexible filaments on cotton poplin fabrics, designed patterns become the crease lines to be folded accordingly.
Shape Memory Nitinol Alloy (SMA) is an advanced smart material that can undergo deformation at low temperatures and return to its programmed shape when exposed to an activation temperature.
