During this year’s Paris Fashion Week, the designer brand Coperni collaborated with the British textile technology company Fabrican, which attracted a lot of attention: the two parties used supermodel Bella Hadid’s body as the canvas and “sprayed” a dress in ten minutes. skirt.
On October 1, when the Coperni 2023 spring series show was coming to an end, Bella Hadid walked alone onto a small stage equipped with lighting equipment. Two technical experts spray-painted a kind of paint called ” Fabrican” white liquid fabric, then Coperni brand design director Charlotte Raymond came on stage to remove the excess raw edges and cut a slit along the leg line. Finally, Bella Hadid wore this off-the-shoulder piece that was made in ten minutes Asymmetrical white dress, shown on the catwalk.
Founded in 2003 by Spanish fashion designer and scientist Manel Torres, Fabrican is a product that can be sprayed in real time. Its liquid content is polymer materials and natural/synthetic fibers. After contact with air, This liquid dries quickly and turns into non-woven fabric. “Fabrican is a patented, real-time, sprayable, spray-on non-woven fabric based at the London Bioscience Innovation Centre,” reads the company’s official website.
Fabrican is very convenient to use. Just spray the liquid fabric in the bottle directly on the body, and you can immediately “wear” a seamless T-shirt or other clothing. The ingredients in this liquid fabric include small fibers mixed with polymers and a solvent that releases the fabric in liquid form, which evaporates shortly after it comes into contact with the body’s surface. A single layer of fabric is very thin, but it can be sprayed in multiple layers to achieve the ideal thickness. Because the fabric is made of small fibers interwoven laterally, Fabrican’s formula can also be added with pigments, fragrances, active ingredients, “conductive materials that can interface with information technology,” and more.
A major feature of Fabrican is flexibility and changeability – adjust the composition of liquid fabrics, such as synthetic fibers and natural fibers, such as cotton, linen, polyester or nylon, etc., to obtain a variety of different fabric texture. In this way, designers can improvise and tailor-made.
“Its ingredients do not contain ozone-depleting substances, it improves production efficiency by skipping the traditional industrial supply chain, and reduces dependence on overseas parts suppliers, all of which help reduce the carbon footprint. ”, points out the brand.
Combined with robotic spraying technology, Fabrican sprayable technology can be used to “produce seamless sportswear, achieving complex silhouettes, multiple designs and color combinations without expensive or complicated modifications.” Creation.”
In addition, all Fabrican materials, whether liquid or solid, can be recycled and used again. Its chemical composition comes from a liquid suspension. Even after use, the sprayed fabric can be re-dissolved to make a new spray, greatly reducing the waste and disposal of raw materials.
Although Fabrican was originally born for the fashion industry, it has been used in other fields, such as the medical and health care fields, to produce facial masks, protective clothing, bandages, etc.
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