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This collection of 3D-printed jewellery by Royal College of Art student Dorry Hsu was inspired by the designer’s own fear of insects.

Dorry Hsu 3D-printed The Aesthetic of Fears collection in clear resin using stereolithography (SLA) before attaching latex straps.

She then coloured each piece by dipping it into boiling dye, adding one hue at a time.

The forms of the jewellery are based on insects with lots of legs.

“My collection is about the aesthetic and the attraction of fears,” she explained. “In many cultures people wear masks to scare evil away, so the masks are decorated with frightening images from the wearer’s own fears.”

“I recorded and wrote down my fears in 40 days, and the bug with many legs was one of the fearful objects on my list,” she told Dezeen.

To create the 3D files to be printed, Hsu used a tool called a haptic arm that allowed her to draw the shapes as though sculpting in clay.

“It’s a way of drawing in 3D, like building up clay in a computer program,” she explained. “The haptic arm functions as a computer mouse and you can feel the tension of dragging clay.”

“It’s more like hand-drawing or hand-building clay and is really different to traditional computer drawing like Rhino,” she added.

Dorry Hsu is studying an MA in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery at the Royal College of Art in London and developed the project with the college’s RapidformRCA digital design, prototyping and manufacturing department.

She was one of four finalists in the International Talent Support awards last month.

Other 3D-printed fashion on Dezeen includes jewellery made up of ball-and-socket joints, 3D-printed sunglasses by Ron Arad and sculptural pieces by Iris van Herpen.

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News: designer Janne Kyttanen has created a range of 3D-printed shoes for women that can be made at home overnight to be worn the next day.

Kyttanen, creative director at printing giant 3D Systems, has created four different styles of wedge shoes that can be made using 3D Systems’ CubeX printer.

Consumers can download the free digital files for the shoes, select the size they require and print them in a colour of their choice.

The project is intended to attract new audiences to 3D printing, which has tended to be dominated by products aimed at men.

“I don’t know what it is with women and shoes, but I like it,” said Kyttanen, in a press release straight out of Mad Men. “I would like it even better if my girlfriend could wear a different pair every single day. Today this is a reality. Women can print this first collection of shoes overnight and wake up every morning to a new pair.”

Each shoe takes upwards of six or seven hours to print, meaning a pair could be produced overnight, assuming two shoes could be printed simultaneously on one printer.

The digital files contain data for sizes 35 to 40 and customers can choose between the Macedonia style, which is riddled with holes, the Facet style, Leaf style and plain vanilla Classic style. Further size and customisation options will be added in future.

Kyttanen, founder of Amsterdam design studio Freedom of Creation and a pioneer of designing for 3D printers, told Dezeen last year that his goal was to create products that consumers could print at home as an alternative to going shopping. “Why go buy something when you could just make your own things?” he said.

“Janne is taking the convenience of online shopping to a whole new level,” says 3D Systems. “There is no longer a need to spend hours in department stores looking for the perfect shoes to match that party dress. And if you want to get in the fashion design game yourself Janne has created the Class Shoes as a basic file you can add your own style to.”

Kyttanen is also working on 3D printed food. “Food is the next frontier,” he told us earlier this year. “One day we will be able to 3D-print a hamburger.”

Read more about 3D printing in our Print Shift magazine.

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Footwear designer Liz Ciokajlo used natural fibres from coconut husks and flax to create this shoe collection (+ slideshow).

Liz Ciokajlo mixed fibrous materials with bio-resin to set each shoe in a continuous piece.

“In the women’s footwear world the materials are usually just leather or synthetics, so these other natural materials give a softer approach that is more feminine,” the designer said.

After experiments mixing a selection of fibres in various densities with bio-resin, she created firm but flexible materials to mould into shoes.

“By concentrating the fibres and adding binders, the properties and characteristics could change, producing both soft and hard material over one continuous surface,” said Ciokajlo.

Even though each design looks solid, the heels are hollow to reduce weight and allow air to flow up through holes in the insoles.

Wool felt lining protects the feet from the scratchy fibres used for the heels and uppers, and a couple of pairs are made entirely from this softer textile.

The felt was steamed and then moulded with gauze, a technique often used in millinery design. In some cases it was dyed to contrast with the muted colours of the natural materials.

Coconut husk mixed with latex was formed around a mould designed using computer software to create the heel and sides of one pair.

Shoes in hardened flax and sculpted hemp made in the same way also feature in the collection, along with leather elements.

We featured footwear with platform heels made from porcelain earlier this month and recently we ran a feature about shoes designed by architects such as Zaha Hadid and Oscar Niemeyer.

Photos are by Stephanie Potter Corwin.

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Here’s the information sent to us by the designer:

Liz Ciokajlo is a footwear designer based in London with a background in a combination of product, furniture design and fashion accessories.

This year she finished her Masters in Fashion Footwear at London College of Fashion being the recipient of the Jimmy Choo Dato Cordwainers Award and was one of ten accessory designers in the world chosen to be a finalist in the International Talent Support Competition 2013.

The collection, called Natural Selection, aimed to objectify the shoe. The project started with the examination of how 3D printing could alter footwear architecture and identify new design constructions.

Observations were made that whilst the potential of this new technology offers many benefits the materiality was limited. There seems to be a lack of natural materials used. This lead to the critical theory 3D print is the right process but maybe using the wrong materials?

So practical research was made into the use of non-wovens as a potential material arrangement which could be developed by specialists to drive the materials used in 3D print.

A collection of varied natural non-woven materials were selected and applied to a methodology in a masters educational context. By concentrating the fibres and adding binders, the properties and characteristics could change, producing both soft and hard material over one continuous surface.

Innovative materials used in the product and furniture industries were “borrowed” and applied to fashion footwear raising further challenges as to what materials are acceptable, in a trend lead fashion context. The design form was the element unifying the collection.

As the project progressed it became evident, synthetic biology will converge with 3D print to offer solutions to these issues. A designer’s understanding of trends and emotional qualities of materials make them key to drive the new technologies in fashion and science.

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Le photographe japonais Nagano Toyokazu réalise une série « My Daughter Kanna », qui met en scène sa petite fille de 4 ans au milieu d’une route déserte. Ayant pour seuls artifices quelques accessoires, Kana nous fait entrer dans un univers haut en couleurs où elle règne en maître. De superbes clichés à découvrir.

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Dutch designers Iris van Herpen and Jólan van der Wiel collaborated to grow these dresses with magnets.

Product designer Jólan van der Wiel approached fashion designer Iris van Herpen with the idea to grow clothing using magnetic forces. To do this they manipulated a material made from iron filings mixed into resin.

This composite material was added to fabric in small sections then pulled by magnets, creating a spiky texture and patterns in a similar to the way van der Wiel shaped stools at Dezeen Platform in 2011.

“The technique still uses magnetism but with a new material that’s much more flexible and tactile, like a hairy skin that’s soft to touch,” van der Wiel told Dezeen. “The material moves with the body much better than what we’ve used previously.”

Before creating the dresses, van der Wiel experimented with the material to achieve the optimal flexible structure and dark pearlescent colour. Van Herpen then sketched out the shapes of the designs and made the cloth bases.

“The first dress we made was shaped like the moon,” said van Herpen. “With the second, I wanted the material to grow around the body more organically.” Each of the two garments took three weeks to construct.

The dresses were shown as part of Iris van Herpen’s Autumn Winter 2013 fashion show in Paris earlier this month, where outfits were accompanied by 3D-printed shoes that look like tree roots.

“The original idea was to have a dress growing live during the show through magnetism… so people could see the birth of the dress, how the dress would grow,” van Herpen said, though this proved too complex and potentially unsafe for the models.

We interviewed van Herpen for our print-on-demand magazine Print Shift, during which she told us about how 3D printing could transform the fashion industry.

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