Few fashion designers have experimented as intensively with new ways to introduce 3D printing and digital manufacturing techniques in haute couture clothing design and style as Iris Van Herpen. Over the past few years, often coinciding with Paris Fashion Week, this has brought us amazing experimental creations such as the Voltage, Wilderness Embodied, and Magnetic Motion collections, displaying new approaches to 3D printing growing in many different creative directions.
At the latest Paris Fashion Week, in an effort to keep pushing the limits of the imagination and of what digital manufacturing can achieve in the fashion world, Van Herpen presented the concept of a gown that is sown onto a person in real time, starting from the center and expanding in all directions creating a circle. This theme is what gave the name to the collection:quaquaversal，拉丁语“从中心朝着四面八方沿着方向前进”。
The actress who lent herself to be the subject of the Quaquaversal Show was Gwendoline Christie, who plays Brienne of Tarth in HBO’s hitGame of Thrones系列赛，还将在即将到来的Phasma上扮演Phasma星球大战：第七集film. Unlike recent collections, where 3D printing played a primary role as the manufacturing process for the dresses and accessories, in Quaquaversal, Herpen also made intensive use of other digital manufacturing technologies, including both laser cutting and CNC milling.
该方法也通过了该集合中显示在失控上的许多其他项目。带有Quaquaversal概念的艺术装置当然没有引起注意。克里斯蒂（Christie）躺在上面时，艺术家乔兰·范·德·维尔（Jolan Van Der Wiel）创造的三种雕塑形式（它们都让人联想到“光谱机器人武器” - 隔行，印刷和剪裁，在所有方向上散布在女演员周围的礼服。“Van Herpen’s work reveals the secret structures of our existence giving us a multidimensional experience of what it is to be alive, it is an investigation into the past, present and future in all its primal and mythological forms,”克里斯蒂说。
与Iris Van Herpen的其他作品一样，该系列也受到自然形式的启发。具体而言，在这种情况下，印度的活树桥梁。“植物和其他生物形成活着建筑的美丽潜力启发了我制作的系列，就像身体周围的迷宫一样纠结。”她在网站上说。“灵感来自植物及其根源的生长方式，以及在印度森林中如何使用根源来种植生物桥。这种种植桥梁的传统激发了我重新驾驶制作衣服的过程，”Van Herpen explained.
模仿制造业中的自然线条和过程是数字制造和3D打印的最大新可能性之一。这一切都从一个想法开始，然后在所有不同方向上生长，大多数Quaquavers。
