Liquid Fabric Of Paris Fashion Week: The Body Is Canvas, And It Takes Ten Minutes To "Spray" A Dress Skirt

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During this year's Paris fashion week, the designer brand coperni cooperated with Fabrican, a British textile technology company, which caused a lot of attention: the two sides cooperated to "spray" a dress skirt with the body of super model Bella Hadid as the canvas in 10 minutes.

On October 1, when the spring show of coperni 2023 was coming to an end, Bella Hadid walked on a small stage equipped with lighting equipment. Two technical experts sprayed a kind of white liquid fabric called "Fabrican". Then Charlotte Raymond, the design director of coperni brand, stepped onto the stage to remove the excess burrs and cut a seam along the leg line, Finally, Bella Hadid was on the show wearing this off the shoulder asymmetrical white dress that was made in 10 minutes.

Founded in 2003 by Spanish fashion designer and scientist Manel Torres, Fabrican is a product that can be sprayed in real time. Its liquid contents are polymer materials and natural / synthetic fibers. After contacting with air, the liquid will quickly dry and turn into non-woven fabric. "Fabrican is a patented, real-time, sprayable, non-woven fabric with our headquarters at the London bioscience innovation centre," the company's website said.

Fabrican is very convenient to use, just spray the liquid fabric in the bottle directly on the body, and you can immediately "put on" a seamless T-shirt or other clothing. The liquid fabric consists of small fibers mixed with the polymer and a solvent that releases the fabric in the form of a liquid, which evaporates shortly after contact with the human body surface. Single layer fabric is very thin, but it can achieve the ideal thickness by multi-layer spray. Because the fabric is made of small fibers, the formula of Fabrican can also add pigments, flavors, active ingredients, "conductive materials that can interface with information technology", etc.

One of the characteristics of Fabrican is its flexibility and variability - adjusting the composition of liquid fabrics, such as synthetic and natural fibers such as cotton, linen, polyester or nylon, to achieve a variety of fabric textures. In this way, designers can improvise or customize.

"Its ingredients contain no ozone depleting substances, skipping the traditional industrial supply chain, improving production efficiency, and reducing dependence on overseas parts suppliers all contribute to reducing the carbon footprint," the brand said.

Combined with robot spraying technology, Fabrican spray technology can be used to "produce seamless sportswear, realize the creation of complex contours, multiple designs and color combinations without expensive or complex modifications."

In addition, Fabrican's materials, whether liquid or solid, can be recycled and reused. Its chemical composition comes from a liquid suspension. Even if it has been used up, the sprayed fabric can be re dissolved to make a new spray, which greatly reduces the waste and waste of raw materials.

Although Fabrican was originally born for the fashion industry, it has been used in other fields, such as health care, to produce masks, protective clothing, bandages, etc.