Amanda Bäckström, Content Manager
2 min read
Customer Profile
Monika Vaverova is a talented young fashion designer quickly becoming known in the design world – both in the Czech Republic and beyond. Under the brand MIMO SPACE, Vaverova designs costumes for production and individual art projects. Her designs are characterized by their originality, variability, and functionality. The vibrant, futuristic elements of the designer’s costumes reflect her creative personality.
Challenge
Fashion designer Monika Vaverova was looking for a brand-new concept to surprise the audience at her upcoming fashion show. She decided to link technology and fashion design using the latest 3D technology for a costume she named “Eagle Borg.”
Monika was the first designer to use 3D technology at a fashion show in the Czech Republic. Her design combined textile components with elements fabricated by a 3D printer, resulting in an innovative costume that wowed the audience.
The young designer was excited about the opportunity to integrate the new
3D technology into her creative process. Although she initially had only a basic
understanding of the possibilities of 3D printing, with help from the YSoft BE3D team, she quickly saw how the technology could enhance her designs and increase the innovation potential.
Monika says, “3D printing technology and fashion design are new and challenging. The YSoft BE3D team and I developed a working method in which I first created paper and cardboard models, reviewed them with Y Soft, and then repeated that process until the final production of the very last prototype.”
Solution
Creating the Eagle Borg costume required the designer and the YSoft BE3D team to work together to develop and produce numerous textile and 3D-printed components. The costume included many individual 3D-printed components, such as numerous small “feathers” and separate components for the chest, arms, back, and head.
"The collaboration with YSoft BE3D has been a useful and valuable experience for me. The BE3D team helped me
both during and after the development of my design. I am now motivated to follow this trend and use it in my fashion design practice in the future!"
Monika Vaverova, Fashion Designer
A paper and cardboard model was created for each costume component, which was used as the basis for developing an equivalent model in 3D modeling software. The component was then produced by YSoft BE3D 3D printers using FDM 3D printing technology.
Benefits
Monika presented the Eagle Borg costume at a fashion show in Prague in October 2015. The costume surprised the regular participants and caught the media's attention as an exciting new way of integrating state-of-the-art technology with the fashion world. Thanks to the designer’s creative imagination and the cooperation of the YSoft BE3D team, Monika obtained invaluable media coverage for the show and MIMO.
The Eagle Borg project demonstrated that 3D printing can be used as a creative alternative in fashion and costume design—a valuable tool for prototyping ideas and producing the final result.
