3D-printed dresses take inspiration from the Audi A4 luxury car - CNET

Most people wouldn't think of dressing up like an Audi. But designer Anouk Wipprecht, famed for her 3D-printed designs that interact with the wearer and the world, isn't most people. Her latest design project, in collaboration with car manufacturer Audi, consists of a series of four dresses, each of which incorporates design and technology elements from Audi's A4. The first of the four is the Projection Map Dress, based on the... "With, for example, a vehicle like the new Audi A4, you can have something that really makes sense, that really creates a connection between yourself and a vehicle, something that is much more tactile and much more around you. These are 3D-printed breastblates that are embedded with Audi's Ultrasonic RangeFinder parking sensors. Finally, the flagship dress is embedded with the same 60-watt high-power LEDs that are used in the car's headlights. "I took the LEDs of the car and placed [them] within the dress, so this flashing light goes off and it's just shining in your face and just blasting you away," Wipprecht told Dezeen. Each dress was designed specifically to fit the wearer: Wipprecht scanned their bodies in 3D and used that model as a basis on which to design the dress for a perfect fit. Source: www.cnet.com