Bio-inspired textiles: When the designers of the New York collective threeASFOUR use the 3D printer, it is to invent a second skin. Here, before your eyes, is a snake garment that fits perfectly to the joints of the body.
This textile is bio-inspired by sacred geometry and the animal world. The threeASFOUR have made technology a research tool to create harmony between humans and nature.
When we are inspired by what is found in nature, we speak of biomimicry. In our case, Bio-inspired textiles. To give a simple definition, it is the way to be inspired by Nature, in order to find solutions to human problems. If you want to know more about this subject, here is a first book: Biomimicry: When nature inspires sustainable innovations. The person who recommended it to me is someone who is passionate about the subject.
I want to talk more specifically about this bio-inspired outfit made of pangolin shell:
photo credits ThreeASFOUR
This garment is made of a very mobile mixture, and in other places very fixed. This mixture must allow the wearer to walk, breathe or lift his arms. The garment is created and modeled in 3D printing. Then it is sewn by hand.
photo credits ThreeASFOUR
What is amazing in this bio-inspired textile is the mix between technologies like 3D, and the ancestral know-how of sewing, by hand.
This creation shows that Nature inspires fashion. Nature has a lot to teach us, it is necessary that the creators are inspired by it.
About the collective:
ThreeASFOUR is a trio of transnational artists based in New York City who use fashion as their primary medium.
ThreeASFOUR is a collective created in 2005 by Gabriel Asfour (born in Lebanon), Angela Donhauser (born in USSR) and Adi Gil (born in Israel). This collective has built a legacy of fusing cutting edge technology and traditional craftsmanship to create garments at the intersection of fashion and art.
Drawing its fundamental aesthetic from the universal languages of sacred geometry, threeASFOUR is dedicated to the creative exploration of themes of consciousness and cultural coexistence.
In 2015, threeASFOUR received the Cooper-Hewitt / Smithsonian Museum National Design Award.
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