3D Printed Dress Towards the Ambivalent Fashion

This paper will firstly contextualise the relationship between fashion and technology based on the discussion of ‘fashion and modernity’ by fashion historian Elizabeth Wilson. It will further explain how technology developed to the computational knowledge, as we know today, and how digital technology affects our understanding of fashion. In addition to this, this paper will introduce the history of 3D printed fashion and, by examining some of the pioneering practices, the paper states 3D printed fashion as an ambivalent concept. Instead of having a solid conclusion, the question raised to current practitioners is how technological innovation responds to the ambivalent nature of digital fashion.