Name: Forget Shopping. Soon You'll Download Your New Clothes | Danit Peleg | TED Talks
Uploaded: 2019-12-20T14:45:54.000Z
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In the past few months, I've been traveling for weeks at a time

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One day, I was invited to an important event,

and I wanted to wear something special and new for it.

So I looked through my suitcase and I couldn't find anything to wear.

I was lucky to be at the technology conference on that day,

So I quickly designed a skirt on my computer,

The next morning, I just took all the pieces,

assembled them together in my hotel room,

and this is actually the skirt that I'm wearing right now.

So it wasn't the first time that I printed clothes.

For my senior collection at fashion design school,

I decided to try and 3D print an entire fashion collection from my home.

The problem was that I barely knew anything about 3D printing,

and I had only nine months to figure out how to print five fashionable looks.

I always felt most creative when I worked from home.

I loved experimenting with new materials,

and I always tried to develop new techniques

to make the most unique textiles for my fashion projects.

I loved going to old factories and weird stores

in search of leftovers of strange powders and weird materials,

and then bring them home to experiment on.

So I decided to move on to working with big machines,

I love the exact and the custom work I can do

like knitting machines and laser cutting and silk printing.

One summer break, I came here to New York for an internship

We worked on two incredible dresses that were 3D printed.

They were amazing -- like you can see here.

They were made from hard plastics and that's why they were very breakable.

and they even got scratched from the plastics under their arms.

With 3D printing, the designers had so much freedom

to make the dresses look exactly like they wanted,

but still, they were very dependent on big and expensive industrial printers

that were located in a lab far from their studio.

Later that year, a friend gave me a 3D printed necklace,

I knew that these printers were much cheaper

and much more accessible than the ones we used at my internship.

and then I thought, "If I can print a necklace from home,

why not print my clothes from home, too?"

I really liked the idea that I wouldn't have to go to the market

and pick fabrics that someone else chose to sell --

I could just design them and print them directly from home.

where I learned everything I know about 3D printing.

Right away, they literally gave me the key to the lab,

so I could experiment into the night, every night.

The main challenge was to find the right filament for printing clothes with.

Filament is the material you feed the printer with.

And I spent a month or so experimenting with PLA,

which is a hard and scratchy, breakable material.

The breakthrough came when I was introduced to Filaflex,

And with it, I was able to print the first garment,

the red jacket that had the word "Liberté" --

I chose this word because I felt so empowered and free

when I could just design a garment from my home

And actually, you can easily download this jacket,

and easily change the word to something else.

For example, your name or your sweetheart's name.

so I had to piece the garment together, just like a puzzle.

that I would use just like regular fabrics.

from an architect who designed a pattern that I love.

And with it, I was able to print a beautiful textile

that I would use just like a regular fabric.

And it actually even looks a little bit like lace.

So I took his file and I modified it, and changed it, played with it --

And I needed to print another 1,500 more hours

So I brought six printers to my home and just printed 24-7.

And this is actually a really slow process,

but let's remember the Internet was significantly slower 20 years ago,

and in no time you'll be able to print a T-Shirt in your home

in just a couple of hours, or even minutes.

So you guys, you want to see what it looks like?

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