New designs presented during Paris Fashion Week by a group of University of Waterloo architects and engineers has been enthusiastically received by the global media.
Waterloo’s Hylozoic Architecture group led by Philip Beesley of
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Supported by advanced computational modeling and industrial design, Waterloo's Hylozoic Architecture group's innovative designs combine precisely detailed polymer, crystal and leather components into interlinking three-dimensional fabric structures with striking qualities of flexibility, sparkle and transparency.
Bridging between couture and ready-to-wear
Beesley and collaborators’ new engineered fabrics bridge between couture
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The collaboration has been growing in momentum with van Herpen’s launch of ready-to-wear lines of clothing that translate the radical experiment of her haute couture explorations into comfortable, highly finished form-fitting clothing.