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Innovation or gimmick: Coperni showcases spray-on fabric live at PFW

For spring/summer 2023, Parisian label Coperni placed innovation at the heart of its Paris Fashion Week show by spray-painting a slip dress onto Bella Hadid live on the catwalk. For the finale, the supermodel walked onto a platform, wearing nothing but nude underwear and one arm placed demurely across her breasts, before she was spray painted...

Design

Spray-on couture

Science and fashion might have found each other in a new spray-on fabric by Fabrican. The instant material from an aerosol can is invented by the Department of Chemical Engineering, a research group that’s working on the technology. The material promises to have potential applications for the medical, transport and chemical industries. Academic...