FASHION

Could your next luxury buy be 3D-printed? Here's why Louis Vuitton is embracing new tech.

BY PEACE NEWS 

ART AND DESIGN ,3D PRINTING
BY PEACE NEWS
REPORTER 

(PEACE NEWS)To think of a luxury French fashion house is to conjure fantasies of nimble-fingered seamstresses stitching impossibly delicate textiles and fine leathers in quiet, forbidden ateliers.

But high fashion's reliance on the handmade has been, if you ask Louis Vuitton artistic director Nicolas Ghesquiere, somewhat overstated.

"Fashion is a wonderful industry because fashion is scared of nothing," Ghesquiere says. "Fashion was always very supportive of the craft, and at the same time fashion has never refused innovation, never refused to go further, to look for a new way to do it, and technology is a part of it."

BY PEACE NEWS REPORTER