The most viral moment of this Paris Fashion Week lived in the parade of Coperni, where the inventor of the spray fabric, the Catalan Manel Torresdirector of Fabrican Ltd, personally applied the product to top model Bella Hadid, which, when dried and shaped, was transformed into a dress in a matter of seconds.
It was Torres himself, inventor of this device, who, together with his assistant, applied this spray liquid to Hadid, who was on her feet for the entire eight minutes, while gracefully moving her hands to allow the product to reach all parts of her body. Once she dried, the garment was modeled: a sewing assistant lowered the straps and cut a side slit in the skirt with scissors.
Later, Hadid paraded down the catwalk before the incredulous gaze of the attendees who gave a barrage of applause to Arnaud Vaillant and Sébastien Meyer, the creators of the Parisian firm Coperni. A unique moment in fashion that many specialized magazines and analysts already see as an image that will transcend the history of the industry and that has gone around the world in the media and social networks.
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Founded in 2003, Fabrican is dedicated to researching the application of its technology in clothing, but also in health, automotive, construction and shipping packaging products, thanks to this spray that is applied with aerosol technology, shaping 3D creations. The moment, which took place on Friday night, became the milestone of this Paris Fashion Week, in which the trends for next spring-summer 2023 are presented until this Tuesday.
Bella Hadid closing the Coperni SS23 show getting “dressed” by being sprayed pic.twitter.com/MaQ7riWYZq
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Torres, who lives in London, studied Arts with a specialty in fashion design at the School of Fashion Arts and Techniques in Barcelona. and went on to earn a master’s degree in fashion design at the Royal College of Art, where he later she got a doctorate in philosophy and fashion for womenwith a thesis dedicated precisely to this project in collaboration with the department of chemical engineering at Imperial College London.
On his company’s website, Torres specifies that the spray can be used to create smart fabrics, at an affordable price that opens its use to multiple sectors.
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From spray clothing, through medical patches and sanitary wipes, many of the products created by Fabrican already have real applications and develop new uses with this technology that combines science and design. For its part, Coperni explained in a statement that the spray can be used to make “innovative” clothing that can be washed and reused and even used with diagnostic devices that can measure the health of the person wearing it.
“The technology consists of short fibers bonded with more environmentally friendly polymers and biopolymers and solvents, which are delivered to the fabric in liquid form and then evaporate when the spray reaches a surface,” the brand’s statement continues. Fabrican says that the versatility of this spray fabric heralds “a new era in 21st century mass customization.”