Ruff -- The 3D Printed Wearble That's an Extension of Our Bodies

Attendees at this year’s South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas will have the opportunity to see in person the high-tech wearable Ruff, a 3D printed garment that acts as a performative extension of the wearer’s body. As part of the Creators Project, architect Behnaz Farahi and fashion designer Pauline van Dongen teamed up create the piece, which is a modernistic update of the large, ostentatious ruff worn in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, the piece is something like a large, wearable slinky that moves as the wearer moves. Find out more about the project, and check out a video of the wearable in action, in the full article: http://3dprint.com/51292/3d-printed-wearable-ruff-sxsw/


Below is a photo of a model wearing the 3D printed Ruff:
http://3dprint.com/wp-content/upload.../03/ruff-2.jpg

There is not one woman or girl in my life that would be caught dead wearing that.

That right there is absolute unequivocal proof that the following professions should NOT ever collaborate on any project:

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