The Use of 3D Printing + Fashion Design | Snezhana Paderina | Fashion & Wearable Technology Designer

False Image Fashion Podcast

Meet Snezhana Paderina, a New York City-based fashion and wearable technology designer. Snezhana combines 3D printing and a traditional sewing method to create her designs. Her fusion of today’s hi-tech with traditional fashion design has shifted her vision of style toward a combo of avant-garde and ready-to-wear clothing and bags that intersperse elements of architecture, technology, cyberpunk, literature and art throughout her silhouettes and designs. Her exclusive apparel collections include the 3D Faces Coat, the Cyborg Dress, the 3D-Printed Back Dress, a sheeny reflective fabric line featuring the Silver Jacket and Silver Pants, and Cyber Realm, a cyberpunk- inspired bag line. She was one of the first in Russia who began to apply 3D printing in the production of casual wear. Her designs are already making a smash in the fashion industry: Taking first place at the Fashion Futurum Accelerator by Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Russia, and was featured at the Metropolitan Musuem of Art Costume Institute’s design com- petition exhibition Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology. Her cutting-edge approach to wearable technology and the process of its creation can be a mystery to consumers and fashion mavens alike. Snezhana talks about her journey in transitioning from a career in information technology to now becoming a fashion designer, why she chose to use 3D printing to create her designs, and how today’s fashion and tech trends depend on each other to further the growth of wearable technology.