The Spark
Noah Pesante's senior-thesis couture confronts 'what's real anymore?' — a gown overtaken by a forest that never grew, fusing the natural and the artificial until the seam between them disappears.
In Process
Charcoal concept art and a draped muslin mockup with branch appliqué set the silhouette before any 3D work began — the classical couture process leading, the digital pipeline following.
The Craft
Meshy.ai generated the branching tree geometry from image and text prompts ('Thorned Elegance', 'Rooted Summit'); the outputs were refined in Blender and Rhino, prepared in PrusaSlicer, and 3D-printed as wearable structure — a complete text-to-textile pipeline.
Outcome
WON the Devil Wears Prada 2 Design Competition (20th Century Studios · Who What Wear · Disney). Splitting flexible TPU (bodice) from rigid PLA (skirt) let one 3D-printed motif behave like fabric where it needed to — and the final tree structure is explorable as an interactive 3D model right on this page.
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Process — 18 frames
