Epson and Designer Yuima Nakazato Show a Glimpse of a More Sustainable Future for Fashion
– Partnership brings together inkjet and dry fibre technologies to generate beautiful designs from recycled outfits –
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, England, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Epson has partnered with renowned Japanese vogue designer Yuima Nakazato and his eponymous YUIMA NAKAZATO model at Paris Haute Couture Style 7 days Spring – Summer season 2023 to unveil creations that are the two stunning and sustainable. In addition to utilising Epson’s electronic textile printing to reproduce his exceptional and creative worldview, YUIMA NAKAZATO realised some of its creations with the enable of a new, additional sustainable and most likely industry-transforming textile manufacturing system.
Epson’s dry fibre know-how, which is presently made use of commercially to recycle office environment paper and which involves nearly no drinking water, has been tailored to create printable non-woven material from made use of clothes. The new material manufacturing approach was uncovered in Paris as portion of a 3-year collaboration involving Epson and YUIMA NAKAZATO and was made use of in the generation of items for the initially time during the latter’s runway clearly show at the Palais de Tokyo on January 25, 2023.
The collaboration involving Epson and YUIMA NAKAZATO builds on the achievement of the firm’s printing assistance for his couture and evolves the stage of his creations to permit the small-affect generation of superior-quality tailor made garments. Each Epson and YUIMA NAKAZATO are eager to elevate consciousness of the h2o and content squander connected with excess output. The Paris Demonstrate illustrates how switching to digital textile printing working with extra environmentally friendly pigment inks offers the vogue market a a lot more sustainable and less wasteful means of textile printing.[1]
The material taken to build the newest YUIMA NAKAZATO trend line was derived from materials from made use of garments sourced from Africa, the destination for a lot of discarded clothes from somewhere else in the earth. Nakazato frequented Kenya the place he collected about 150 kg of squander garment material destined for the “dresses mountain” of discarded textiles he encountered there. Epson then utilized its dry fibre method to make in excess of 50 metres of new re-fiberised non-woven material, some of which was applied for printing with pigment inks with Epson’s Monna Lisa digital printing know-how.[2]
Hitoshi Igarashi from Epson’s Printing Answers Division explains the great importance of the engineering: “Despite the fact that in its early phases, Epson thinks its dry fibre technology combined with pigment ink digital printing could offer you the trend market a a great deal a lot more sustainable long run, considerably cutting down h2o use whilst enabling designers the flexibility to totally categorical their creative imagination.
“Epson’s Environmental Eyesight is committed to contributing to a circular economic climate, and this growth could be a person stage in the direction of obtaining this. Dry fibre technological know-how used to the style industry delivers the likelihood of manufacturing substance for new clothing that have been recycled from used clothes.”
In a trial of distributed printing for venue decoration, Epson inkjet printers in Japan and France with distant guidance from Epson engineers had been utilized to produce decorations in the venue place. Each Epson and YUIMA NAKAZATO intend to carry on exploring the opportunities for contributing to a a lot more sustainable fashion sector.
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[1] Electronic textile printing making use of pigment inks presents a additional sustainable solution to the fabric production method in comparison with conventional analogue methods. In addition to pigment inks necessitating noticeably less drinking water, the electronic course of action requires considerably less phases and is much less complicated. Compared with analogue it necessitates no plate creation, washing or storage, results in minor disposal of used inks, and permits on-desire creation that contributes to less waste.
[2] Epson’s Monna Lisa electronic Immediate-to-Material printers use much less h2o compared with analogue solutions. Pigment inks are more eco-friendly. Epson GENESTA pigment inks are GOTS permitted by ECOCERT.
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