Epson Provides Production Support for Fashion Designer Yuima Nakazato’s Paris Fashion Week

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– Epson’s inkjet technological innovation utilized to build clothes and backdrop –

TOKYO, Japan – Seiko Epson Corporation furnished guidance to style designer Yuima Nakazato for his assortment demonstrated at the 2022 Paris Haute Couture Selection on July 7, 2022. Epson supported the generation of the fashions and stage structure from June 3 to June 28.

Yuima Nakazato’s trend household has a vision that the evolution of garments will create an even richer long run. To satisfy its responsibility for the future, the fashion residence has continued to meticulously pick the materials utilized and the resources from which they are procured. It has constantly sought to create clothes that is created to be worn for a extensive time and then recycled.

Epson endorses the Yuima Nakazato vision and a short while ago employed electronic textile printing technologies to help the replica of the delicate textures and shades of hand-painted resources to the exacting prerequisites of the manner household as very well as making the works with a lowered environmental affect. Yuima Nakazato’s patterns were being faithfully reproduced on particularly slender (.07 mm) silk organdy material that was made use of for some of the fashions using a Monna Lisa digital inkjet textile printer at the Remedy Heart in Epson’s Fujimi Plant.

Electronic textile printing does not require printing plates, so it is ideally suited for the quick generation of substance in only the sum required. And, considering that these layouts ended up printed utilizing pigment ink, which necessitates less steps than a dye ink printing system, Yuima Nakazato was capable to get the job done on the patterns for the fashion collection until eventually shortly before the display. Inkjet textile printing has a significantly more compact environmental footprint than traditional textile printing simply because it employs only a little portion of the total of drinking water.

In addition to supporting apparel generation, Epson also supported the phase style and design by making use of its digital printing know-how in the output of paper sculptures. These sculptures had been critical things that helped to produce the vision of the blue-themed collection. The complete stage was enshrouded in illustrations or photos of Earth that were hand-painted by Yuima Nakazato. These illustrations or photos were enlarged and printed over a whole of 832 square meters of print paper using an SC-P20050 inkjet printer at the LFP Answer Heart in Epson’s Hirooka Office.

Armatures were being utilised to help the printed paper to build 3-dimensional objects d’art in the staging region. The armatures were created from employed paper from inside of Epson that was processed applying Epson’s Dry Fiber Know-how*. Epson collected the ornamental pieces utilised for the assortment immediately after the display ended and plans to examine their use in other apps with Yuima Nakazato.

Epson is committed to co-producing with associates to make a vast wide variety of its customers’ creations doable, and by its initiatives to reduce environmental impacts, understand its vision of obtaining sustainability and enriching communities.