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Fabrican Dress Sprayed Directly Onto Model On Coperni Runway
A science-fictional twist to fashion was demonstrated on Coperni runway at Paris Fashion Week last month.
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I've described the Fabrican spray-on clothing technology before; the company was founded by a Royal College of Art post-grad.
Marvelous science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem wrote about spray-on clothing in his 1961 novel Return from the Stars :
I could see how that might appeal to women, because by discharging from a few or a few dozen bottles a liquid that immediately set into fabrics with textures smooth or rough--velvet, fur, or pliable metal--they could have a new creation every time, each for one occasion only...
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