Love & Robots: Plumage

Unveiled during Dutch Design Week and made from over 6,000 components parts that give the illusion of real feathers, Plumage is the first 3d printed, free-moving, customizable cape.

Love & Robots in collaboration with Niamh Lunny, Plumage

A collaboration between design studio Love & Robots, and costume designer Niamh Lunny, Plumage looks at traditional costume and how it can be reinterpreted using new digital design and 3d printing technologies.

It is an exploration of patterns in fabric such as knit and lace, as well as 3-dimensional structures and surfaces, and natural phenomena.

Love & Robots have previously experimented with 3D printing chainmail structures, as well as complex organic patterns, but the Plumage Cape extends those explorations to construct a piece of clothing that can be printed in one piece without any assembly required.

All feathers are customisable and can be re-designed personally according to each wearer’s style.