Fashion designer Yuima Nakazato and one of his creations made with Fujifilm technology
Fashion designer Yuima Nakazato’s Paris Haute Couture Collection utilised Fujifilm inkjet technology to create dazzling dresses.
Yuima Nakazato’s creations employ ‘hologram’ light effects. Images are printed onto holographic material using Fujifilm’s Acuity Select 20 wide-format UV inkjet printer, together with the company’s high-elongation Uvijet KV ink, which enables graphics to be printed on a composite transparent backing material.
To create a single unit of the dress, an A5-sized piece of printed material is finely cut and folded into shape. Over 1000 were combined and assembled to match the model’s figure – forming a dress without any stitching.
‘I had always wanted to expand the expressive range of holograms, but as the surfaces of films are extremely smooth, there was always an issue of getting the ink to adhere even if you could print on the film,’ explained Mr Nakazato. ‘What’s more, as we’re using this material for fashion, there is a lot of friction and it needs to be extremely robust.
‘[Fujifilm] ink fixes extremely well,’ he continued; ‘if, after printing, you cut the material with a plotter or form it into units by hand, there are no problems such as ink detachment and robustness is extremely high.’
The designer also created boots that use a holographic print created from photographs of Iceland.
Yuima Nakazato is the first official Japanese guest designer to take part in the Paris Haute Couture Collection since Hanae Mori 12 years ago.
