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In the past few months

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I've been traveling for weeks at a time
with only one suitcase of clothes.

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One day I was invited
to an important event,

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and I wanted to wear
something special and new for it.

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So I looked through my suitcase
and I couldn't find anything to wear.

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I was lucky to be at the technology
conference on that day,

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and I had access to 3D printers.

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So I quickly designed
a skirt on my computer,

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and I loaded the file on the printer,

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which was printing the pieces overnight.

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The next more I just took all the pieces,

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assembled them together in my hotel room,

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and this is actually the skirt
that I'm wearing right now.

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(Applause)

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So it wasn't the first time
that I printed clothes.

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For my senior collection
at fashion design school,

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I decided to try and 3D print
an entire fashion collection from my home.

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The problem was that I barely knew
anything about 3D printing,

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and I had only nine months to figure out
how to print five fashionable looks.

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I always felt most creative
when I worked from home.

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I loved experimenting with new materials,

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and I always try to develop new techniques

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to make the most unique textiles
for my fashion projects.

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I love going to old factories
and weird stores

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in search of leftovers of strange powders
and weird materials,

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and I bring them home to experiment on.

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As you can probably imagine,

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my roommates didn't like that at all.

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(Laughter)

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So I decided to move on
to working with big machines,

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ones that didn't fit in my living room.

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I love the exact and custom work I can do
with all kinds of fashion technologies,

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like knitting machines,
and laser cutting, and silk printing.

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One summer break,

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I came here to New York for an internship
at a fashion house in Chinatown.

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We worked on two incredible dresses
that were 3D printed.

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They were amazing --
like you can see here.

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But I had a few issues with them.

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They were made from hard plastics
and that's why they were very breakable.

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The models couldn't sit in them,

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and they even got scratched
from the plastics under their arms.

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With 3D printing,

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the designers had so much freedom


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to make the dresses look
exactly like they wanted,

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but still, they were very dependent
on a big and expensive industrial printer

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that was located in lab
far from their studio.

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Later that year, a friend gave me
a 3D printed necklace,

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printed using a home printer.

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I knew these printers were much cheaper
and much more accessible

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than the ones we used at my internship.

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So I looked at the necklace,

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and then I thought,

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"If I can print a necklace from home,
why not print my clothes from home, too?"

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I really liked the idea that I wouldn't
have to go to the market

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and pick fabrics that
someone else chose to sell.

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I could just design them and print them
directly from home.

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I found a small maker's space

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where I learned everything
I know about 3D printing.

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Right away, they literally gave me
the key to the lab,

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so I could experiment
into the night, every night.

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The main challenge was to find the right
filament for printing clothes with.

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So what is filament?

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Filament is the material
you feed the printer with.

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And I spent a month of so
experimenting with PLA,

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which is a hard and scratchy,
breakable material.

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The breakthrough came
when I was introduced to Filaflex,

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which is a new kind of filament.

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It's strong, yet very flexible.

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And with it, I was able to print
the first garment.

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The red jacket that had
the word "Liberté" --

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freedom in french --

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embedded into it.

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I chose this word because I felt
so empowered and free

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when I could just design a garment
from my home

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and then print it by myself.

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And actually,

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you can easily download this jacket,

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and easily change the word
to something else.

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For example, your name
or your sweetheart's name.

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(Laughter)

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So the printer pieces are small,

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so I had to piece all the garments
together, just like a puzzle.

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And I wanted to solve another challenge.

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I wanted to print textiles

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that I would just like a regular fabric.

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That's when I found an open source file

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from an architect who designed
a pattern that I love.

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And with it, I was able to print
a beautiful textile

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that I was able to use
just like a regular fabric.

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And it actually even looks
a little bit like lace.

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So I took his file and I modified it,
and changed it, played with it --

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many kinds of versions out of it.

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And I needed to print
another 1500 more hours

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to complete printing my collection.

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So I brought six printers to my home
and just printed 24-7.

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And this is actually
a really slow process,

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but let's remember the internet
was significantly slower 20 years ago,

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so 3D printing will also accelerate

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and in no time you'll be able to print
a T-Shirt in your home

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in just a couple of hours,
or even minutes.

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So you guys, you want to see
what it looks like?

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(Yeah)

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(Applause)

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So Rebecca is wearing
one of my five outfits.

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Almost everything here she's wearing,
I printed from my home.

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Even her shoes are printed.

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(Applause)

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Thank you, Rebecca.

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Thank you, guys.

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So I think in the future,
material will evolve.

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And they will look and feel
like fabrics we know today,

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like cotton or silk.

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Imagine personalized clothes
that fit exactly to your measurements.

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So music was once a very physical thing.

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You would have to go
to the record shop and buy CDs,

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but now you can just download the music,
digital music, directly to your phone.

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Fashion is also a very physical thing.

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And I wonder what our world will look like

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when our clothes will be digital,
just like this skirt is.

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Thank you so much.

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(Applause)

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[Thank you]