Danit Peleg made history. In 2015, she became the first-ever fashion designer to create a collection made entirely using desktop 3D home printers. Based in Tel-Aviv, Israel, Peleg has since future-focused her design and production, with 3D printing and blockchain being her tools.
Her statement piece is The Liberte Jacket, the result of 300 hours using 6 desktop 3D printers that worked 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 2 straight weeks. This snazzy jacket forms part of a collection that took 9 months of research and development, as part of her graduate coursework at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. Peleg’s leap in the dark soon became the talk of the town: 3D printing for fashion at the time was still catching on, realising a whole collection created by it was fairly ambitious.
Her method is certainly environmentally-conscious. The digital experimentation process allowed Peleg to virtually simulate a myriad of possibilities without generating unnecessary material waste. Using Blender to model her first garment, Peleg experimented with various printing filaments and printers. The final product regales in the flexibility of TPU, chosen over its brittle predecessor, PLA.
Danit Peleg is a much-needed force in the fashion industry. Her passionate commitment towards more sustainable and ethical design and production has propelled her to create beautiful, cutting-edge work using equally beautiful, cutting-edge methods that could indeed become the new norm. The Liberte Jacket in itself is named as a testament to this, liberating us from waste and pollution and opening the door to a freer, cleaner world, where design and beauty are a solution not a problem. This is a clear rejection of fast-fashion, one of the most polluting industries in the world: after all, besides the numerous toxic chemicals used in production, at least 15% of material is wasted during the cutting of the fabrics.
Since then, Danit Peleg’s advanced to digitising fashion in the forms of NFTs and other downloadable products. Her aim? We’re set for a revolution: by 2030, she hopes that 3D printing might become being a major player in the clothes-making industry. Her socials are already hinting at it, they’re adorned by digital versions of fashion for our future. Peleg now sells the digital file of the clothing item instead of the actual garment, which we can download and 3D print at home.
