Fashion that’s out of this world: made of plastic ink fired from a 3D pen, Japanese nurse’s designs marry glamour and tech
- Seiran Tsuno may have not sold a single item yet, but her dresses with swirling colours and patterns created by 3D pens are a social media sensation
- She gets inspiration for her creations from her day job – she works as a psychiatric nurse at a specialist facility in Hokkaido
Spanning all the colours of the neon rainbow, many of Seiran Tsuno’s creations “sit upon” the person who is wearing them, rather than enveloping them in the way clothes traditionally do. But then there’s nothing traditional about the way that Tsuno approaches her art.
Her designs are created with 3D pens and form something approaching an external skeleton of tiny, fine bones but are in other places used to depict swirling patterns, flower-like and delicate. Her range includes a tutu with a bodice in pink and a hat with a fringe that cascades over the wearer’s face like a waterfall, but it is the ethereal dresses that really catch the eye.
The shoulders and upper arms are unnaturally large, the waists are cinched and the outsize tubular legs protrude in front of the wearer like additional limbs.
It is a style that is uniquely Tsuno’s and first manifested itself during her time studying to become a nurse.
“When I went to nursing college, I found there was a wide gap between that world and reality, which was extremely stressful,” she told the Post. “To relieve that stress, I started to paint my face completely white and to wear large head decorations that I made myself when I would go out into the town.”