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Pink was the color of the night of the Met Gala yesterday, with Lady Gaga, Kacey Musgraves, Janelle Monea, and so much more, putting their own shades on the pink hue. The actress Deepika Padukone was one of the people present, dressed in a structural princess dress from Zac Posen with a surprising technological twist: she was covered with hundreds of 3D printed embellishments.
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Posen has partnered with GE Additive and Protolabs to create a number of 3D looks and accessories for the audience. including Jourdan Dunn, Nina Dobrev and Katie Holmes for the evening of last night. The designer started working with GE a year ago and the parts were made in Pittsburgh, WWD .
Padukone's metallic pink lurex jacquard dress contained a complex layered skirt spotted with 408 balls inspired by sea urchins and sewn by hand onto the fabric. The ornaments were created using stereolithography, a 3D printing technique in which a structure is built layer by layer with the aid of a liquid substance solidified by a laser. Once the accessories were created, they were metallized and painted. The process of creating these decorations took over 160 hours.