Digital perfection

Yuima Nakazato says technology will make it possible to mass-produce bespoke haute couture outfits.[Photo /Agencies]

He says his 1950s-themed show was a taster of what might be possible.

During that decade "haute couture brought back elegance and luxury to the minds of people fatigued by the war, and mass-produced jeans became the world's first truly universal attire," he adds.

Technology now offered the possibility of putting those two things together, he argues.

Nakazato says the major breakthrough was finding a way to use everyday fabrics like cotton, nylons and wool "which are difficult to control in digital fabrication. That was the most difficult part. But in the end we succeeded".

While the young designer admits that his work was very much at the experimental stage, he insists that "future mass customization is possible".

"There is still a lot of work by hand" in putting the clothes together, Nakazato says. "It is like technology and craftsmanship put together."