Manel Torres technology becomes the highlight of Fashion Week in Paris

The Catalan designer formed in London created the 'cloth in spray' in 2012 and collaborated beside Coperni the same year

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03 of October of 2022
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Bella Hadid x Coperni
Bella Hadid x Coperni

Possibly, it was the image of the Week of the Fashion of Paris. The 'Paris Fashion Week' started the past 26 September, and will finalise tomorrow, but possibly, the moment cusp of this edition already have produced .

Everyone talks about him. Last Friday, American model Bella Hadid overshadowed the catwalk. During the parade of Coperni, the model attracted the attention of all the assistants and media. His body was sprayed by aerosols, and just afterwards, transformed in an encircled white dress with neckline that left the model’s shoulders uncovered, after being subtly retouched by a Coperni fashion assistant. Definitely, this phenomenon has left to the world speechless. The spectacular, is that behind this last tendency of Coperni that has fascinado to all the world, hides a technology with Spanish DNA, and more specifically, Catalan, as it aims elnacional.cat.

Although the visible face is the Parisian signature Coperni because it is the one who has given international visibility to this innovation, behind everything, is Manel Torres, who also was present the Friday night and commissioned that the product will arrive to all the corners of the body of the model. This Catalan originary of Urgell, is founder of Fabrican, a company that devotes from does almost two decades to the investigation and creation of the cloth in spray.

Manel Torres created Fabrican in the 2003, in London, after forming in the Royal Collage of Art, considered from does years like the best centre of studies related with the art and the design. In the year 2012, was when Manel Torres and Fabrican hit the spot: they created the cloth in spray. And, also, just in this year, established a collaboration beside Coperni to present this new format in the world of the fashion, but that did not cause the same impact that has produced this time, that has given the turn to the world.

Manel Torres explains in what consists his technology for 'Discovery Channel'

Advantages and uses of the cloth in spray further of the fashion

The spray that wrapped the silhouette of Bella Hadid is composed by cotton and synthetic fibres in a solution of polymers that when going in in contact with the skin, evaporate . From they Manufacture, they aim to that his technology will allow derruir the barriers that can have the designers put that "will allow to the user customise his closet with infinite combinations and will free to the designers, leaving them create new and only pieces". Another advantage of this 'cloth in spray', is the process of creation: you can have it within a matter of minutes. Besides, Torres does reference to the economic price of these products and of this way, opens the door to multiple sectors.

Although we have known this technology in the sector of the fashion, FabricanLtd also present his decorative function: it can be used in handicrafts, decoration of interiors of cars and in the sector of the cleaning, can be used to create bayetas esterilizadas. Also in the medical sector, since as it exposed Towers in his presentation, this tool allows to create intelligent fabrics with active particles that include perfumes or farmacological products, as substitutive of clinical bandages.