, an Oakland, California-based fashion technology company. The firm worked with Eckhaus to develop 3-D woven garments that are the first of their kind to appear on a major runway.
That's maybe more engineering jargon than you bargain for at fashion week, but it matters. A New York Fashion Week staple electing for a futuristic design process like this has big implications for how we shop luxury fashion and who can shop for it. Unspun's technology allows labels obsessed with craftsmanship and quality to make orders on demand without fabric waste .
"They saw potential that maybe we didn't even see in [our technology] because of the creativity that they brought," Esponnette said.Latta said that the technology was hard for her to wrap her head around before she saw it firsthand. Then she and her team traveled to Unspun's Oakland headquarters, to take in the cavernous warehouse hosting Unspun's proprietary machines and lay the foundations for their eventual collaboration.