EPSON announces design partnership using textile inkjet technology

EPSON’s partnership has combined digital textile inkjet and dry fibre technologies to create new clothes from recycled, re-fibreised fabrics. The company has further progressed its partnership with renowned Japanese fashion designer Yuima Nakazato and his eponymous Yuima Nakazato brand that aims for better sustainability in fashion and has now resulted in the creation of a new couture collection displayed during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week at the Palais de Tokyo.

The new collection has been created, in most part, using a combination of Epson’s more sustainable digital textile printing technology and a new fabric production process that has the potential to transform the fashion industry, contributing significantly to the creation of an innovative, colourful and ground-breaking collection of beautifully designed couture pieces. EPSON’s dry fibre technology, which is already used commercially to recycle paper and requires virtually no water to produce, has been adapted to produce new non-woven re-fibreised fabric from used and discarded garments.