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Burlesque dancer and fashion icon Dita Von Teese debuted the world’s first fully 3D-printed dress at the Ace Hotel in New York City. The dress was created virtually. Schmidt designed the entire dress on his iPad and communicated with Bitonti through Skype during the process of imagining 17 unique pieces and 3,000 joints that let the dress move with the body. The biggest challenge in creating the dress was working with materials that weren’t malleable as they came out of the printer. “To do that you have to break it down into individual components so it can become something sensual,”…