But one young Canberran is trying to shake up fashion conventions by taking her digital dreams to the 2017 Vancouver Fashion Week.
Charne Esterhuizen has made an entire dress using 3D printers and hopes to make the industry more sustainable for future generations.
Standing at 175 centimetres tall the dress is made completely out of rubber printed butterflies.
"For one butterfly to be printed it takes five and a half hours ... and the dress consists of 130 to 150 butterflies," the 23-year-old said.
