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In our next project, we explore the possibility of creating a cape and skirt like a second skin that are made of a single part, stiff at the contours, flexible around the waist. this was for a Paris fashion show with Iris van Herpen	Success depends on a thorough overhaul of a rigid, threatening system Flowers and ornamental plants (excluding nurseries), which for the whole of their period of growth or for the predominant part of it are covered by greenhouses or fixed or mobile high cover (glass or rigid or flexible plastic). Capturing is rigid, seizing is flexible. With this test has to be found out whether a plastic is to be classed into the categories of rigid or flexible plastics. Crops, which for the whole of their period of growth or for the predominant part of it are covered by greenhouses or fixed or mobile high cover (glass or rigid or flexible plastic). 'Guided load': load where the total movement is made along rigid or flexible guides, whose position is determined by fixed points. Identification of, and types of rigid and flexible pipes and their connectors used in aircraft; These can be either rigid or flexible with a wide range of uses in the building and other trades as structural components, sealers, fillers, moulds and adhesives.

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In our next project, we explore the possibility of creating a cape and skirt
like a second skin that are made of a single part, stiff at the contours, flexible around the waist.
this was for a Paris fashion show with Iris van Herpen

Success depends on a thorough overhaul of a rigid, threatening system
Flowers and ornamental plants (excluding nurseries), which for the whole of their period of growth or for the predominant part of it are covered by greenhouses or fixed or mobile high cover (glass or rigid or flexible plastic).
Capturing is rigid, seizing is flexible.
With this test has to be found out whether a plastic is to be classed into the categories of rigid or flexible plastics.
Crops, which for the whole of their period of growth or for the predominant part of it are covered by greenhouses or fixed or mobile high cover (glass or rigid or flexible plastic).
'Guided load': load where the total movement is made along rigid or flexible guides, whose position is determined by fixed points.
Identification of, and types of rigid and flexible pipes and their connectors used in aircraft;
These can be either rigid or flexible with a wide range of uses in the building and other trades as structural components, sealers, fillers, moulds and adhesives.