According to van Herpen, motivation to collaborate with Oxman came after seeing her ' Imaginary Beings : Mythologies of the Not Yet ' collection - 3D printed by Stratasys' matchless Objet Connex multi-material 3D printing technology - that featured in the Multiversités Créatives exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, last spring. Oxman explains that the joint venture is very much an extension of the series: