The Shapeways site has an entire category dedicated to fashion which is largely made up of accessories, but once designers figure out how to stitch all the pieces together we should be seeing more and more garments.

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Emma Hill, creative director of fashion company Mulberry, is made an MBE for services to the British Fashion Industry.

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Solar cells are also made of silicon, and the latest fashion is to concentrate sunlight on them using mirrors.

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Best at summing up his motives, and in characteristically terse fashion, is Gerry Lenfest who made a fortune selling his cable business to Comcast in 2000.

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Jeff Banks, whose career in fashion and home furnishings design has spanned more than 40 years, is to become a CBE, while Frances Corner, head of the London College of Fashion, will be made an OBE.

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