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Impressum

Vol.12  Issue 06/00, 29.05.2012

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Impressions Haute Couture S/S 2012 Part 4

Collection Iris Van Herpen & Rami al Ali

 

 

 

 

 

Iris Van Herpen

 

 

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Iris Van Herpen Couture Spring-Summer 2012

Iris Van Herpen has been graduated from the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem(Netheriands) in 2006. After being an intern for Alexander Me Queen and a few other prestigious designers, she decided to launch her own label under her name in 2007. Her unique and very avant-garde sense of style has brought her brand attention from the most sought after publications in the industry. In addition to the covers, her talent has been recognized and awarded by professionals through different awards such as the Dutch Fashion Awards or the RADO Young designer Awards. Iris reached her apogee when she became a member of the prestigious Chambre Syndical de la Haute Couture.

Creativity is such a keyword for Iris Van Herpen. She managed to create her own style and signature by combining traditional craftsmanship, high-level of handwork and innovative techniques. The avant-garde aspect of her style spirit goes through creation but also materials, she likes radical materials choices such as leather, synthetic boat rigging, plexiglass or the whale bones of children's umbrellas. The result gives a sculptural effect with an astonishing visual impact. As Iris Van Herpen perceives fashion like a form of self-expression, she gives every of her outfits its own narration reflecting her very own spirit and state of mind.

For her new collection Iris Van Herpen has been inspired by nature and that's what Iris Van Herpen is reflecting through her new Haute Couture collection. Microscopic organisms form a real wide world, complex and incredible. For this new season Iris Van Herpen has been influenced by this invisible and microscopic world through a scientific approach of it thanks to Steve Gschmeissner a photographer specialized in micro-diversity for Scientific Bedford. She gives us an overview of this world we barely have an idea of. The creator wants to show the beauty of bacilli, vermin... A beauty which is half-way between extraordinary and bizarre.

Iris Van Herpen has been fascinating and still is about that hundreds of thousands to even several millions of species that men haven't discover yet and tries in her way to give the world her perception of it. In order to create her collection and fit her theme, she decided to use 3D printing in addition to handwork, those two are at each other's service and become one. As a perfectionist, she has collaborated with different people experts in their fields like Isaie Bloch, architect, Tara Doughans, graphic artist, Michael Hansmeyer, artist or the 3D print company Materialise and in this way creates exactly what she wants. To her, 3D prints are a base structure and not the final product: for instance; part of the collection will be 3D printed and finished by hand with another layer. One 3D print is coated of a 2D print by Tara Doughans. Handmade pieces also complete 3D printing as laser-techniques have been used to create the same structure and complexity as 3D prints.

The main colors of this collection are light: white and beige but also ray-grey, brown, copper, dark metal silver and metallic aubergine. Regarding the shoes, like the previous collections, Iris Van Herpen collaborated with United Nude for a new pair of shoe named FANG shoe that comes in several different colors and different heels. Iris Van Herpen likes to make organic outfits and tries to make it her motto. Machines, technologies, handwork, collaborations, they all merge together within one design representing one way of thinking: Iris Van Herpen's one.

This collection is a collaboration of Iris Van Herpen with hat designer Stephen Jones, artist Bart Hess, architect Isaie Bloch, graphic designer Tara Doughans and shoe label United Nude.

 

 

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Rami al Ali

 

 

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