Iris van Herpen
Celebrated as one of the most avant-garde and technologically innovative fashion designers of our time, Iris van Herpen's pioneering vision pushes the boundaries of traditional garment design and construction. Herpen perceives Haute Couture as a transformative language, an interdisciplinary entity that emerges from the space in which innovation and craftsmanship intersect. The dance in which the body and mind collaborate shape Herpen’s visionary creative process.
Collaboration is a way of life for all of us whether we recognize it or not.
For me, it is truly the act of balancing chaos and control. It is a way of living that allows for two or more individuals to contribute their strengths to a community... an organization... a common goal… a shared project... or even a simple task.
It can be an opportunity for possibilities that one alone perhaps can not see. Today’s Sunday Edition presents “Maverick” Artist Iris van Herpen and her long history of collaborators: choreographers, architects, musicians, actors, scientists, … even bacteria!
Presenting Herpen’s collaborations with Dutch National Ballet and New York City Ballet…
Iris van Herpen and Dutch National Ballet: Biomimicry
Iris van Herpen and New York City Ballet: NEVERWHERE
Presenting Herpen’s 2020 and 2021 Collections from Paris Fashion Week…
Iris van Herpen and Paris Fashion Week 2020: Sensory Seas
Iris partnered with a neuroanatomist from Spain, Ramón y Cajal, to create her Sensory Seas Collection. A neuroanatomist studies the science of our nervous system. Iris’s Sensory Seas Collection focused on the sensory processes that occur in the human body ‘mirrored with the fibrous marine ecology of our oceans’. Ramón’s scientific expertise seeks to understand how our brains communicate with the world around us.
Iris van Herpen and Paris Fashion Week 2021: Roots of Rebirth Collection
Iris continued to work through COVID-19 and presented her collection, Roots of Rebirth, at this year’s fashion week in Paris. Even though because of the coronavirus pandemic there were no in-person guests, designers shared their works by being physical with their teams and digital to fashion purveyors and audience members. When asked about designing this way, Iris shared…
‘My process is already quite chaotic in its nature, but obviously the last months have been more chaotic than usual,’mostly because a lot of the partners we work with, and a lot of the collaborations which are so key to my world and my way of thinking, were quite impossible. we really had to dance around our usual process and be very flexible in the speed of creation. COVID just challenged us even more…but, we worked through it, and ultimately there’s always a way.’
Presenting a gallery of Herpen’s collaborations with models, actors, musicians, and bacteria…
