Iris van Herpen

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Iris van Herpen (born June 5, 1984 in Wamel , Netherlands ) is a Dutch fashion designer .

Life

Van Herpen, who was originally interested in dance, studied fashion design at the Akademie für Bildende Künste Arnhem ( ArtEZ ) until 2006 and then worked as an intern a. a. with Alexander McQueen in London and Claudy Jongstra in Amsterdam . In 2007 she founded her own fashion label Iris van Herpen , under which she markets both haute couture and wearable fashion for women ( prêt-à-porter ). In addition, she occasionally designs costumes for dance performances or for stage shows by artists such as Björk (e.g. for the Biophilia tour) or Lady Gaga . In July 2011 she became a guest member of the renowned Parisian Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture . Renowned fashion magazines such as Vogue , Harper's Bazaar or Dazed & Confused report on their creations. The TIME Magazine praised one of her designed in 3D printing made dress as one of the "fifty best inventions of 2011".

style

Iris van Herpen's creations are perceived in the professional world as avant-garde , innovative and experimental and located in the "border area of ​​art, design and fashion". In clothing fashion, unusual materials such as polyamide , acrylic glass or lonarite and manufacturing processes such as rapid prototyping and 3D printing are used. The results are "both organic and futuristic-looking sculptural effects with astonishing visual impact".

  • Björk, Biophilia tour

  • Stole ( 3D print ), 2011

  • Haute Couture, 2012

  • Haute Couture, 2012

  • Haute Couture, 2012

Collections

Van Herpen's previous collections have been shown at internationally renowned fashion shows:

  • FRAGILE FUTURITY - July 2007, Amsterdam Fashion Week
  • CHEMICAL CROWS - January 2008, Amsterdam Fashion Week
  • REFINERY SMOKE - July 2008, Amsterdam Fashion Week
  • MUMMIFICATION - January 2009, Amsterdam Fashion Week
  • RADIATION INVASION - September 2009, London Fashion Week
  • SYNESTHESIA - February 2010, London Fashion Week
  • CRYSTALLIZATION - July 2010, Amsterdam Fashion Week
  • CAPRIOLE - July 2011, Paris Haute Couture Week
  • MICRO - January 2012, Paris Haute Couture Week
  • HYBRID HOLISM - July 2012, Paris Haute Couture Week
  • VOLTAGE - January 2013, Paris Haute Couture Week
  • WILDERNESS EMBODIED - July 2013, Paris Haute Couture week
  • EMBOSSED SOUNDS - October 2013, Paris Fashion Week
  • BIOPIRACY - March 2014, Paris Fashion Week
  • MAGNETIC MOTION - September 2014, Paris Fashion Week
  • HACKING INFINITY - March 2015, Paris Fashion Week
  • QUAQUAVERSAL - October 2016, Paris Fashion Week

Awards

Van Herpen has been awarded numerous prizes for its creations, apart from the Dutch Design Awards in 2009, 2010 and 2013 these have been:

  • 2009 - Dutch Media Awards
  • 2010 - Dutch Accessory Awards
  • 2010 - Dutch Fashion Incubator Awards
  • 2010 - Mercedes-Benz Dutch Fashion Awards
  • 2013 - Golden Eye Award
  • 2013 - Marie Claire prix de la mode (best Dutch Designer)
  • 2014 - ANDAM Awards Grand Prix
  • 2015 - Marie-Claire Prix de la mode (best dutch conceptual designer)

Exhibitions

Several solo exhibitions have been dedicated to Iris van Herpen's work:

  • 2011 - The New Craftsmanship. Iris van Herpen and her inspiration. Centraal Museum Utrecht (Netherlands)
  • 2012 - Iris van Herpen. SIEN, exhibition and an exclusive selection of Iris van Herpen. Antwerp (Belgium)
  • 2012 - Iris van Herpen. Groninger Museum (Netherlands)
  • 2013 - Solo exhibition with an overview of all collections. Museum Cite-Dentelle, Calais (France)
  • 2014 - Solo exhibition with an overview of all collections. Borås (Sweden)
  • 2015 - Iris van Herpen - Transforming Fashion. High Museum of Art , Atlanta (USA)

In addition, she was a participant in numerous group exhibitions, including a. in Paris , London , Tokyo , Shanghai , New York , Berlin and Amsterdam .

Web links

Commons : Iris van Herpen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Time Magazine, 50 best inventions of 2011. Retrieved March 20, 2016 .
  2. ↑ TIME Magazine named Iris van Herpen's 3D printed dress one of the 50 Best Inventions of the 2011. i.materialize, accessed on March 20, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Iris van Herpen. Vogue , accessed March 20, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c Iris van Herpen. (No longer available online.) Groninger Museum , archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; accessed on March 20, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.groningermuseum.nl
  5. ↑ a b c Iris van Herpen: About. Iris van Herpen, accessed March 20, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Herpen, Iris van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch fashion designer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th June 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Wamel , Netherlands