She is one of the pioneering designers using 3D technology in fashion designs.
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Designs using 3D printing or laser cutting technology are typical of Iris Van Herpen
Van Herpen’s collections are increasingly displayed in major museums.
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Iris Van Herpen’s Fall-Winter collection will be displayed at the Manus x Machina exhibition at the New York Metropolitan Museum
If at Paris Fashion Week Spring-Summer 2016/17, Iris Van Herpen brought the collection `Magnetic Motion` to designs inspired by the Large Hadron Collider machine at the Cern nuclear research organization in Switzerland.
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Iris Van Herpen’s `Lucid Dream` collection at Paris Fashion Week Fall-Winter 2016/17
The dress designs seem to come out of Iris Van Herpen’s dream
The concept of lucid dreaming occurs when the dreamer realizes that he is dreaming and can control and direct his dream.
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Exquisite handcrafted details in Iris Van Herpen’s Fall-Winter Collection
Symmetrical, harmonious spirals are the result of skillful craftsmanship in Iris Van Herpen’s designs.
Let’s join ELLE.VN to admire the intricately pleated designs in Iris Van Herpen’s Fall-Winter 2016/17 collection at the recent Paris Fashion Week.
The outstanding bubble dresses in the collection are extremely delicately processed on plastic material under the coordination of architect Philip Beesley, who has collaborated with Van Herpen on her previous collections.
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Short-sleeved dresses are the main look in Iris Van Herpen’s Fall-Winter collection.
Iris Van Herpen’s dresses are reminiscent of giant transparent puzzles with surreal curves created by translucent `bubbles` on neutral tones such as nude, black or light gray.
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Dream-like bubble skirt design
Another bubble dress design from Iris
Through the Fall-Winter collection at the recent Paris Fashion Week, Iris Van Herpen constantly breaks the boundaries of 3D printing technology in her designs.
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The show closed with 2 Magma dress models created with 5,000 pieces using the familiar 3D printing technology of Iris Van Herpen’s designs.
The show closed with 2 Magma dress models created with 5,000 pieces using the familiar 3D printing technology of Iris Van Herpen’s designs.
In addition to the beautiful fictional sculpture-like dresses that have made her name, Iris Van Herpen also brings viewers into a dreamy state with her `ghost` dress designs processed on a thin tulle background.
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Iris Van Herpen FW16/17
Another design with the same style
To close, when mentioning Iris Van Herpen’s famous collections, it is impossible not to mention the shoes with unique soles thanks to laser cutting or 3D printing technology, in collaboration with major shoe brands.
Shoes with thin transparent soles create the illusion that the models are floating above the ground
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