Iris van Herpen

Iris van Herpen

Iris van Herpen during the Haute Couture Spring Summer 2012

Iris van Herpen during the Haute Couture Spring Summer 2012
Born (1984-06-05) June 5, 1984
Wamel, The Netherlands
Residence Amsterdam
Nationality Dutch
Occupation Fashion designer
Awards

2015 Marie-Claire Prix de la Mode, Best Dutch Conceptual Designer
2014 ANDAM Fashion Award
2013 Golden Eye Award
2013 Dutch Design Awards, category fashion
2013 Marie Claire prix de la Mode, best Dutch Designer
2010 Mercedes-Benz Dutch Fashion Awards
2010 Dutch Fashion Incubator Awards
2010 Dutch Accessory Awards
2010 Dutch Design Awards, RADO
2009 Dutch Design Awards, best product of fashion and accessory

2009 Dutch Media Awards
Website Iris van Herpen Official Website
Labels Iris van Herpen

Iris van Herpen (born 5 June 1984) is a Dutch fashion designer. She studied Fashion Design at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts Arnhem and interned at Alexander McQueen in London, and Claudy Jongstra in Amsterdam. Van Herpen immediately caught the eye with notable shows. In 2007, she started her own label. Since July 2011, she is a guest member of the prestigious Parisian Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, which is part of the Fédération française de la couture. She participates in many international exhibitions and creates two collections a year.

Career

Iris van Herpen had an intuitive appreciation of fashion and art as a youth. Her first passion was actually dance. It was when she attended the Preparatory Course Art & Design at ArtEZ during her high school years that she became particularly interested in designing clothes.

She graduated in 2006 from the fashion design department of ArtEZ. The department has a strong international reputation and lists notable graduates as Viktor & Rolf, Alexander van Slobbe (SO; Orson+Bodil), and Lucas Ossendrijver (Lanvin Homme). One year after graduating, Van Herpen launched her own fashion label. Iris van Herpen creates women’s wear collections. Her designs require every time a unique treatment of material or the creation of complete new materials. For this reason, Van Herpen prefers interdisciplinary research and collaborations with other artists.[1]

From the beginning of her career Iris van Herpen’s talent has been singled out as very promising and it has grown strong over the years. Her work has been recognized through awards, exhibitions, publications, and her guest membership of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture.

Collaborations

Iris van Herpen has collaborated with a number of artists from various disciplines, often on a recurring basis.

Artists/Architects: Isaie Bloch, Irene Bussemaker, Zach Gold, Stephen Jones, Rem Koolhaas, Russell Maliphant, Neri Oxman, Heaven Tanudiredja, Noritaka Tatehana

Musicians: Beyoncé,[2] Björk,[3][4] Grimes, Lady Gaga, Joey Yung

Photographers/Filmmakers: Nick Knight, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin,[5] Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Todd Selby, Joost Vandebrug

Other: Daphne Guinness, Casey Legler, Nanine Linning, Benjamin Millepied, Tilda Swinton

Style

3-D printed neckpiece by van Herpen, 2011.

Van Herpen’s fashion designs always express an interest in other art forms, and in a general curiosity of the world beyond fashion. Her collaborations during the research and making process are exemplary for this, as are her innovative experiments with materials, techniques and technologies.

As an aspiring fashion designer at the art academy, Van Herpen learned to work with soft fabric. She quickly felt limited by fabric, as she wanted to build, construct, and sculpt with the materials of which she created her designs. This forced her, already early on, to experiment with other materials, and later on to develop materials that approached her concept the closest.

Taken this into consideration, it is not surprising that ‘sculptural’ is a term much used to describe her work, and, indeed, the designs can function very well on their own as sculptures, as several exhibitions on her work have proven. Yet, the designs remain clothes they are not wearable sculptures, because there is another essential aspect to be taken into consideration: Van Herpen’s love for the body in movement. The design is only realized in equal interaction with the body. Van Herpen’s designs follow, complete, and change the body and the emotions that accompany it, when simultaneously the body adapts and adopts the new forms. Movement is key. It is of decisive importance for the ultimate design how a moving body reacts on a piece of clothing and, vice versa, how a piece of clothing behaves when worn.

Van Herpen’s decision to explore the Rapid prototyping technology of 3D printing allowed her to be the first to introduce this technology in fashion, and to create astonishing designs with it. Van Herpen became fascinated with the endless design potential of 3D printing. In recent collections she further developed her prints by adding detailed handwork.

The 3D prints only added to that other much-heard term to describe Van Herpen’s style: futuristic. Besides the use of new technologies, the term mostly refers to the appearance of her looks. What is very important to realize, though, is that her designs combine new technologies and diligent handwork. In fact, this is characteristic for all Van Herpen’s collections. Exactly this combination of handwork and innovative technologies brings Van Herpen to her edgy designs. She equally values techniques from the past and techniques and technologies of the future, because they have their own power and beauty that, when rightly combined, can be enhanced instead of being substituted by one another.

Collections

Iris' design from the show

Awards

  • 2015 Marie-Claire Prix de la Mode, Best Dutch Conceptual Designer
  • 2014 ANDAM Fashion Award
  • 2013 Golden Eye Award
  • 2013 Dutch Design Awards, category fashion
  • 2013 Marie Claire prix de la mode, best Dutch Designer
  • 2010 Mercedes-Benz Dutch Fashion Awards
  • 2010 Dutch Fashion Incubator Awards
  • 2010 Dutch Accessory Awards
  • 2010 Dutch Design Awards, RADO
  • 2009 Dutch Design Awards, best product of fashion and accessory
  • 2009 Dutch Media Awards

TIME Magazine names Iris van Herpen's 3D printed dresses one of the 50 Best Inventions of 2011.[15]

Exhibitions

  • 2015 Palais de Tokyo Museum, Le bord des Mondes exhibition, Paris, FR
  • 2015 Victoria & Albert Museum, What Is Luxury?, London, UK
  • 2015 Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration - Palais de la Porte Dorée, Fashion Mix: le parcours de l'exposition, Paris, FR
  • 2015 LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, Love and Loss: Fashion and Mortality, Linz, AT
  • 2014 FIT Museum, Dance & Fashion, NYC, US
  • 2014 Clash- Resistance in Fashion, Heart Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, DK
  • 2014 Bass Museum of Art, Vanitas: Fashion and Art, Miami Beach, US
  • 2014 A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, The World Chess Hall of Fame, Missouri, US
  • 2014 The Future of Fashion is Now, Boijmans Museum Rotterdam, NL
  • 2014 MAD Museum, Out of Hand. Materializing the Postdigital, NYC, US
  • 2014 Solo exhibition, overview of all collections Textilmuseet Boras in collaboration with Groninger Museum, Boras, SE
  • 2014 Mode, de musical, Centraal Museum Utrecht, NL
  • 2013 Solo exhibition, overview of all collections. Museum Cite-Dentelle in collaboration with Groninger Museum, Calais, FR
  • 2013 ArchiLab. Naturalizing Architecture at new FRAC Centre, Orléans, FR
  • 2013 Exhibition SHOWcabinet / SHOWstudio.com, London, UK
  • 2013 MºBA Fetishism in Fashion. Mode Biënnale Arnhem, NL
  • 2013 HAND MADE. Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2012 Iris van Herpen. Solo exhibition, Groninger Museum, Groningen, NL Groninger Museum Iris van Herpen
  • 2012 MICRO Impact. Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2012 Excellent Craft. Palace House of Orange. Berlin, DE
  • 2012 Iris van Herpen. SIEN, exhibition and an exclusive selection of Iris van Herpen. Opening October 13, 2012. Antwerp, BE
  • 2011 Self Structure. Lieu du Design, Paris, FR
  • 2011 London Design Festival. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
  • 2011 The New Craftsmanship. Iris van Herpen and her inspiration. Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
  • 2011 Basic Instinct. Berlin, DE
  • 2011 Mode Biennale Arnhem. Arnhem, NL
  • 2011 Material World. Art, Design and Fashion. Groninger Museum, Groningen, NL
  • 2011 Washed up (curated by Judith Clark). Selfridges department store, London, UK
  • 2011 Little Black Dress. The Civic gallery, Barnsley, UK
  • 2011 Transformation. Swarovski exhibition at flagship store in Vienna, AT
  • 2011 Fashion&Chocolate. Harbour City Exhibition, Hong Kong, CN
  • 2010 BLACK. Masters of Black in Fashion & Costume. MOMU, Antwerp, BE
  • 2010 Fashion & Architecture. ARCAM, Amsterdam, NL
  • 2010 In your Face. Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
  • 2010 Dutch Design Awards exhibition. Eindhoven, NL
  • 2010 Best of Dutch Design. Red Dot Museum, Essen, DE
  • 2010 Dutch Cultural Pop-up Space. London Fashion Week, London, UK
  • 2010 10xxx. Gallery Helpuzelven, Winterswijk, NL
  • 2010 Haute Couture Voici Paris. Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, NL
  • 2009 Harrods launches. In-store exhibition and sales, London, UK
  • 2009 Shape. Mode Biennale Arnhem, NL
  • 2009 Dutch Design Awards. Eindhoven, NL
  • 2009 Design Overtime. Eureka Night, Design Museum, London UK
  • 2009 Shanghai Creative Industries Week, Shanghai, CN
  • 2009 Rollan Didier meets Iris van Herpen. Gallery FashionMania, Amsterdam, NL
  • 2008 Bridges to Fashion. Historical Museum, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2008 Galeries Lafayette. Paris, FR
  • 2008 V!P Gallery. Rotterdam, NL
  • 2008 Mememachine Gallery, Tokyo, JP
  • 2007 SPRMRKT. Amsterdam, NL

Publications

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