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Nature is wild. Generated by powerful forces. Its proliferates by creating startling beauty. For her fifth collection as an invited member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, Iris van Herpen focuses on the forces of nature, with a back and forth between innovation and craftsmanship. Beyond simple visual inspiration, this wonder of the natural world forms the basis of wild experimentation. With the help of artists, scientists and architects, Iris van Herpen explores the intricacies of these forces trough the medium of fashion, and the sensitive poetics that have long characterized her aesthetic vocabulary.
Trough her collaboration with artist Jolan van der Wiel, who has spent several years ponderingthe possibilities of magnetism, they have created dresses whose very forms are generated by the phenomenon of attraction and repulsion. Iris van Herpen draws equally upon the life force that pulses through the sculptures of David Altmejd. His wild organic forms derived from the regenerative processes of nature have greatly inspired Beyond Wilderness. She proposes to reach this wild nature freedom into the human body and soul. The human spiritis forged of this same vital energy, coursing and erupting through the limits of the body in suchresplendent displays of extreme tradition or technology as piercings, scarification or surgery. This wild(er)ness of the human body, as unchecked as it is intimate, is one that the designer hassought to reveal the collection. Balancing respect for the traditions of atelier craftsmanship, with each garment subject to individual handwork, Iris van Herpen has nonetheless broadened the horizons of her domain: materials and processes.
With architect Isaie Bloch and Materialise she continues to develop the innovative 3D-printed dresses, which she was the first to present in both static and flexible forms. On the one hand, her long-term collaboration with Canadian architect Philip Beesley and, on the other had , her partnership with United Nude’s Rem D. Koolhaas and Stratasys witch has led to a line of shoes, help to spread the spirit of the collection.
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The “Hybrid” dress was created in close collaboration with Isaie Bloch (the same Belgian artist who previously collaborated with Iris on the design of the “Skeleton Dress“, “Cathedral Dress” and the memorable neck accessory from the “Voltage” collection), as well as Materialise, the company that made 9 out of Iris van Herpen’s 10 3D printed pieces. Re-visiting the process of stereolithography that was used to make the “Liquid Honey” dress, the bone-like pieces were from clear liquid resin. Once created, the bone pieces were, according to Materialise “over-moulded in silicon by Iris van Herpen’s team, a process that demands great skill and which took weeks to complete”.
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