ABSTRACT
Fashioning the Future focuses on the work of fashion designer Iris van Herpen and its strong relation to architecture. Firmly rooted in the fashion world, with red-carpet events and a secure spot on the official Parisian Haute Couture Calendar, her interdisciplinary and collaborative oeuvre is mesmerizing and stunningly beautiful, yet also ventures into the realm of biology, science and technology in the most imaginative and perplexing ways. Combining unusual elements, traditional craftsmanship and the latest digital production technologies, van Herpen develops striking silhouettes and new materials and structures that challenge the boundaries between fashion and architecture, handmade and machine-made, and the natural versus the synthetic. Van Herpen’s body of work points to future possibilities and novel relations that compel us to rethink our relation to fashion, technology and the world at large.
