mono.kultur #47 / Iris van Herpen: The Unknownness of Everything (en Inglés)
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mono.kultur #47 IRIS VAN HERPEN: THE UNKNOWNNESS OF EVERYTHING “We’re living in the alchemist’s dream right now.”Summer 2019 / English / 15 x 20 cm / 48 Pages / Pages Trimmed to Dfferent Sizes Read an extensive interview with Dutch fashion couture designer Iris van Herpen ‘Haute couture’s chief scientist’, ‘sorceress of style’, ‘avant-garde technologist’ are just some of the terms used to describe the extraordinary Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen. Having launched her label in 2007, van Herpen soon gained attention for her futuristic, otherworldly creations. Whether developing 3D printed dresses, materials grown by the forces of magnetism, or clothes mimicking the different states of water: her collections frequently combine cutting-edge technologies with craftsmanship, fusing artistry with sheer inventiveness. The results are, quite simply, spectacular. Iris van Herpen’s designs are fueled by her curiosity beyond fashion, drawing from disciplines like architecture, science, and technology. She has worked with numerous specialists and artists, developing dresses for Tilda Swinton, Beyoncé, and Björk, while also conversing with scientists at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, on her constant quest to develop new materials. It is an open-ended approach of collaboration and experiment, of channeling different influences and disciplines into a vision that is wide open and singular all at the same time. In a thrilling and expansive conversation with mono.kultur, Iris van Herpen talked about fashion as a form of art, the inspirations of lucid dreaming, and the exquisite sensation of skydiving. The issue presents a small retrospective of a decade of Iris van Herpen’s designs with images by some of the luminaries of contemporary fashion photography, including Inez & Vinoodh, Juergen Teller, Ellen von Unwerth, and Nick Knight. And since everything is related, we let ourselves be inspired by Iris’ multi-dimensional design practice, manipulating the very paper the issue is printed on, with each page cut away to reveal slivers of what is lying underneath. Interview by Charmaine Li Photography by Mathieu Cesar; Robert Clark; Bryan Huynh; Inez & Vinoodh; ioulex; Nick Knight; Luigi & Iango; Jean-Baptiste Mondino; Armin Morbach; Petrovsky & Ramone; Warren du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones; Ronald Stoops; Emma Summerton; Sølve Sundsbø; Juergen Teller; Ellen von Unwerth; Duy Vo; Michel Zoeter Design by mono.studio mono.kultur is an independent interview series based in Berlin. Our concept is as simple as it is elegant: one artist / one conversation / one issue. No more, no less. And so each publication is dedicated exclusively and entirely to one artist, edited with care and in close collaboration with the artist. Each issue is redesigned entirely around the artist and their work. Read more
