Iris van Herpen

Iris van Herpen is a Dutch fashion designer. Van Herpen studied Fashion Design at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts Arnhem and interned with British fashion designer, Alexander McQueen in London, and Dutch fabric/ installation artist Claudy Jongstra. In July, 2011 he was invited as a guest of the Parisian Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture.

From IrisvanHerpen.com (7-30-15):

"Normal rules don’t apply…..

Iris van Herpen stands for a reciprocity between craftsmanship and innovation in technique and materials. She creates a modern view on Haute Couture that combines fine handwork techniques with digital technology .Van Herpen forces fashion to the extreme contradiction between beauty and regeneration. It is her unique way to reevaluate reality and so to express and underline individuality.

The essence of van Herpen is expressing the character and emotions of a woman and to extend the shape of the feminine body in detail. She mixes craftsmanship- using old and forgotten techniques- with innovation and materials inspired on the world to come.

“For me fashion is an expression of art that is very close related to me and to my body.

I see it as my expression of identity combined with desire, moods and cultural setting.

In all my work I try to make clear that fashion is an artistic expression, showing and wearing art, and not just a functional and devoid of content or commercial tool. With my work I intend to show that fashion can certainly have an added value to the world, that it can be timeless and that its consumption can be less important then its beginning. Wearing clothing creates an exciting and imperative form of self-expression. 'Form follows function' is not a slogan with which I concur. On the contrary, I find that forms complement and change the body and thus the emotion. Movement, so essential to and in the body, is just as important in my work. By bringing form, structure and materials together in a new manner, I try to suggest and realize optimal tension and movement.”

Iris her designs require every time an unique treatment of material or even the creation of complete new materials. For this reason, Van Herpen prefers interdisciplinary research

and often collaborates with other artists or scientists."

EXHIBITIONS:

2015 Palais de Tokyo Museum, Le bord des Mondes exhibition

2015 Victoria & Albert Museum, What Is Luxury?

2015Musee de l'Histoire de l'Immigration, Fashion Mix : le parcours de l'exposition

2015 LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, Love and Loss: Fashion and Mortality exhibition

2014 FIT Museum NYC, Dance & Fashion

2014 Clash- Resistance in Fashion, Heart Herning Museum of Contemporary art, Herning Denmark

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 U.S.

2014 The Future of Fashion is Now, Boijmans Museum , Rotterdam

2014 MAD Museum NY, Out of Hand .Materializing the Postdigital

2014 Solo exhibition, overview of all collections, Boras, Sweden in collaboration with Groninger Museum.

2014 Mode, de musical, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

2013 Solo exhibition, overview of all collections, Calais. Museum Cite-Dentelle in collaboration with Groninger Museum.

2013 ArchiLab | Naturalizing Architecture at new FRAC Centre, France

2013 Exhibition SHOWcabinet / SHOWstudio.com, London

2013 MºBA Fetishism in Fashion. Mode Biënnale Arnhem

2013 HAND MADE. Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

2012 Iris van Herpen. Solo exhibition, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands

2012 MICRO Impact. Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2012 Excellent Craft. Palace House of Orange. Berlin, Germany

2012 Iris van Herpen. SIEN, exhibition and an exclusive selection of Iris van Herpen. Opening October 13, 2012. Antwerp, Belgium

2011 Self Structure. Lieu du Design, Paris, France

2011 London Design Festival. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

2011 The New Craftsmanship. Iris van Herpen and her inspiration. Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands

2011 Basic Instinct. Berlin, Germany

2011 Mode Biennale Arnhem. Arnhem, The Netherlands

2011 Material World. Art, design and fashion. Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands

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, Austria

2011 Fashion&Chocolate. Harbour City Exhibition, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

2010 BLACK. Masters of Black in Fashion & Costume. MOMU, Antwerp, Belgium

2010 Fashion & Architecture. ARCAM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2010 In your Face. Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands

2010 Dutch Design Awards exhibition. Eindhoven, the Netherlands

2010 Best of Dutch Design. Red Dot Museum, Essen, Germany

2010 Dutch Cultural Pop-up Space. London Fashion Week, London, UK

2010 10xxx. Gallery Helpuzelven, Winterswijk, the Netherlands

2010 Haute Couture Voici Paris. Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands

2009 Harrods launches. In-store exhibition and sales, London, UK

2009 Shape. Mode Biennale Arnhem, The Netherlands

2009 Dutch Design Awards. Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2009 Design Overtime. Eureka Night, Design Museum, London UK

2009 Shanghai Creative Industries Week, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

2009 Rollan Didier meets Iris van Herpen. Gallery FashionMania, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2008 Bridges to Fashion. Historical Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2008 Galeries Lafayette. Paris, France

2008 V!P Gallery. Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2008 Mememachine Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2007 SPRMRKT. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

AWARDS

2015 Marie-Claire Prix de la mode, best dutch conceptual designer

2014 ANDAM Awards Grand Prix

2013 Golden Eye Award

2013 Dutch Design Awards, category fashion

2013 Marie Claire prix de la mode , best Dutch Designer

TIME Magazine names Iris van Herpen's 3D printed dresses one of the

50 Best Inventions of 2011.

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