Magnetic Motion
Iris van Herpen, Magnetic Motion Couture Collection, 2015.
Magnetic Motion
Iris van Herpen
b. 1985, Wamel, The Netherlands
Lives and works in Amsterdam
Iris van Herpen is a Dutch fashion designer who is internationally recognized for her pioneering use of 3D printing as a construction technique as well as an aesthetic principle. Since her first show in 2007, she has been preoccupied with inventing new forms and methods of sartorial expression by combining the most traditional and the most radical materials and garment manufacture methods into her unique vision. Her work has been featured in various museum exhibitions, including a major retrospective that toured in the United States and Canada from 2015 to 2018. Van Herpen’s creations have been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York, and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, among others.