With fans including Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Gigi Hadid, Van Herpen’s fashion designs are as innovative as they are beautiful
With fans including Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Gigi Hadid, Van Herpen’s fashion designs are as innovative as they are beautiful
Everything she makes is done by hand and a description of even one of her elaborate creations gives some idea of its concept and composition. Take her High Voltage dress, for example. It was constructed from thousands of transparent laser cut acrylic glass chevrons connected by hand through flexible silicone tubes into a three dimension electrically discharged silhouette.
Early collections displayed the spirit and innovation that continues to characterise and inform her work. Her first collection, Chemical Crows collection of 2008, was made from 700 children’s umbrellas which she transformed into body sculpture; the looks made from the bones of the umbrellas. After her initial discovery of 3D printers, she became the first to showcase a 3D-printed dress in her Crystallization collection in 2017.
Other aspects of her life are equally fascinating. When she was 17, she made her first parachute jump in Australia and a collection called My Capriole embodied the various emotions she felt falling from the sky. The Snake Dress embodying the myth of Medusa was composed of thousands of black translucent viewgraphs cut into stripes and individually stitched on to a stretch mesh base in 3D serpent shapes.
An old coffee house warehouse in Amsterdam overlooking the canal is her atelier where she continues to work and experiment with her team. A member of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris since 2012, she shows in the French capital twice a year. The issue of sustainability in fashion has led her to explore the possibilities offered by biodegradable technology which she has used to create several outfits.
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