Iris Van Herpen
Iris Van Herpen was born in Wamel, Gelderland, The Netherlands on June 5th, 1984 and is the Fashion Designer. At the age of 39, Iris Van Herpen biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Iris van Herpen (born 5 June 1984) is a Dutch fashion designer.
van Herpen started her fashion label in 2007.
She is a guest member of the Parisian Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, part of the Fédération française de la couture.
Van Herpen has shown her collections at the Paris Fashion Week since January 2011.
Van Herpen's work has been included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
Much of her work has been characterized as belonging to the subfield of fantasy couture.
Career
Iris van Herpen graduated from the Artez University of the Arts in Arnhem in 2006 and worked at Alexander McQueen in London and Claudy Jongstra in Amsterdam before launching her own brand in 2007. At the 2007 Amsterdam Fashion Week, the Dutch designer unveiled her first Couture collection, 'Chemical Crows.'
Van Herpen was one of the first designers to pioneer 3D-printing as a clothing construction method.
Lady Gaga has wore Iris van Herpen's designs on several occasions since 2009. Lady Gaga wore a custom shiny black Couture dress for the unveiling of her perfume Fame in 2012. The bottle's shape inspired the dress, which Van Herpen made from laser-cut strips of black acrylic. Silicones, iron filings, and resin have also been used by Van Herpen.
Awards and recognition
- TIME Magazine names Iris van Herpen's 3D printed dresses one of the 50 Best Inventions of 2011.
- ANDAM Grand Prix Award (2014)
- STARTS Prize, granted by the European Commission (2016)
- Johannes Vermeer Award, Dutch state prize for the arts (2017)