There’s a felt beauty that resonates from a fashion designer who knows herself. Able to explain the subtlety of movement to show a truer depiction of her craft, she sees fluidity in everything. She feels life in everything. She carries less of a desire to boast about the physical quality of her work and more of a need to speak of the unseen realms between it. This is the soft, magnetizing energy of Iris Van Herpen.
Van Herpen’s ability to alchemize the ethereal is perhaps most evident in her love for fine art and classical ballet. The Dutch fashion designer dipped her toe into the world of art and movement at an early age, garnering a deep understanding of energetic principles and fine-tuning an immense curiosity with herself and those around her. This transformative era in her life could be interpreted as Van Herpen’s catalyst, where she began to quietly finesse her creative eye and see th...
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