Lenny Kravitz is Looking for More Hunger Game Stylists. Are You Game?

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

If you, too, gobbled up the Hunger Games, and also consider yourself a very hungry stylist (what stylist isn’t starving?), you’ve got to get yourself into this competition. Much like battling to the death on live television, the official blog of The Hunger Games movie, Capitol Couture, is holding a competition on foot, and they’re asking volunteer tributes to design shoes via sketches/photos/paintings/3D renderings/any medium of your choice. Meanwhile, the blog is reporting on some seriously stunning designers, like Rodarte, Malgorzata Dudek, Iris Van Herpen, and other futuristic indies. 

SHOE ENVY: Iris van Herpen X United Nude

Edited by Amanda Gabriele

Sure, you’ve seen the Iris van Herpen X United Nude Crystallization Ankle Bootie before, but you have not yet laid eyes on the three new neutrals that will mesh seamlessly with your already fabulous closet. Grey, Taupe and Bisque are the latest hues to enter the collection and look damn good on the glamorous, curvaceous shape of this architecturally stunning shoe.

Iris Van Herpen: Haute Couture Requires Blueprints

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

As we enter this month of Art and Architecture at FashionIndie, we must discuss further a young designer who has elevated the notion of couture. Iris van Herpen creates a synergy between the finest handiwork and the technologically advanced. For this collection shown in Paris as part of Haute Couture fashion week, Capriole, she worked with architect Isaie Bloch and MGX to create 3D prints which were then translated into textiles. What resulted is function that follows the most stunning form from which all else stems.

She also happened to intern with Alexander McQueen. Behold.

There are Haute Couture Fashion Collections and then…There is Azzedine Alaïa

Edited by Benjamin Kanarek

From Benjamin Kanarek Blog

My expectations for the last Haute Couture Fashion Week shown in Paris at the beginning of July, was not of the kind that I thought would leave a lasting impression. 

Kim Kardashian Loves United Nude and So Do I

Edited by Amanda Gabriele

This bootie is sick, and I’m not talking about your ass Kim Kardashian (even though your ass is sick as hell). She was seen wearing these Iris van Herpen for United Nude booties in New York.

23 Looks from Iris van Herpen That Will Make You Fall In Love with Fashion

Edited by Saynt

Currently fiending to style a shoot with nothing but Iris van Herpen’s Fall/Winter 2010 collection. By far one of the industries most promising fresh designers, Iris is the perfect mix of Hussein futurism and McQueen spectacle. If you don’t know, know.

LOOKBOOK: Iris Van Herpen F/W 2010 Collection

Edited by Rebecca Alexander

Iris Van Herpen’s A/W10 collection, titled ‘Synthesthesia,’ is more beautiful then words can describe.

Fashion Quotable: Iris Van Herpen

Edited by Rebecca Alexander

Van Herpen explains her aesthetic ambition regarding her latest collection, named Refinery Smoke:

“The smoke looks like it is alive…Will there be a time when clothing is unnecessary and we’re able to ‘wear’ something as intangible as smoke? I believe in an unlimited, barrier-breaking future when it comes to fashion and therefore strive to find the borders of the seemingly impossible.”

Runway Rundown: AIFW

Edited by Rebecca Alexander

Three of the best collections shown during Amsterdam International Fashion Week, from Claes Iversen, Iris van Herpen, and Jan Taminiau.

Thanks Fabulousness for the pics.

Designer: Iris Van Herpen

Edited by Saynt

Of all those shown at this years Amsterdam fashion week, one collection no one will soon forget was that of , with it’s textured and sculpted pieces and dramatic hair and makeup. Made from materials like leather, iron, brass, chains and ‘hair’, the clothing, though not exactly wearable (where do you wear a black leather minidress with large gold brass wings?), was stunning and unlike anything else.

More art then fashion, models walked down the runway in black, navy, white, gold and steel creating a serious, underground club feel. My favorite look was a butterfly dress with silver chains and patchwork leggings, that although not very functional, provided in beauty what it lacked in coverage.