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

Jessica Lapidos — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:40:37 +0000

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.

Go to Capitol Couture to enter your designs/stylings/futuristic foot fashion expressions and you could win a pair of shoes. Or be one of 12 runners up to be District stylists on the blog, and find designers like this:

And may the 74th Hunger Games begin.

SHOE ENVY: Iris van Herpen X United Nude

Amanda Gabriele — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:58:36 +0000

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.

Grab a pair in every color for $995 each at UnitedNude.com. To learn more about the Iris van Herpen X United Nude Crystallization collection, click here.

Iris Van Herpen: Haute Couture Requires Blueprints

Jessica Lapidos — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:12:03 +0000

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

Benjamin Kanarek — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:37:54 +0000

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. The Fashion Designers Showing in the Official Haute Couture schedule is shrinking from one season to the next. I would love to see a revamping of the Couture Fashion Weeks in Paris. Luckily, there were some rays of light coming through the heavy cast of clouds to brighten up my day and the confirmation of a heavy trend: the arrival of the coat-dress for the winter season.

The Good News…

Giambattista Valli presented his first Couture Collection in Paris. It is always good news to see a new comer in the Haute Couture official Schedule reinforcing the statement that Couture has a raison d’être (reason to exist). The collection is quite complete from day wear with the coat-dress, the must of the season, cocktail dresses and evening gowns. The Giambasttista Valli clients are with no doubt feminin and chic, bringing a bit of a 60′s retro feel with beige, coral, animal-printed mousselines, beige ostrich-feathers and red dresses with Valentino influences.

: Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2011/2012 © Yannis Vlamos – GoRunway.com

Iris van Herpen was invited to present a retrospective of her poetic experimental work from her “Crystallization Collection”. She worked around a concept of the transformation of liquid into crystals. The volumes and materials are more about art performances and sculptures than wearable outfits like a skeleton dress to a water spray mini-dress. Her work is very organically inspired and reminds me of Alexander McQueen or Hussein Chalayan’s most conceptual work. I see a great potential in this young fashion designer, but would like to see how she transcribes her research into commercially viable clothing.

: Iris Van Herpen Couture Fall-Winter 2011/2012 © VOGUE Paris

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Kim Kardashian Loves United Nude and So Do I

Amanda Gabriele — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:53:59 +0000

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.

Kim looks fabulous. I absolutely love this outfit. The limited edition shoes are available online at United Nude for the ultra-low price of $1,295.

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

Saynt — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:14:32 +0000

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.

CLICK TO VIEW 23 LOOKS FROM IRIS VAN HERPEN

Nearly everything in this collection is flawless, with intricate weaving, other worldly styling and the kind of understanding for visual sexuality you rarely see in designers so early in their career. For more on Iris van Herpen visit her website.

LOOKBOOK: Iris Van Herpen F/W 2010 Collection

Rebecca Alexander — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:23:30 +0000

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

Check out the entire collection on Cyanatrendland

Fashion Quotable: Iris Van Herpen

Rebecca Alexander — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:30:24 +0000

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

Rebecca Alexander — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:27:10 +0000

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

Saynt — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:34:19 +0000

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.