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While some designers might take the occasion of their Fifteenth-anniversary collection for a nostalgic look back over time, taking stock of what’s happened and revisiting old favourites, Iris Van Herpen took the other approach. With a watch firmly on the longer term, the Dutch designer looked forward for Meta Morphism, her latest boundary-pushing couture collection. As recent realms of the metaverse and hyperreality evolve around us, the FW22 Couture show explored how the body will change in these posthuman realities, asking who we're beyond our physicality. Taking Ovid’s epic eighth-century poem Metamorphoses as her framing lens – specifically the three myths of Arachne, Narcissus, and Daphne and Apollo – van Herpen reimagined the act of metamorphosis within the age of digital...