Herpen Tag

Within the wake of Iris van Herpen’s AW23 couture show, the visionary designer speaks to her transformative relationship with beauty and the way she approached the hair and make-up for this collection Iris van Herpen thrives off concepts that involve 3D printing, architecture and recent ideas of beauty. She’s put models in twisted silver face jewellery, and space-age eyeliner, and topped their heads off with futuristic crowns. In other words, she’s not your typical dressmaker – and he or she definitely doesn’t approach beauty in a traditional way. As an alternative, she reinterprets the concept of what beauty is, together with re-examining the feminine form. It’s just a few days before her AW23 couture...