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...
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