Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen made an impression at her label’s fifteenth anniversary present on July 4, by sending a spectacular vegan haute couture dress down the runway.
In collaboration with the Magnum ice cream model, the style designer drew on a expertise that she masters to perfection, 3D printing, to craft a dress from leftover cocoa bean husks – a primary!
Van Herpen is considered one of style’s most avant-garde designers, creating sculptural and futuristic clothes from progressive supplies and methods, whereas additionally utilizing new applied sciences.
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The clothier has, actually, been a trailblazer in experimenting with the infinite prospects of 3D printing.
For the style present celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of her label, she went even additional by presenting the primary vegan haute couture dress. A creation that didn’t go unnoticed.
Inspired by the Magnum Vegan ice cream vary, the dress was made from waste cocoa bean husks, processed to create an natural biopolymer materials.
Crafted with the help of 3D printing, and extra particularly the selective laser sintering course of, this creation is embellished with a bunch of particulars resembling copper-coated plant-like gildings, and draped upcycled organza, amongst different equally elaborate trimmings.
“I’m honored to have been approached by Magnum as a companion to carry to life the Magnum Vegan Dress,” Van Herpen mentioned in a press release.
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“As a designer, I’ve all the time labored to push the boundaries of design, and this collaboration has actually allowed us to take this one step additional by linking the components of an iconic Magnum Vegan to create a haute couture design. The alternative to work with the model on such an innovation in sustainable style has been a really particular expertise.”
The French supermodel Cindy Bruna was chosen to current this world premiere on a runway put in on the French capital’s Elysee Montmartre venue.
Entitled “Meta Morphism”, Van Herpen’s Autumn/Winter 2022 haute couture assortment is composed of 16 futuristic-looking outfits referencing the assorted identities that we’d (or may not) quickly be capable of get pleasure from because of rising digital worlds. – AFP Relaxnews
