Fossils, Skeletons to Swab Shoulders Iris van Herpen Models in Paris – WWD

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: Type will meet fossils, skeletons and otherworldly works of art come Nov. 29 when the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris opens an exhibition dedicated to Dutch couturier Iris van Herpen.

Titled “Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses,” the retrospective will component about 100 high fashion creations along pieces generally present in herbal historical past museums, or recent artwork galleries. It’s scheduled to run via April 28.

Works via artists together with Rogan Brownart, Wim Delvoye, Tim Walker, Matthew Harrison, Damien Jalet, Kohei Nawa and Casey Curran are to travel on show, along side design items via Neri Oxman, Ren Ri, Ferruccio Laviani and Tomáš Libertíny.

The exhibition is to unfurl round 9 subject matters to specific “the essence of her work, merging fashion, contemporary art, design and science,” consistent with the museum, which this date clear new main points and imagery concerning the then display. Topics together with aqua and the origins of era, skeletons, nature, the frame and mythology.

Billed as an immersive proceed attractive the entire senses, the show is soundtracked via an fresh composition via artist Salvador Breed, and concludes with rooms devoted to her atelier, movies of her runway presentations and projections of her clothes alike to aurora borealis dancing around the sky.

Identified for creations that significance applied sciences from laser slicing and 3-D printing to electromagnetic weaving, van Herpen has been the topic of solo presentations at eminent establishments together with the Groninger Museum within the Netherlands in 2012, the Textile Museum of Sweden in 2014, the Top Museum of Artwork in Atlanta in 2015 and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto in 2018.