{"id":615,"date":"2020-07-07T15:48:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T05:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=175094"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:11:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:11:46","slug":"iris-van-herpen-couture-game-of-thrones","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/iris-van-herpen-couture-game-of-thrones\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Game Of Thrones,’ Technology And A Single Dress: Welcome To Iris Van Herpen’s World Of Couture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iris van Herpen<\/a> always thinks outside the box. The Dutch couturier has long defined her brand of couture with technology, one of the few haute designers to fuse modern technology and decades-old craftsmanship successfully. She was, then, perhaps more equipped than most to deal with Couture Week’s digital revolution<\/a>, well-versed in the viral language. Her new proposition of couture is evidence of this – a single dress, the agency of technology, the medium of film and a digital platform to stream it all on.<\/p>\n

Her short film, \u2018Transmotion,\u2019 takes us on an experiential voyage into the inner workings of van Herpen’s process. It stars Dutch actress Carice van Houten – or Melisandre from ‘Game of Thrones<\/a>‘ – the second star van Herpen has used from HBO’s hit. In 2015, she cast fellow GOT actress Gwendoline Christie in her Spring\/Summer 2016 show, where Christie lay flat in the center of the runway on a stone platform as a dress was three-dimensionally printed on her in real-time. This year, van Herpen executed a similar practice, however with van Houten as her muse and without an audience (as per the pandemic’s restraints).<\/p>\n

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Filmmaker Ryan McDaniels traced the birth and anatomy of van Herpen’s creation, which was intended to reflect the nature of perception. \u201cThe dress has little black seeds that connect to stems that connect to branches that grow into very fragile translucent leaves, and it all sprouts from the center of the body,\u201d van Herpen told the New York Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIt is about birth and growth and formation. I wanted to express the experience of these last months without being literal, and symbolize the new beginning of things.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re excited to unveil our newest collaboration with the magnificent muse Carice van Houten, in our short film \u2018Transmotion\u2019, lensed by Ryan McDaniels. To view the full short film ~ link in bio The \u2018Transmotion\u2019 dress radiates in a diaphanous bloom of white silk organza, translucent layers pleated within the confines of an undulating form. Contrasted against the frailty of the sheer petals, black branches of duchess satin were laser-cut, hand-stitched and form the central roots of the garment. This geometric lattice recalls humankind\u2019s inclination to tame nature. Beneath the surface, the branching also reveals the synonymity of mycorrhizal networks (the Wood Wide Web) and the symbiotic nature within human communities. Like fronds frozen in time, crystalline filaments sprout from the heart of the dress. Portraying delicate new life, black seed-like crystals punctuate the tip of each stamen like strand. The concept of the creation stems from the notion of growth and regeneration. The seemingly simple seed is the embodiment of life and the potential that comes with it. A seed embedded upside down in dirt still sees the seedling growing the right way up. The dress follows symmetry in both its axis and without context, indiscernible which way is up or down. Motion and fluidity involved in the formation of tessellations highlight the capacity to shift between negatives and positives. Featuring: Carice van Houten @LeaveCariceAlone Director: Ryan McDaniels @Mr.McDaniels Sound design: @Sssalvadorrr Breed Including tracks: \u2018F Major\u2019 by @HaniaRani I @GondwanaRecords Art direction: @EugeneYeap I Ryan McDaniels Casting: @TobiasHeinrichs1 Talent: @rebekkabeate Hair & make-up: @EmmyKlomp I @EEagency Hair & make-up assistant: @IrisZuidema Director of photography: @VictorHorstink Photography: @valentine.bouquet Special thanks to Fe\u0301de\u0301ration de la Haute Couture et de la Mode @fhcm Davy Hezemans & Joanna van der Werf I @SpicePR @Zuiderling.Agency I Roy Schellekens Nina van het Spijker & Robert Lee I @ConservatoriumHotel @JaneyvanIerland I @Nummer19Management #irisvanherpen #couture #parisfashionweek #hautecoutureonline #transmotion #caricevanhouten<\/a><\/p>\n

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