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敬请期待中文版  The Iris van Herpen Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2018 collection was inspired by Victorian chronophotography, which captured successive frames of movement in a single frame InDigital.TV Iris van Herpen, as ever, had the word for her collection: “Syntopia”. It suggested her particular blend of technology and technique, but no longer in the La-La Land of the incomprehensible or unwearable.  Backstage at Iris van Herpen Haute Couture, Autumn/Winter 2018. While still pioneering extraordinary technical advances and experimental forms, this collection is noted for being more wearable than in previous seasons Sonny Vandevelde/InDigital.TV The slender coat that opened the collection was elegantly tailored in woven leather, merging into wool. To be more accurate, I turned to the information on the pack of cards left on the seats in the pitch dark of Le Trianon, the old Paris theatre. They had to be studied later. The official description read: “Nude leather woven through parametric file-making and laser-cutting into grey wool.” Iris knows how to capture the imagination. Overhead, an artwork suspended from the ceiling moved gently, like a bird flying in slow motion. While the models below walked the length of the “stage”, the colours changed subtly and artistically from a neutral grey, through turquoise, olive green, deep red… and finally an explosion of white wings. The showmanship of this brief collection was stellar.  Photographer Sonny Vandevelde captures a moment in Iris van Herpen's "Syntopia" collection in chronophotographic style Sonny Vandevelde/InDigital.TV Backstage, Natalia Vodianova, dressed in the designer’s work, proved that it was both wearable and appealing. I asked Iris about her her approach, the mental processes and method of manufacture that had produced this collection. “I worked with the artists on the installation [“In 20 Steps” by Studio Drift], and I was looking at chronophotography,” the designer explained. “It’s like taking different photos in one second. I started looking at how it felt and taking photos like that. I took milliseconds of movements so I changed the grain of the fabric. I also changed the way of something that would normally happen in longer time. So it’s really about slowing down time.”  Backstage at Iris van Herpen Haute Couture, Autumn/Winter 2018 Sonny Vandevelde/InDigital.TV  Backstage at Iris van Herpen Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2018 Sonny Vandevelde/InDigital.TV The descriptions of each outfit were complex yet comprehensible. And there was no sense of the torture experienced by her models in the past – I once saw them wrapped and hung up in plastic – to express the van Herpen vision. There has been that uncomfortable feeling occasionally in previous collections. Here, all was calm and often lovely, as in an “Aeolian” dress in organza coloured the blue of a summer sky, pleated into a half-wheel. Iris described it as being “like glass wings in thin air”. This sense of flight included an asymmetric dress with what was described as “chronophotographic” lines of bird-wing movements. That gave an airy lightness and graceful fragility to the whole collection.  Backstage at Iris van Herpen Haute Couture, Autumn/Winter 2018 Sonny Vandevelde/InDigital.TV It is easy to think that Iris does not change her approach much between collections. But I feel the opposite. There is deep thought and exceptional technique in her clothes. And this season’s presentation of the human body morphing into the wings of a dove was romantic, elegant, and one of those rare explorations of the future of fashion, which can be welcomed with open arms. Or rather, with open wings.  Iris van Herpen takes a bow at the close of her Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2018 show in Paris InDigital.TV (责任编辑：admin) |