Fashion designer Iris van Herpen has created a metamorphic dress covered in thousands of iridescent glass spheres that appear to gradually disintegrate for Olympian Eileen Gu, who debuted the garment at last night's Met Gala in New York City. More about Iris van Herpen crafts "dissolving" Met Gala dress from 15,000 glass bubbles
Dezeen has announced the Designers of the Year shortlists for this year's Dezeen Awards, which includes nominations for Kéré Architecture, Iris van Herpen and India Mahdavi. More about Dezeen Awards 2025 Designers of the Year shortlists revealed
Making clothes using living organisms is fundamentally changing how Iris van Herpen thinks about materials, the Dutch fashion designer tells Dezeen in this interview. More about Biodesign adds "a whole new range of possibilities" to fashion says Iris van Herpen
Fashion designer Iris van Herpen has worked with biodesigner Chris Bellamy to create a "first-of-its-kind living look", a dress made from 125 million bioluminescent algae that emit light as it moves. More about Iris van Herpen dress covered in glowing algae is "cultivated rather than constructed"
British automotive company Rolls-Royce has unveiled Phantom Syntopia, a shimmering car with a starry-light interior made in collaboration with designer Iris van Herpen. More about Iris van Herpen gives Rolls-Royce Phantom an "ethereal" redesign
Haute couture fashion design is rooted in craftsmanship and movement, Dutch designer Iris van Herpen tells Dezeen in this exclusive interview. More about "Fashion is a form of art and it's so closely related to dance" says Iris van Herpen
The cyclical processes of planet Earth informed fashion designer Iris van Herpen's latest collection, which includes dresses made from Parley for the Ocean's recycled-plastic fabrics. More about Iris van Herpen's Earthrise collection is designed as a "living organism"
Fashion designer Iris van Herpen has unveiled a haute couture dress constructed from ocean plastic fabric produced by Parley for the Oceans, which was cut into trilateral pieces to form a tessellated, translucent garment. More about Iris Van Herpen creates haute couture dress from ocean plastic
Leather designer Cecilio Castrillo hand-modelled the pink face mask that American singer Lady Gaga wore with a laser-cut Iris van Herpen dress at the MTV Video Music Awards this year. More about Lady Gaga teams pink face mask with "otherworldly" Iris van Herpen dress at VMAs 2020
In the last of our three exclusive video interviews for Virtual Design Festival, Iris van Herpen describes how she created the optical illusions in her Hypnosis collection, which includes a dress the Dutch fashion designer describes as her most complicated yet. More about "The Infinity dress is the most difficult I have ever made" says Iris van Herpen
In the second of our three exclusive video interviews with Iris van Herpen for Virtual Design Festival, the Dutch fashion designer explains how working with architects has informed her approach to textile design and led to her working on a full-scale museum extension last year. More about Architectural knowledge is "very useful for material development" in fashion says Iris van Herpen
In the first of three exclusive video interviews with Dezeen for Virtual Design Festival, fashion designer Iris van Herpen explains how her training as a ballet dancer led her to pioneer the use of new technologies and materials in haute couture. More about "There is so much in fashion that is unexplored" says Iris van Herpen in Dezeen's exclusive video series
Neutelings Riedijk Architects and Iris van Herpen have wrapped the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in over 1000 metres of delicate concrete friezes that merge fossil forms with the fabric of the designer's collections. More about Iris van Herpen brings couture fashion to the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden
Fashion designer Iris van Herpen took inspiration from artist Anthony Howe's kinetic sculptures when creating this series of delicate and hypnotic garments for Paris Haute Couture week. More about Iris van Herpen emulates a state of hypnosis for latest couture collection
Iris van Herpen looked to advances in DNA engineering and female forms in mythology when imagining this sculptural couture collection. More about Iris van Herpen explores human-animal hybrids in Shift Souls couture collection
Fashion designer Iris van Herpen has created a series of dresses that replicate the feathers and soundwave patterns of birds in flight, and showcased them alongside a kinetic lighting installation by Studio Drift. More about Iris van Herpen translates motion of bird flight into pleated garments
The different qualities of water and air informed Iris van Herpen's latest collection, which was presented at this week's Paris couture shows accompanied by a group of underwater musicians. More about Iris van Herpen explores the contrasts between water and air for Aeriform couture collection
For her latest couture collection, Dutch designer Iris van Herpen created hypnotic garments that distorted the models' bodies. More about Iris van Herpen uses visual trickery for latest couture collection
Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen has created a dress using thousands of hand-blown glass balls for her haute-couture collection, shown in Paris this week. More about Glass bubble dress features in Iris van Herpen's Autumn Winter 2016 couture collection
Optical light screens created mirrored rainbow effects at Dutch designer Iris van Herpen's Autumn Winter 2016 fashion show in Paris, which featured intricate garments that looked like soap bubbles (+ movie). More about Iris van Herpen creates "bubble-like exoskeleton" dresses for Autumn Winter 2016 collection