Balenciaga opens tinted-glass couture store beneath historic Paris atelier
Fashion house Balenciaga has opened a couture store with smoked-glass-panelled walls in the same building as its original couture salon in Paris. More
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Balenciaga transforms former aviation fuel tanks into couture salon in Shanghai
Fashion brand Balenciaga has blanketed the interior of the Tank Shanghai museum in cream-coloured curtains for its first couture salon and showroom in China. More
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The Fabricant and Toni Maticevski design unisex "digi-couture" garment informed by sea urchins
Digital fashion house The Fabricant and designer Toni Maticevski have created the Animator Overcoat, a piece of unisex virtual haute couture that is decorated with claw-like spikes. More
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Viktor & Rolf channels coronavirus-related mentalities for latest fashion collection
Viktor & Rolf presents a high-fashion take on coronavirus with its Autumn/Winter 2020 collection, featuring silky nightgowns emblazoned with emojis and "unapproachable" coats covered in spikes and tubes. More
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"The Infinity dress is the most difficult I have ever made" says Iris van Herpen
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
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Architectural knowledge is "very useful for material development" in fashion 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
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"There is so much in fashion that is unexplored" says Iris van Herpen in Dezeen's exclusive video series
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
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Jasmine Linington uses seaweed to make couture clothing
Textile design graduate Jasmine Linington establishes seaweed as a high-end fashion material with her collection of nature-derived couture garments. More
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Iris van Herpen emulates a state of hypnosis for latest couture collection
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
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Thierry Mugler exhibition in Montreal includes garments for "dangerous seductresses"
The first major exhibition of fashion by French designer Thierry Mugler, presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, examines his visions for "metamorphoses, superheroines and cyborgs". More
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V&A exhibition explores the "all-pervasive" legacy of Christian Dior
An exhibition exploring the work and enduring legacy of fashion designer Christian Dior opens on Saturday at London's V&A museum. More
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Viktor & Rolf pairs delicate dresses with bold slogans in Spring Summer 2019 couture
Dutch fashion house Viktor & Rolf aimed to show the "expressive power of clothing" in its latest haute couture show, which featured romantic-style dresses with kitsch slogans. More
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Iris van Herpen explores human-animal hybrids in Shift Souls couture collection
Iris van Herpen looked to advances in DNA engineering and female forms in mythology when imagining this sculptural couture collection. More
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Maison Margiela's Artisanal couture collection is designed for "neo-digital natives"
John Galliano's Artisanal AW 2018 women's collection for Maison Margiela features layers of sorbet-coloured garments worn back to front and iPhones clamped to model's calves. More
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Iris van Herpen translates motion of bird flight into pleated garments
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
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Iris van Herpen explores the contrasts between water and air for Aeriform couture collection
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
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Iris van Herpen uses visual trickery for latest couture collection
For her latest couture collection, Dutch designer Iris van Herpen created hypnotic garments that distorted the models' bodies. More
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Viktor & Rolf's Vagabonds wear haute-couture garments made from scraps of recycled fabrics
Dutch fashion house Viktor & Rolf has used fabrics leftover from past seasons to create the haute-couture garments in its Autumn Winter 2016 collection. More
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Glass bubble dress features in Iris van Herpen's Autumn Winter 2016 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
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Viktor & Rolf mixes Picasso and polo shirts for Spring Summer 2016 haute couture
Dutch fashion house Viktor & Rolf has continued its "wearable art" theme with an haute-couture collection of sculptural white garments made from Cubist facial features. More
