Iris van Herpen Haute Couture F/W 2019.20 Paris

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[jeanclaude]

It´s been several years since I got tired of her work. Every new season It is just about little variations on her signature 3-D printed dresses...

 

[Vitamine W]

^ I don't really agree. You should really check it in person. The materials, techniques and silhouettes are constantly evolving. It's also quite mesmerising in motion.

 

[Benn98]

I actually like her designs, but it's time to overhaul not only the silhouette but also the materials. The last three collections all blend into one another. Painfully monotonous.

 

[GERGIN]

I just got Iris van Herpes looking at this collection!

 

[jeanclaude]

^ I don't really agree. You should really check it in person. The materials, techniques and silhouettes are constantly evolving. It's also quite mesmerising in motion.

I agree with what you are saying about materials and techniques...but the problem is that at the end everything looks very similar to her previous collections.

 

[blackcherrified]

Her creations are beautiful but sometimes I wish she would challenge herself and venture out of her niche... it does get kind of stale after some time.

 

[tricotineacetat]

Once upon a time in the early 2000s, there was a very talented knitwear designer called Sandra Backlund, whose sculptural knitwear pushed the boundaries of what we thought was possible in that craft into unseen sculptural territory. She kept on doing amazing editorial-only clothes but never furthered upon clothes that took her vocabulary into wearable territory.

I feel a little bit similar about Iris Van Herpen's work, to be honest - I think she has proven herself more than enough that we know by now she will blow our minds again and again for visually arresting shows, but over the years we got so used to seeing this that we can no longer appreciate a collection full of showstopping looks like this one anymore. Worst of all, it comes up as *expected* from her to produce collections like this, that will only ever live in museums afterwards.

 

[Nomar]

Please push yourself more Iris!

I used to be so excited each season to see what interesting and beautiful creations she would present. Now it has just become very formulaic and ironically two-dimensional.

 

[Deleted member 119799]

i just don't think she's a very good fashion designer, i think she has got some great concepts and techniques but the fashion element is missing.
she should do collaborations with actual fashion designers to help her push these concepts forward and out of this stasis

 

[tricotineacetat]

i just don't think she's a very good fashion designer, i think she has got some great concepts and techniques but the fashion element is missing.
she should do collaborations with actual fashion designers to help her push these concepts forward and out of this stasis

I would disagree with that. First of all, I think her hand with silhouettes, cut and proportion is assured and aesthetically pleasing, as is her attention to detail work, such as embroidery and other hand crafts. I would actually believe she could do great wearable clothes too but she just doesn't seem very interested in that, at all - That is where my frustration with her comes from.

 

[donyan]

This is one of the better ones of her shows , the sculptures are really quite beautiful. But I grew that it’s a little formulaic . I wonder how she manages to stay in business .. in fact , is there one ?

 

[GivenchyHomme]

She found her niche and is milking it. Unfortunately, it's getting boring. The same thing happened to Mary Katrantzou. You can only do one thing for so long.

 

[IloveDiorHomme]

the same.

again.
and again.
and again.
and again.
and again.

for 10 years.


bye.

 

[amak]

Again!!!!!! The technique is genius for sure. But its a flatlined / on-paper kind of a genius. Innovation in craft alone would always remain one dimensional. Same issue with Guo Pei, incredible workmanship, but where is the design?

This lacks soul, there is nothing here that would move you the way McQueen's work used to. Who is the van Herpen woman ( customer )? There is no clarity about that at all. Its just impressive objet d'art pieces without an identity.