IRIS VAN HERPEN.

Iris Van Herpen, she got mad skills! #Irisvanherpen
 #fashion #HauteCouture. via masassassin

I have always argued that young aspiring mas designers and many of the established ones too should stop looking at each other and recreating each others work, and look outside of Trinidad's Carnival for inspiration, and new expression.

Iris Van Herpen.

Look at science and technology, architecture, industrial design, Hollywood, Bollywood,  modern art, archeology the world is an ocean of inspiration of which any designer can gain new ideas and contribute to a creative rise in carnival art and even the so called industry.
Recently I have been looking at the works of  fashion designer Iris Van Herpen.
Van Herpen
graduated from the Art Institute of  Arnhem  ArtEZ in 2006 and worked for Alexander McQueen in London. In 2007 she presented her very own collection and is known for using modern technology such as 3D printers and the latest fabrics in her creative processes.

The following is an interview she did for DROME magazine  where
she talks about her creative process and influences and below that here 2013 collection 'Voltage'.

  

IN THE VAN #04 | Special Guest: IRIS VAN HERPEN | a project by DROME magazine from PHLEGMATICS on Vimeo.
IN THE VAN #04 | Special Guest: IRIS VAN HERPEN

a project by DROME magazine

text by Giulia Fasanella
photos and video by Jacopo Pergameno
music by Databhi
special thanks: MAXXI, IED
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In The Van is the new project by DROME magazine, born from the necessity to let discover the most fresh and promising creative personalities in fashion, knocking on the doors of their studios.
It starts from Rome, the city that gave birth to the magazine.

dromemagazine.com/in-the-van

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• Hopefully Eugene Rabkin will have some photos in the meantime here is a rough style video of Iris Van Herpen's couture collection
• "3D printing will infiltrate fashion through streetwear, not haute couture"
• Egypt

What Madonna Wore.

It looks like the fashion world brought an all star team to put Madonna's half time show costumes together.

Take a look at the line up below, some of fashions very elite contributed to the look of pop's Queen Mother. 

" Courtesy of stylist and costume designer B. Akerlund, who worked with Madonna on videos including “Celebration,” “Jump,” and “4 Minutes,” they incorporated an Egyptian goddess’ store of gold headdresses and jewels and a dash of Versace-inspired Greece. Her three looks all came courtesy of Riccardo Tisci for Givenchy Haute Couture: to begin, a gold cape hand-embroidered with gold metal, studs, crystals, and lined in leopard-print chiffon; in the middle sections, a black minidress in silk cady with leopard-print cape in silk charmeuse (also hand-embroidered) and hand-studded python belt with removable flaps (above); and to close, the long black coat in silk cady with hand-embroidered sequins and micro pearls. (Sketches of all three looks are below.) Philip Treacy created her gold metal hat for Givenchy, and the label also created her nappa leather gloves. In a statement, the designer said, “People say everything has a limit, but limits do not exist with Madonna.” (Twitter seems to concur: The site reports that her performance garnered an average 8,000 tweets per second for five straight minutes.) Madonna accessorized with 19.6 carats of white gold and diamond earrings by Bulgari and over-the-knee boots by Miu Miu. Her hair was styled by Andy Lecompte and makeup by Gina Brooke.  "

Source : http://www.style.com/

Philip Treacy headpiece

Related articles

• Madonna's Half-Time in Givenchy was THE Superbowl of Costume (focusonstyle.com)
• Madonna's Over-the-Top Super Bowl Looks: All the Details (stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com)
• Madonna's Fabulous Super Bowl Outfits Designed by Givenchy Haute Couture (shoppingblog.com)

An Alexander Mc Queen Quote.

Yuh Understand?

“I try to push the silhouette. To change the silhouette is to change the thinking of how we look. 

What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. 

The rituals of how they dress. . . . There’s a lot of tribalism in the collections.”

—Alexander McQueen

ALEXANDER McQUEEN: HORN OF PLENTY.2009 ready to wear.

Alexander McQueen presented a theatrical spectacle called “Horn of Plenty”, the show was a recycled remix of his work and that of others in the 20^th century.   

                                                                     

Now I Love the dramatic works of designers such as McQueen, and John Galliano these guys put stuff out there that is so out of the box it seems to me to be MAS.

Imagine if the designers of Tribe, Island People, Spice, or Legacy, dared one year to step out of the boundaries of their comfort zone, put their talents to the test and went where they or their masqueraders never went before...or if the likes of McQueen did a band in Trinidad...

THAT would be a spectacle...

You see these guys are thinkers, constantly challenging their art form, constantly stretching their imaginations and our conceptions of what fashion is, this is what our mas designers should be doing, instead of swapping colours bikini’s and plumes year in year out, while others argue this stagnant or slow moving river of the mundane  can actually keep the culture alive.

Here is another boundary breaker that got my attention.