It’s a fusion of beauty, fashion, and nature—a gift that transcends the ordinary and opens the door to a world of artistry and elegance.
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Aveda x Iris Van Herpen: A Fusion of Ethereal Fashion and Luxury Beauty. Unveiling the Unique Collector Accessories of a Spectacular Collaboration.
This holiday season, prepare to embark on a journey of transformation and innovation as Aveda joins forces with the visionary Dutch fashion designer, Iris van Herpen. Together, they redefine the art of gifting by marrying the realms of haute couture and avant-garde style with the opulence of hair care and skincare. The Aveda x Iris Van Herpen capsule collection unveils limited-edition, high-fashion hair accessories, plant-powered hair care treasures, and sumptuous skincare elixirs, all presented in exquisite designer packaging envisioned by Iris van Herpen herself.
A Glimpse Behind the Curtain
The union of Aveda and Iris van Herpen is a testament to their shared reverence for the natural world. Inspired by the wonders of nature, this collaboration seamlessly weaves together biomimicry-inspired designs with high-performance hair, skin, and body care. The result? An opulent holiday collection that not only captures attention but also unlocks new possibilities in the world of fashion and beauty.
Iris van Herpen shares, “This collection embodies a forward-thinking vision for the holidays, encapsulating the boundless beauty of nature. Its visual inspiration is drawn from the intricate relationships between living organisms and their physical environments—a perpetual dialogue between nature and ourselves.”
While Iris van Herpen’s couture creations regularly grace red carpets, film screens, and global runways, she has also been the creative force behind the hair designs at Aveda’s prestigious hair shows, guided by none other than Aveda’s Senior Vice President of Global Professional Artistry, Antoinette Beenders. Years of collaboration and mutual admiration have culminated in a profound friendship that now shines in this formal holiday partnership, enriched with artistry and craftsmanship at its core.
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Bespoke Hair Accessories for the Discerning
The Aveda x Iris Van Herpen Holiday collection unveils three luxurious and limited-edition high-fashion accessories: a hair cuff, a hair pin set, and a cosmetic pouch. These elegant hair jewels and pouches are available online for a limited time, offering you a chance to gift a piece of haute couture magic that is truly one-of-a-kind.
As you dive into this extraordinary collaboration, you’ll find yourself enveloped in the ethereal world of Iris van Herpen’s avant-garde style and Aveda’s commitment to sustainable luxury.
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This season Iris Van Herpen’s designs draw attention to the visionary ideas of Oceanix, the world’s first floating city and the important new generation of architects that show us the ingenuity and desirability of waterborne architecture. The new collection embodies the fluidity and fragmentation of aquatic architecture, with dynamic patterns of light and shadow and … Read more
Phantom Syntopia’s Weaving Water Headliner is a three-dimensional collaborative masterpiece — and an ambitious reimagining of Rolls-Royce’s signature Starlight Headliner. A symbiosis of haute couture and Bespoke is found in every detail of this new Rolls-Royce model. Designed in collaboration with renowned fashion designer Iris van Herpen, Phantom Syntopia represents a meeting of minds — … Read more
Magnum ice cream, the first handheld ice cream targeted as a premium adult offering, partners with Cindy Bruna and Iris Van Herpen to Debut the World’s First Haute Couture Vegan Dress Made from Cocoa Beans.
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Unveiled during Paris Fashion Week at Elysée Montmartre, the Magnum Vegan Dress was revealed to the world as Cindy Bruna took to the runway in Iris Van Herpen’s 15th Anniversary show debuting the unique design to the world and paving the way as Magnum ice cream’s first steps into circular fashion.
The Magnum Vegan Dress is a celebration of Magnum ice cream’s vegan range; an expertly crafted and award-winning collection of delicious, plant-based indulgence and 100% Magnum ice cream decadence, without any dairy.
Magnum ice cream believes a day without indulgence is a day lost, and that everyone should be able to pursue what brings them joy, whatever this may be. This campaign brings together Magnum ice cream fans from across the world to indulge in the decadence of plant-based deliciousness and invites them to experience and celebrate Magnum Vegan through an all-new fusion of cocoa and haute couture.
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The Vegan Dress
The first of its kind for the brand, the Magnum Vegan Haute Couture Dress has been designed and created using an intricate 3-dimensional design, incorporating sustainable materials that reference Magnum ice cream’s vegan ingredients in an indulgent fusion between the brand’s iconic melting chocolate and Iris’ luxurious fluid designs. With the aid of 3-D printing technology, the Magnum Vegan Dress is also the first haute couture dress to be made from cocoa bean husks, which have been processed to create a fully organic biopolymer material.
The dress features intricate details including plantlike body embellishments which are copper-coated, draped and entwined with upcycled and pliseed organza, while other 3-D elements have been printed using innovative SLS technology (Selective Laser Sintering).
The creation of the Magnum Vegan Dress marks a dynamic collision between ice cream and haute couture, supporting both Magnum ice cream and the Maison of Iris van Herpen’s ambitions to work towards a fully sustainable production chain within the fashion industry and beyond.
“I am honored to have been approached by Magnum ice cream as a partner to bring to life the Magnum Vegan Dress. As a designer, I have always worked to push the boundaries of design and this collaboration has really allowed us to take this one step further by linking the ingredients of an iconic Magnum Vegan to create a haute couture design. The opportunity to work with the brand on such an innovation in sustainable fashion has been a very special experience,” – Iris said about the collaboration.
“What an honor to be able to reveal the Magnum Vegan Dress to the world – and to be able to do this at Iris’ 15th anniversary show just makes this even more special. Bringing together ice cream and haute couture in such an unexpected and impactful way is so exciting, making this a partnership that I am delighted to be a part of,” – said Cindy, who modeled the Magnum Vegan Dress.
The Magnum Vegan Dress is part of Iris van Herpen’s 15th anniversary collection entitled “Meta Morphism”. The collection explores society’s embrace and acceptance of a new world of digitalism with the arrival of the Metaverse and how this is becoming an increasingly prevalent part of everyday life. Inspired by Ovid’s canonical poem “Metamorphoses”, the designer breaks down the lines between reality and digital realms in a futuristic, avant-garde collection designed to inspire and evoke the question of who we are beyond a perceived reality.
Magnum ice cream’s Commitment to Sustainable Fashion
Magnum ice cream aims to strengthen its long-term commitment to fashion by announcing its intended partnership with the University of Leeds. The brand intends to commission a research project with the Leeds Institute of Textiles and Colour (LITAC) in the School of Design to further this commitment and look at how Magnum ice cream can bring to life accessible, sustainable fashion using by-products from its core ingredients. This is part of the brand’s long-term commitment of putting sustainability at the heart of the brand and working towards revolutionizing its waste product into a viable, circular solution inspired by its longstanding inspiration from fashion.
FAIRTRADE AMERICA LAUNCHED “IT’S ONLY FAIR” CAMPAIGN ASKING HOW LONG AMERICANS WOULD WORK FOR JUST $1 TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THE UNFAIR PRICE COCOA FARMERS EARN FOR THEIR BELOVED CROP.
Globally, cocoa and chocolate together are a $48.29 billion industry that is expected to grow, yet cocoa farmers are currently battling inflation, rising production costs, the climate crisis and COVID-19 related challenges while the price they earn for cocoa hasn’t risen to meet these changes. As they navigate these challenges, they are asking for the same fair business practices and respect any entrepreneur would desire – a fair deal – so they can have a sustainable future in farming.
Smallholder, family-run farms with less than five acres of land and average yield between 1,300-1,760 lbs per year of cocoa provide 90% of the world’s cocoa beans. The cocoa industry is an important source of revenue for about 50 million people, including 5 million farming households.
Fairtrade America, the world’s most recognized label for social justice and sustainability, has launched a national campaign to generate broader awareness of the unjust price that farmers receive to produce the goods that we rely on everyday, including cocoa.
The “It’s Only Fair,” campaign features three videos connecting shoppers in the U.S. to smallholder cocoa farmers in West Africa and the dire issues farmers are facing around the world by disrupting people’s routines with the simple question, “How long would you work for $1?” Because of the unfair and unjust realities of the global food market, many cocoa farmers work an entire day for between $0.78-$1.00. That’s significantly below the international poverty line. Through this new campaign, Fairtrade America hopes to turn this big global issue into a more relatable problem, inspiring viewers to pause, reflect, learn and share about the impact unfair trade has on farmers and workers around the world.
Because of unfair trading practices, many farmers and workers around the world can’t make a living wage, no matter how hard they work. Extreme poverty can also lead to other problems, like deforestation and child labor. Farmers are forced to answer unthinkable questions, like “Should I preserve this forest? Or should I clear it to feed my family?” These problems aren’t new. For decades, corporations and governments have seen and ignored them or failed to address the root of the issue – poverty. The promising news is that as more and more consumers demand change, companies and governments will need to take action. A recent study found that shoppers in the U.S. are willing to pay up to 30% more per bar for Fairtrade chocolate, so why aren’t we?
“Farmers aren’t getting a fair deal. This is not only unjust, it is also unsustainable,” shared Peg Willingham, Executive Director of Fairtrade America. “Fairtrade believes that everyone deserves a decent standard of living. It’s only fair to pay a price that supports an existence worthy of human dignity.”
The Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode in Calais is holding a new exhibition, “Haute Dentelle,” devoted to high-end lace and its use in haute couture today. Haute Dentelle is laid out in the 656 m² temporary exhibition gallery. The exhibition pathway is made up of 14 display cases presenting 65 clothing pieces from the heritage collections of 14 of some of the most prestigious fashion houses on the French and international scene, from CHANEL to VALENTINO and including Ralph & Russo and Viktor & Rolf.
After the success of the exhibitions Hubert de Givenchy, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Anne Valérie Hash and Iris van Herpen, the Museum of Lace and Fashion in Calais, dedicated to hand-made and mechanical lace, presents the “Haute Dentelle” (Designer Lace) exhibition.
First inspired by and then liberated from hand-made lace, mechanical laces have been marrying tradition with innovation for 200 years. Synonymous with delicacy, the apparent fragility of the lace is an illusion: its woven texture makes it unravelable. A textile of high technicity, the subject of never-ending design research among
lace-makers, lace has never been so multi-faceted. In infinite shades, textures, finishing techniques and embroideries, it may be transparent or opaque, with floral or abstract patterns, light or three-dimensional… to the point of becoming magnificently unrecognizable.
EXCEPTIONAL PIECES have been selected from thirteen fashion houses: Chanel (11 looks), Christian Dior (1 look), Viktor & Rolf (3 looks), Iris van Herpen (3 looks), Balenciaga (2 looks), Ralph & Russo (3 looks), Maison Margiela (3 looks), Schiaparelli (5 looks), Alberta Ferretti (7 looks), Valentino (6 looks), Louis Vuitton (6 looks),
Yiqing Yin (5 looks), Zuhair Murad (8 looks), and Jean Paul Gaultier (2 looks).
Because of the ultra-contemporary aspect of the lace pieces, all the fashion silhouettes are provided by the fashion houses. The Maison Lemarié has provided samples demonstrating research into textile manipulation. The lace makers have loaned samples of lace, with of without finishing, so as to provide a measure of the richness of this fabric, and also to separate it from the garment.
14 display cases are placed along the exhibition pathway; 14 French and International fashion houses (Paris, London, Beirut, Milan, Rome, Amsterdam); 65 silhouettes from the last five years: the oldest dates from summer 2012 and the most recent from summer 2018.; 65 samples of lace; 15 French lace manufacturers today perpetuate the know-how dedicated to the lace woven on Leavers looms. This lace is intended for haute couture, lingerie and high-end pret-a-porter.
CHANEL loaned 11 ensembles illustrating the exceptional craftsmanship of the luxury Maison and its Métiers d’art. One of them, an ensemble from the Spring‑Summer 2015 Haute Couture collection photographed by Karl Lagerfeld, was selected for the exhibition poster.
Lace was one of Gabrielle Chanel’s favorite materials for evening gowns. In a 1939 article, Chanel recommends the use of lace, which she saw as “one of the prettiest imitations that’s ever been made of nature’s whimsies. (…) I think tulle and lace have always lent charm, gracefulness and nobility to women’s elegance.” Thanks to Karl Lagerfeld, CHANEL is perpetuating French lace expertise and renewing it through its collections.
“Haute Dentelle” Exhibition; Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode, Museum of Lace and Fashion in Calais;
Calais, France;
to January 6, 2019.
Standing for a reciprocity between craftsmanship and innovation in technique and materials, famous Dutch fashion designer Iris Van Herpen explored the study of cymatics in a new stunning couture collection presented at the L’Oratoire du Louvre in Paris. The new couture collection was titled “Seijaku” from the Japanese word and concept for finding serenity amidst life’s chaos. The Japanese musician Kazuya Nagaya created a Zen bowl sound installation to help the audience to visualize sound waves as evolving geometric patterns, In cymatics, a subset of modal vibrational phenomena, the higher the frequency of the sound wave, the more complex the visible patterns.
Iris Van Herpen continues exploring her ethos of “modern couture” bycoating thousands of hand-blown glass bubbles in transparent silicone, creating a bioluminescent prism around the body.
Inspired by the work of the Japanese artist Kohei Nawa, van Herpen also used a similar technique to silicone-coat tens of thousands of Swarovski water drop crystals, creating a dress with the look of a wet skin covered in dew drops.
Other fabric techniques developed exclusively for the collection include stitching pearl-coated rubber fabric onto black tulle to create fossil and floral layering. A halter dress is laser cut and stretched over black wire to scroll around the body like waves of sound in a shell.
Ethereal dresses float on a 3D moiré technique in which hand-plisséed and line- printed organza is hand stitched on transparent tulle.
The lightest Japanese organza is woven from threads five times thinner than human hair and made with the traditional Shibori technique, creating unique Cymatic patterns.
