Tag: Iris van Herpen
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Bjork’s unique stage costumes up for auction
Over the years Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk has collaborated and commissioned many young, innovative, fashion designers who later went on to become famous. Bjork’s unique stage outfits are going under the hammer in London at Kerry Taylor Auction‘s ‘Passion for Fashion’. Bjork is currently working on a ground-breaking virtual-reality project and she aims to use the…
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Met Gala 2016: couture and technology meet in cutting-edge fashion
Gala celebrates the opening of the Manus x Machina exhibition and provides an answer for a debate that has simmered for decades – is fashion art?
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Instant collector’s piece: Björk x Chris Cunningham for laser-like Dom Pérignon 2006 Vintage
In the party mood? A new Dom Pérignon collaboration with the artistic world makes this already-covetable Champagne an instant collector’s piece. Icelandic singer Björk and her longtime collaborator British video artist Chris Cunningham sign 2006 Vintage by DOM PÉRIGNON Champagne house. Titled ‘From Earth to Heart’, their design on the limited edition 2006 Blanc coffret…
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Victoria and Albert Museum’s ‘What is Luxury?’ explores the meaning and the history of luxury
What is Luxury? (25 April – 27 September 2015, a V&A and Crafts Council Exhibition) will interrogate ideas of luxury today. Victoria and Albert Museum asks ‘What is Luxury?‘ and how it relates to our everyday lives in a new exhibition challenging our definitions of what luxury means. “As its title suggests, the exhibition questions…
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Five things we learned about fashion, technology and sustainability
In a recent live chat, experts took questions on the marriage of technology and fashion and the implications for sustainability
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From Parisian catwalks to your home, 3D printing is democratising fashion
The technology could reduce the fashion industry’s wasteful footprint, but materials must be improved if it’s to go mainstream