Today’s post brings you three innovative fashion designers to your attention. Each of them has unique vision of modern style, but what they have in common is they fuse fashion and technology to reflect rapidly evolving environment we live in.
Iris van Herpen is a Dutch fashion designer known for fusing technology with traditional haute couture craftsmanship.
Van Herpen opened her own label Iris van Herpen in 2007.
She shows her latest collection ‘Roots of Rebirth’ during Paris Haute Couture Week on January 25th 2021.
Through ‘Roots of Rebirth’, Van Herpen notions towards the miraculous lacery of interconnectedness from the natural ‘wood wide web,’ weaving a dialogue between the terrestrial and the underworld.
References: Wikipedia, irisvanherpen.com
Noa Raviv is a Tel Aviv-born, New York-based artist. She makes collages, sculptures and installations.
Her work has been exhibited in at The Israel Museum and Hansen House in Jerusalem, Holon Design Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
She has lectured in universities and art institutions including The Anchorage Museum in Alaska, Glasgow School of Art, RSID in Toronto, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Parsons School of Design and SVA in New York, Shenkar College of Engineering Design and Art in Ramat Gan (Israel) and MODA Design Museum in Atlanta.
Her work has been featured in magazines and publications such as Vogue, The Cut, BBC, Wired, Nylon, Dezeen, Fast Company, and Timeout and The Met Museum’s Manus X Machina catalog among others.
References: noaraviv.com
Issey Miyake is a Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances, such as L’eau d’Issey, which has become his most well-known product.
Born on April 22, 1938 in Hiroshima, Japan, designer Issey Miyake is known for creating an eclectic mix of Eastern culture and the textile technology of the West. This blend stems from his early exposure to the Western culture during the World War II American occupation in Japan, when he was just aged 10. He is noted to be one of the most innovative fashion designers and the first Asian to be renowned globally as such.
References: Wikipedia, fashonana.com
