07/07/2017
3D-Printing live fasion show installation work we did for Iris van Herpen almost 2 years back !
Currently we are busy with the last preparations for the 10 year anniversary celebration of Iris van Herpen Couture, this Monday at Paris Fashion Week. Today the last collaboration highlight from our first decade, in which Gwendoline Christie was wearing a ‘Quaquaversal' dress that was being finished upon her by three enormous robot arms, live during the Iris van Herpen SS16 show.
Gwendoline: "When I wear one of Iris's garments I feel like I'm being wrapped in another creature, as though I'm merging with some sort of explosive magnification of DNA and that is truly unique. When we worked together on her S/S16 collection I felt privilege to be part of her vision: as an installation, displayed on a plinth during the show about to be slaughtered, about to consume all, it was a moment where I stayed focused on her selected inspiration, 'A Land' by Jaquetta Hawkes and its powerful description of lying on the land, delving into the earth and exploring deeply down to the core of the planet before being flung out again to the stratosphere and back into the body. That is how I see Iris's vision: she sees all with her microscopic eye and projects it large before us with the precision of a surgeon and the poetry of a sage."
Iris: "Gwendoline radiates a deep, incredibly warm, feminine strength that goes hand in hand with a powerful sense of freedom. Our first collaboration was the show ‘Quaquaversal’, which means 'moving in all directions instantaneously'. Collaborating with Gwendoline feels quaquaversal, her poetry and warmth within our collaborations is something I draw much inspiration from, she illuminates my work. She continually transcends her own boundaries with incredibly poetic, sensitive and strong performances for which she has become a muse."
Installation by Pedja Gavrilovic & Pavlos Feraios from REXLab - Robotic Experimental Architecture | Universität Innsbruck
Collaborating artist: Jólan van der Wiel
