FASHION Magazine
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We Spoke With Iris van Herpen About Envisioning the Future of Femininity
Iris van Herpen’s fantastical designs live just beyond the border of imagination. The 34-year-old Dutch designer draws inspiration from subjects as esoteric and varied as biopiracy and synesthesia and gravitates toward technology on the vanguard of scientific innovation to inform her creations. And yet because her work is so forward-thinking, it is often misunderstood. We […]
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The Best Beauty From Fall 2018 Couture Week
It feels like couture week used to be so under the radar, with only the industry paying it much attention. But now it gets just as much play on our feeds as any other fashion week and beauty looks inevitably deliver a feast for our eyes. Herewith, our favourite looks that came down the runways […]
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Iris van Herpen on the Importance of Handicraft and the Future of Fashion
There’s not many 33-year-old fashion designers who warrant their own career retrospective exhibition in a museum, but then again, Iris van Herpen is not like most fashion designers. We caught up the Dutch designer, who is often hailed as one of the most innovative and esoteric designers of the 21st century, while she was in […]
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Architect Philip Beesley on his Friendship with Iris van Herpen
If you haven’t heard of Philip Beesley before, here’s a crash course. He’s a 61-year-old Canadian architect and professor at the University of Waterloo, whose body of work involves the creation of transgressive, sentient structures — which is just as weird as it sounds. He also happens to be one of Iris Van Herpen’s closest […]
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A New Iris van Herpen Retrospective is Coming to Toronto
Iris van Herpen, the Dutch designer who creates distinctive, otherworldly garments using unexpected materials, will have her own retrospective exhibition titled Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion, arriving at the Royal Ontario Museum this June. Van Herpen is widely considered to be one of the most boundless and pioneering couture designers working in contemporary fashion. Her […]
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Five Spring Couture Trends You Can Wear IRL
Haute Couture is meant to be totally unique; each piece must be special ordered and some take upwards of 6,000 hours to sew. But just because couture isn’t exactly every day wear, doesn’t mean we can’t glean some inspiration to pull into our own wardrobe. We sifted through the season to pull out five totally […]
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Will Fashion Automation Mark the End of Seamstresses and Retail?
If you were to close your eyes and imagine the clothing of the future, you’d likely picture severe, angular cuts in synthetic fabrics, like something out of Blade Runner. Set in 2019, Ridley Scott’s ’80s version of the future still seems very far away. In all likelihood, it was Spike Jonze who got it right […]
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12 magical detail shots from Couture Fall 2016 for your viewing pleasure
Despite a rapidly changing marketplace, couture is still the granddaddy of fashion. Need proof? Look no further than this roundup of beautiful detail shots from a week of shows that spanned the Grand Palais in Paris to the Trevi Fountain in Rome. That, or skim a line list of details that include descriptions like, “bioluminescent […]
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Top Spring 2016 Trends: 143 runway and street style photos of fashion month’s 10 biggest moments
We’ve still got a winter to power through before we can even start thinking about the warmer weather, but with what we saw at the recent Spring 2016 presentations, we promise it will be well worth the wait. So to help you figure out what went down this Fashion Month, we compiled 134 runway and […]
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Top Fall 2015 Trends: 168 runway and street style photos of fashion month’s 10 biggest moments
Another fashion week month has come to an end and its latest batch of fall/winter dressing may be the most inspirational yet. While we’re thanking Mother Nature for finally putting an end to the treacherously long winter so we can start wearing the best of Spring 2015, the recent Fall 2015 shows may have us […]
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