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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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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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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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