Here’s one of the last images I haven’t uploaded from the shoot in December. It’s one of favourites because it shows the detail of the garment really well, putting on show all that hard work.

In other news, it’s taken a while but here’s the link to an article RMIT published on their website- it’s always great to have your achievements recognised. This is another post I found on my travels at wonderMODE.

And finally, I’m slowly starting to get ready for the US of A. Seeing all the coverage from NY Fashion Week is making me wish I was there already- I’ll have to wait another month until I can get my New York fix! More details to come.

Hope you like.

All Images: Dazed Digital- Morgan O’Donovan

Iris Van Herpen showed her first couture collection in Paris last week and I haven’t been able to stop googling images from the show. I first came across her work last year whilst studying. Graduating from the repected Arnhem Academy in July 2006, her profile has been on the rise since, releasing amazing collections and collaborating with designers outside of fashion. Every interview I have read on her lets me in on her process a little more. I posted a collaboration she completed with Benthem Crouwel, two renowned Dutch architects, last year. Listening to other designers talk about their work, I can’t always relate to their philosophies, however Iris’s work is quite unique in that she is totally driven by her curiosity in the mundane. Philippe Pourhashemi described her work as a ‘reinterpretation of reality’ (I love it when writers can put things so simply).

Iris’ aesthetic doesn’t necessarily align with my work, yet her search for the newest innovations and technologies to push her designs does. “I like surprising myself and being amazed at things”. For me that’s why I love design, it’s a blank canvas that has infinite possibilities that you could never begin to scratch the surface of (hope that doesn’t sound as pretentious as it did when I was typing it).

Follow the links for more coverage of the S/S11 Couture coverage.

Dazed Digital
A Shaded View on Fashion
Fashionista