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* Numbered special edition of 3000

Embossed hardcover

Dimensions: 330 x 250 mm - 256 Pages

Signed by Iris van Herpen

Artist additions:
* Art print of an original illustration by Iris van Herpen
* Technical pattern-drawing on transparent sheet
* Original archive fabric swatch

LIMITED ARTIST EDITION

This Artist Edition - personally signed and numbered by Iris van Herpen - comes with three unique elements that show the designer’s creative process from idea to material tests : an original Haute Couture art print illustration by Iris van Herpen, a technical pattern drawing on a transparent sheet, as well as a hand-picked fabric swatch which comes straight from her archive. Each limited Artist Edition holds an individual compilation of these exclusive items which makes every book unique.

THE ART OF HAUTE COUTURE

Sculpting the Senses is an oeuvre of van Herpen’s work from the last sixteen years pushing a multidisciplinary dialogue between fashion, nature, art, and science.

It chronicles not only the most iconic designs, but also explores her vision on shaping fashion more intelligently including future-facing technology and craftsmanship that often blur the boundaries between the organic and the artificial.

Published to coincide with the retrospective exhibition at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the book brings together hundred striking Haute Couture designs of Iris van Herpen that transform the body into multi-sensory beings.

Organized as an immersive and sensorial exploration into the designer’s universe, this retrospective reveals the creative mind of van Herpen that transposes the role of design and technology in the shaping of our senses and human experience, revealed in nine themes that identify the very essence of her vision.

Extraordinary closeup photos reveal close collaborations with researchers, architects, artists and engineers for cutting-edge materials and techniques. Sculpting the Senses questions the place of the body in space, its relationship to its environment as well as its future in a rapidly changing world.

AUTHORS
The book echoes the concept of the exhibition - starting with an introduction by curator Cloé Pitiot presenting Iris van Herpen’s universe and its relations between dance, arts, and design. It will be followed by an article written by Louise Curtis, assistant curator, on Iris van Herpen’s collaborations. The foreword is written by actress Tilda Swinton. Ariane Koek - Founder of Arts at CERN - links Iris her work with the world of science in the article: “On the Edge of the Im/material”. An exclusive interview by Art curator and critic Hans Ulrich Obrist, reveals the most imperative moments of the past sixteen years.