IRIS VAN HERPEN - Biopiracy Fall 2014

In the recent past, patents on our genes have been purchased. Are we still the sole proprietor of our bodies? From this question arises a sense of arrested freedom in one's most intimate, solitary state. 

This collection was presented with artist Lawrence Malstaf who specalizes in the interaction between biology and physicality. Models were floating in the air, embryonic, seemingly weightless and in a mediative animation, the result was a foetus-like catwalk presentation. I was stitching the liquid silk runway pieces as well as developing the handbeadings for the vacuum dresses. I worked as well on the leather braiding pieces for the Hybrid Holism F/W 2012 collection.

ROLE

Internship Textile Design

DISCIPLINES

Textile Design

Patternmaking

Research

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