Iris van Herpen

Iris van Herpen (born 5 June 1984) is a Dutch fashion designer.van Herpen started her fashion label in 2007. She is a guest member of the Parisian Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, part of the Fédération française de la couture. Van Herpen has shown her collections at the Paris Fashion Week since January 2011. Van Herpen's work has been included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.Much of her work has been characterized as belonging to the subfield of fantasy couture.

Van Herpen attended the Preparatory Course Art & Design at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem. During her high school years, she became particularly interested in designing clothes. She studied Fashion Design at ArtEZ, interned at Alexander McQueen in London and Claudy Jongstra in Amsterdam and graduated in 2006. In 2007, she started her own label focusing on women's wear collections. For this reason, Van Herpen prefers interdisciplinary research and collaborations with other artists. Van Herpen is a pioneer in utilizing 3D-printing as a garment construction technique, and an innovator using technology as one of the guiding principles in her work.

Because of van Herpen's multidisciplinary approach to creation, she has collaborated with various artists such as Jolan van der Wiel and Neri Oxman and architects such as Philip Beesley and Benthem and Crouwel Architects. The designer's interest in science and technology has led to ongoing conversations with CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Further collaborations:

• Björk
• Benjamin Millepied
• Sasha Waltz
• Nick Knight

• TIME Magazine names Iris van Herpen's 3D printed dresses one of the 50 Best Inventions of 2011.
• ANDAM Grand Prix Award (2014)
• STARTS Prize, granted by the European Commission (2016)
• Johannes Vermeer Award, Dutch state prize for the arts (2017)
• 2019 Prix Versailles World Judge