Just openedIris van Herpen: Sculpting the SensesThrough December 6
About This Event
Iris van Herpen is a Dutch fashion designer whose couture practice merges handwork, engineering and experimental materials; her work has been shown at the Met and Cooper Hewitt. At the Brooklyn Museum, Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses frames that process-oriented approach—favoring structure and material innovation over surface glamour—within a museum exhibition context.
About Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses
At the Brooklyn Museum, *Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses* surveys the Dutch designer’s fashion work as an art exhibition. Van Herpen launched her label in 2007 and entered the Paris haute couture system as a guest member in 2011, building a practice that threads digital techniques through handcraft. The show frames garments as engineered objects as much as clothing, placing couture inside a New York museum context rather than on a runway. One clear takeaway is how technology here functions as a material, not a gimmick.
About the Artist
Iris van Herpen
Iris van Herpen is a Dutch fashion designer whose practice treats couture as a meeting point for handwork, engineering, and new materials. She launched her namesake label in 2007 and entered the Paris haute couture calendar in 2011 as a guest member of the Chambre Syndicale, presenting collections at Paris Fashion Week since then.