Iris Van Herpen - Spring Fashion week 2014
There has been a persistent trend throughout 2013, coined as a elegant dystopian or futurist look - with a color range that mostly sits within the darker scale i.e shades of black, gray and browns, overlay with symmetrical patterns and shapes. With some designers creating a tough, in someways a warrior styled look. Iris Van Herpen's, contemporary neo-gothic, futurist style maintains that distinction. She has been noted for shaping 3D printer work into her designs, which personally I feel 3D printing is still showing up as a standard look, at this point indistinguishable from other 3D pattern makers, which in turn is creating a homogeneous feel to 3D Printing. Although it is still in it's infancy and the outlay costs would be exorbitant to maintain the equipment, it remains to be seen if it is a game changer.
Van Herpen's appeal to me with her 2014 Spring range is the paradoxical androgynous and femininity mix, which she seems to have put to together in a very intelligent, but at the same time, blunt way - in a sense, it forces the viewer, the audience, with their imagination to meld the styles of rugged and futurist clothing that owes it's self very much to androgyny, yet allowing a femininity to also co-exist. An absolutely stunning collection.
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