IRIS VAN HERPEN: AT THE INTERSECTION OF FASHION AND ART
written past times Heidi Dillon
Iris van Herpen (pronounce Ear-riss) is 1 of the few fashion designers today whose piece of job has the intellectual sustenance to last exhibited inward the context of an fine art museum. Also inward this rarified category of forward-thinking, boundary pushing, rule-breaking avant-garde designers is Rei Kawakubo, whose piece of job is currently the champaign of written report of the Met’s Costume Institute demo entitled Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons Art of the In-Between, Alexander McQueen, Victor & Rolf, Martin Margiela, Gareth Pugh, Vivian Westwood, Yohji Yamamoto as well as John Galliano. There are others who piece of job at the intersection of fine art as well as fashion, only you lot larn my drift. The 33 year-old, soft-spoken Dutch designer studied fashion blueprint at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts Arnhem as well as after landed an internship at Alexander McQueen. By 2007 she had her ain label as well as inward 2011 became a fellow member of the prestigious Parisian Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. Iris, a onetime dancer who cuts a tall, willowy figure, appears – inward contrast to her lavishly embellished oeuvre - to personally favor a minimalist style. And, for what it’s worth, my twenty year-old boy thinks she’s hot.
Many fashion designers piece of job to brand women await good, Iris as well as her avant-garde contemporaries piece of job to brand people possess got about other look. Iris’ dresses, skirts as well as tops are wild, fantastical, gorgeous as well as extreme as well as are united past times the exercise of state-of-the-art applied scientific discipline as well as their simple, bodycon silhouettes – the most basic components of the fashion ecosystem. The piece of job gives the impression of beingness futuristic, however, Iris states that they are not; they are rattling much of the minute equally she uses applied scientific discipline that is readily available. In addition, they are showtime as well as firstly clothes that are made to last worn as well as possess got been past times celebrities such equally Bork, Katy Perry as well as Tilda Swinton. Iris’ piece of job contains all of the principles as well as elements of fine fine art including the interpretation of heady, high concepts such equally the upshot of electricity on the body, the transformative experience of skydiving as well as the ambiguity as well as elusiveness of manufacturing works life smoke. Iris’ multi-disciplinary approach as well as collaborations alongside artists, architects as well as scientists takes her piece of job agency beyond traditional fashion. However, the trunk is her muse as well as movement is the key. Iris believes that spell her piece of job is sculptural, it is non sculpture because each blueprint is alone fully realized when it is beingness worn.
This, then, begs the age-old question: Can fashion last art? Karl Lagerfeld, Miuccia Prada as well as Rei Kawakubo all deny that fashion is art. As beautiful, evocative, idea provoking as well as conceptual equally fashion tin be, it is a creative industry; it is component of our daily lives as well as thus has a practical purpose, which fine art does not. Historically, however, definitions of fine art possess got changed. In the past times alone Old Masters paintings as well as classical music were considered to last legitimate works of art. Later, inward 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted a urinal equally a slice of sculpture entitled “Fountain” to the Society of Independent Artists exhibition. The slice was to last turned ninety degrees – thus rendering it functionally useless. It was rejected, only he made the betoken that the creative someone is the selector as well as went on to designate other ordinary, “Readymade” objects equally art. Andy Warhol began his career equally a commercial artist. After about attempts at transitioning to fine art, inward 1962 he made a serial of Campbell’s soup cans that resembled printed advertisements only were manus painted. He exhibited them all together on shelves similar a grocery shop display. In about sense, Iris’ idea procedure reminds me a footling of the Lucas Samaras chair transformations. His intention inward the serial of 25 pieces was to de-familiarize the chairs past times the exercise of a perverse as well as witty assortment of materials that possess got the objects out of their traditional context. Thus, dissimilar Iris’ dresses, most of the chairs cannot last used for their intended purpose.
Since what is considered to last fine art has evolved dramatically over the years, mayhap fashion is beingness legitimized. Fashion exhibitions inward fine art museums possess got sure enough blurred the line. The fact remains, however, dissimilar fine art criticism, fashion has non been subjected to the same high-level critical interpretations. The French philosopher Pierre Bourdiew said, “The piece of job of fine art is an object which exists alone past times virtue of the (collective) belief which knows as well as acknowledges it equally a piece of job of art.” After all is said as well as done, I don’t assist whether or non fashion is art. The Scottish soccer instrumentalist as well as manger Bill Shankley felt nearly football game (soccer) the same agency I experience nearly fashion: “Some say football game is a thing of life as well as decease – I’d say it’s much to a greater extent than of import than that”.
Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion is available for viewing at the Dallas Museum of Art at 1 time through August 20, 2017. This exhibit volition involve a $16.00 exceptional exhibition ticket alongside discounts for seniors, students, as well as military. DMA Members as well as children xi as well as nether are free.
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