Marking her brand’s 15th birthday, Iris van Herpen held her first physical couture show in years on the wooden-floored ballroom of the Élysée Montmartre.
Her 16 dresses stayed true to her idealized vision of fashion, suspended between organic and futuristic, and often defying gravity.
Always pushing the boundaries of technology, fabric innovation, and haute couture craftsmanship, her dresses were somewhere between insect wings and carnivorous plants.
The most surprising example was the royal Narcissus coat where the collar and shoulder line opened like a flower while others resembled snowflakes on steroids or creatures of the deep sea.
©Iris van Herpen