Iris Van Herpen’s experiments in technological design fuel the creation of a digital world

Bringing a tangibility to spaces distanced from common understanding, the emergence of new digital worlds is opening the fashion-scape to possibilities in which physicality is secondary. Yet, as one of fashion’s true innovators, Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen has been augmenting design practices that foreshadowed these developments for nearly two decades, experimenting with 3D printing, and technologies that blur human skill with digital advancement, while creating otherworldly immersive landscapes through the runway spectacles used to showcase them...read more on www.nowness.com _______________________________________ Subscribe to NOWNESS here: http://bit.ly/youtube-nowness Like NOWNESS on Facebook: http://bit.ly/facebook-nowness Follow NOWNESS on Twitter: http://bit.ly/twitter-nowness Daily exclusives for the culturally curious: http://bit.ly/nowness-com Behind the scenes on Instagram: http://bit.ly/instagram-nowness Staff Picks on Vimeo: http://bit.ly/vimeo-nowness