Dutch designer Iris van Herpen continued to push the boundaries between vogue and artwork as she introduced her designs on fashions suspended in entrance of big white canvases to imitate artworks. Van Herpen nonetheless has a halo from her blockbuster exhibition ‘Sculpting the Senses’, which drew crowds to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs from November 2023 till the top of April. On Tuesday, she was made Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (‘Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters’) by the French ministry of tradition, on the residence of the Dutch ambassador to France.
“Every time your assortment is greater than a set, it’s an occasion, a efficiency, a tribute to the creativeness, a musical expertise, a complete murals,” Olivier Gabet, directeur du département des objets d’artwork on the Louvre Museum, stated when presenting her the insignia. The designer, who has develop into as well-known as fellow Dutch citizen Rem Koolhaas, based on the ambassador, is off to Brisbane, Australia the place the exhibition opens on 29 June.
Modernity was key on the Jean Paul Gaultier present by Courrèges artistic director Nicolas Di Felice — who’s following within the footsteps of different visitor designers together with Haider Ackermann, Olivier Rousteing, Julien Dossena and Simone Rocha.