IRIS VAN HERPEN: SCULPTING THE SENSES @ BROOKLYN MUSEUM

Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses at the Brooklyn Museum

A decade after I roadtripped to Atlanta, Georgia to see Iris van Herpen's exhibit Transforming Fashion at the High Museum, Sculpting the Senses has landed in New York—and somehow, seeing Van Herpen’s work again feels both familiar and entirely new. The exhibition, on view at the Brooklyn Museum, brings together more than 140 haute couture creations with contemporary art, design, scientific artifacts, and natural-history specimens. Visitors can even walk into a recreated atelier and be surrounded by her creative process. Rather than presenting fashion as something simply worn, the exhibition asks us to consider clothing as an evolving relationship between the human body, nature, technology, movement, and the world around us. Keep reading to see inside the press preview.... 

IRIS VAN HERPEN : TRANSFORMING STYLE

 [Center] Refinery Smoke dress (July 2008) at Iris Van Herpen: Transforming Style at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta

Winter holidays present the perfect opportunity to pack the posse into my momma's 'mobile and road trip 2,000+ miles from NYC to Atlanta. Besides the prospect of Bojangle's buttermilk biscuits and southern style sweet tea, an exceptional exhibit on science + style make the High Museum a formidable final destination. Inside, Iris Van Herpen's first North American show, Iris Van Herpen: Transforming Style, affords its audience a breathtaking look into the Dutch designer's creative process. Keep reading for pictures inside the exhibit...