Iris van Herpen Shift Souls
On January 21st, 2019, Iris van Herpen presented her latest Haute Couture collection, titled Shift Souls at Palais des BeauxArts in Paris. The collection was inspired by early examples of celestial cartography and its representations of mythological and astrological chimera, Van Herpen was particularly taken with Harmonia Macrocosmica, a star atlas by the GermanDutch cartographer Andreas Cellarius, published in 1600. With the advances in DNA engineering and the first successful creations of human, anima hybrids called Cybrids, the mythological dreams of Humankind since the dawn of civilization are shifting to the canvas of science. While the scientific and ethical implications of Cybrids are still unclear, this collection expresses the fact that this reality is upon us. For Shift Souls I looked at the evolution of the human shape, its idealization through time and the hybridization of the female forms within mythology. Specially the imagination and the fluidity within identity change in Japan
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