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, a