Iris van Herpen Hypnosis

On July 1st, 2019, Iris van Herpen presented her latest Couture collection, titled Hypnosis, at Élysée Montmartre in Paris. The collection is inspired by the hypnotic manifolds within our ecologies through the work of American artist Anthony Howe. The threedimensional cyclical harmony of Howes kinetic sculptures is the wind beneath the wings of this collection. Howe s spherical Omniverse sculpture explores our relationship with nature and intertwines with infinite expansion and contraction, expressing a universal life cycle. The meditative movement of the Omniverse serves as a portal for the collection and the models, encircling a state of hypnosis. The collaboration with Howe evolves in an ecstasy of attentiveness through the symbiosis of all the elements of nature that are dependent on each other. As one of the key pieces of the collection, the finale Infinity dress comes alive on the breath of a finely balanced mechanism. An engineered skeleton of aluminium, stainless steel and bearings is