In an electric show, Iris van Herpen breaks the fabric barrier. She even grew a dress.

Each of Van Herpen’s 18 looks felt like an ecosystem unto itself: here a kinetic dress in collaboration with artist Casey Curran, undulating like some alien skeleton; there Japanese “air ...

The Dutch designer created a "living look" composed of 125 million bioluminescent algae, while other dresses drifted, fluttered and trembled.

Iris Van Herpen has taken her haute couture R&D to another astonishing frontier, creating a “living look” incorporating 125 million bioluminescent algae that she said require eight hours of rest, ...

Iris Van Herpen unveils 'living' couture dress of bioluminescent algae in Paris Dutch wunderkind and celebrity-favorite Iris Van Herpen has occupied fashion’s edge for years ...

Dutch wunderkind and celebrity-favorite Iris Van Herpen has occupied fashion’s edge for years. Van Herpen conjured couture from unexpected sources. They included banana leaves, cocoa beans and ...

For years, Dutch wunderkind and celebrity favorite Iris Van Herpen has occupied fashion’s edge — not just with boundary-pushing designs conjured from banana leaves, cocoa beans and 3D-printed ...

Iris Van Herpen has created clothes sensitive to magnetic fields, and made exoskeletons out of wood, but a look that is animate exceeds even her own expectations.

Created using 125 million living bioluminescent microalgae, a "living dress" stole the show at Iris Van Herpen's Paris Couture Week showcase.