The Dutch designer Iris van Herpen has embellished  the faces of her models, with delicate laser cut jewelry, in her last Fall-Winter 2019-20 fashion show. Discover these facial ornaments here.

By Ludmilla Intravaia

Blending haute couture and technology to achieve pure artistic delight, that’s the challenge taken every season by the Dutch designer Iris van Herpen. Her Hypnosis show, last July, in Paris, confirms this immutable re-invention, with the depth of its three-dimensional reflection on the beauty, complexity and fragility of our environment (to learn more, read this Le Boudoir Numérique paper : "Iris van Herpen’s Infinity dress comes to life on the runway" and discover the show below).

Among her hypnotic dresses, their endlessly repeated motives, their streams of transparencies playing with our senses ..., three silhouettes imposed themself by their poetic facial ornaments, posed on the faces of the models like enigmatic jewels butterflies.

“The Hypnosis face jewelry are made from mirrored metal and are laser-cut, to then be bended into 3D shape by hand, to custom fit to each face very precisely”, explained Iris van Herpen, to Le Boudoir Numérique, on July 10th, 2019 : “The face jewelry are inspired by hypnosis and the symbiotic cycles of our biosphere that interweave the air, land, and oceans. They reflect our ongoing blindness towards the rhythms of life and nature's fragility.” These jewels are available on order to the designer's studio in Amsterdam

* Continue your discovery of the recent tech accessories with these Le Boudoir Numérique papers : "Fine Jewelery in 3D printing by Diana Law", “Light Up accessories by Cyberdog” and “Luminous accessories by Louis Vuitton”.

* This research on fashion tech accessories took place, while writing a paper for Belgian magazine Le Vif Weekend, dated September 26, 2019. Discover it right here.