The American actress Hailee Steinfeld walked the Metropolitan Museum of Art red carpet in New York, on September 13, wearing an Iris van Herpen outfit made from Parley Ocean Plastic.

By Ludmilla Intravaia

“Iris, you smashed”, “The details of the dress are impeccable”, “exquisite”, “I am just in complete awe”… it was in these enthousiastic terms that the fans of Iris van Herpen greeted, on Instagram, the photo of Hailee Steinfeld, two days after her appearance wearing a dress by the Dutch designer on the red carpet of the MET Gala, in New York.

Well-deserved compliments for this delicate Magnetosphere dress made in collaboration with the English artist Rogan Brown, known for his paper installations combining art and science in an ode to nature's wonders.

But this dress is also exceptional because it is made from Ocean Plastic, a material recycled from plastic harvested at sea by the American environmental protection movement Parley for the Oceans. An innovative material that the tech-savvy designer had already used for the Holobiont dress from her Spring-Summer 2021 haute couture collection unveiled as part of Paris Fashion Week, on January 25 (more info in this Boudoir Numérique article).

The Magnetosphere dress is part of Iris van Herpen's latest haute couture collection, Earthrise.

Below, discover Iris van Herpen’s Fall-Winter 2021/2022 Earthrise collection, presented in video, on July 5, as part of Paris Fashion Week.

Iris van Herpen was particularly present during the gala evening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The American actress Tessa Thompson appeared in the Syntopia dress from the Fall-Winter 2018/2019 collection celebrating the convergence of biology and technology (more info in this Boudoir Numérique article).

The Canadian singer Grimes transformed into a Dune-inspired Bene Gesserit in a laser-cut dress, a technology prized by Iris van Herpen (more info in this Boudoir Numérique article).

As for the American actress Gabrielle Union, she set her sights on the Aeternus dress (more info in this article in Le Boudoir Numérique).

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