


Creating form and structure in inventive ways that consists of interdisciplinary research and the collaboration with pioneering artists and scientists giving life to the idea that fashion is beyond clothing and targets not only style but technology, art and science.Ĭrazy cool: retro-futuristic pop art fashion by Watanabe. Her modern view translates into an artistic expression that focuses on the idea of beauty and regeneration, translating them through wearable art. She makes each and every collection with greatly skilled craftsmanship that mixes together long lost (nearly forgotten) and groundbreaking design techniques. Iris Van Herpen is an innovative creative who is renowned for her merging of science and digital technology in fashion design.

Above: Herpen gets inspiration from the force of nature for her Fall/Winter 2013 runway collection at Paris Fashion Week.Ĭollaborating with Neri Oxman and Julia Koerner, Iris van Herpen creates these unusual pieces with 3D printing technology. These creatives are using their inventive interdisciplinary research to produce avant-garde wearables, pioneering on a new frontier in the fashion tech world. Whether it is heavy hitting ready-to-wear innovators Herpen, Watanabe, Yamamoto, and Miyake, there is another realm of designers who may not have been academically or directly trained in the art of fashion, but are using their tech and science knowledge and merging it with fashion. In a world that is constantly evolving scientifically and technologically, so is fashion-one of the largest, multi-billion-dollar industries.Īnd while there is much respect found in the traditionally ancient ways of creating fashion, there are artists and designers who are breaching the mold.
