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Mrr.____ a futuristic garment-sculpture collection by Key Chow Ka Wa

A fairytale about two men who created sculpture of themselves on a desserted island for their wedding. Running away from a society that didn’t accept them the two lovers found materials on galaxies, ice fields, wood farms and landfills to create a collection of wearable sculpture-like garments for them to marry. Finally, they make themselves into a sculpture, indifferent to the world forever.

This collection by Key Chow Ka Wa experiments the relationship between the traditional craftsmanship with latest technology, mixing traditions with innovations.

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Prototype Triangle Numéro 1 wooden T-shirt by Pauline Marcombe

French designer Pauline Marcombe has made a wooden T-shirt. Called Prototype Triangle Numéro 1, it’s made from laser-cut triangles of MDF assembled with wire.

Numbers generated by the computer software that’s used to control the cutting are burnt into the pieces “to highlight the process of digital fabrication,” she says.“I like to explore the borders and crossing points of architecture, music and fashion,” Marcombe continues. “Since my graduation project I’ve been obsessed with triangles and I’m now working on a second prototype based on body movement.”

Another example of how technology is the new trend. Marcombe trained as an architect in Toulouse and Paris, and she graduated from TU Delft in the Netherlands.

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Capriole, Iris Van Herper Fall/Winter 2012 Collection

The fashion commentariat is proclaiming Iris Van Herpen the next Alexander McQueen. With Capriole, her Fall/Winter 2011-12 collection, it’s easy to see why. Revealed at the hyper-exclusive Paris Couture Show this summer, the 27-year-old Dutch fashion designer’s line packed the runway with so many showstoppers — from a tube dress that looked like it was frozen in ice to a frightening minidress crawling with slithery, Medusian coils — it could’ve knocked Anna Wintour’s sunglasses right off her helmet head.

Her trick is to manipulate technology to test the limits of fashion. Generally, she makes her pieces by combining rapid-prototyping and traditional sewing. For instance, she’ll cut strips of plastic, using a selective laser sintering machine, then arrange them into a garment by hand.

In Capriole, she partnered with architects Isaie Bloch and MGX to research and develop five new works that fuse the old techniques with the new. You can see the results in the clothes above — though “clothes” isn’t quite accurate here; they’re more like sculptures with models hanging off of them — which manage to pair the theatricality of McQueen with a computer geek’s soul.

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Capriole by Iris Van Herpen Fall 2011-12

This season, the traditionally privileged guests of the Paris Couture shows for Fall-Winter 2011-12 not only had the opportunity to watch the of the established couture houses’ creational extravaganzas, but also to watch the debut presentation of Iris Van Herpen – a collection that we could say was more of a line-up of sheer craftsmanship put into practice.

Iris Van Herpen, age 27,  graduated from the prominent fashion school ARTEZ (Arnhem) with a Fashion Design degree and then carried out internships with  Claudy Jongstra and Alexander McQueen – whose influences pervade throughout in her style and techniques.  That which distinguishes her creatively, is that she manages to create a unique type of couture that combines the qualities of hand-worked materials with the sublime effects of digital technology.

In Capriole, her latest collection, the designer presented five architectural looks, which she developed using this combined technique. The essence of Iris Van Herpen’s work relies upon her need to highlight the contradiction between beauty and regeneration. It makes her unique in expressing human individuality.

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Hybrid holism a 3D printed shoe collection with fangs

Dutch designer Iris van Herpen, originator of 3D-printed fashion and frequent dresser of Bjork and Lady Gaga, is back with a new anthropomorphic shoe created for the architectural footwear brand,United Nude.

The 7.4 inch (!!!) wedge is encased in slow-molded acrylic, punctured at the arch by a gnarled twist of hand-cut gemstone “teeth” in Labradorite, Tiger’s Eye, Leopard Jasper and Moss Agate. It’s a ferocious take on the popular Lita platform, and a continuation of van Herpen’s Spring/Summer Unite Nude collab, Fang–another bootie with a platform of carbon fiber fangs.

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