Iris van Herpen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting.
-- Iris van Herpen

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Everybody could have their body scanned and order clothes that fit perfectly
-- Iris van Herpen

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I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance
-- Iris van Herpen

#Chaos #Performances
Everybody could have their own body scanned and just order clothes that fit perfectly.
-- Iris van Herpen

#Order #Clothes #Body

I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down
For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go to the circus, beyond any question of fashion, at least one or two times a year-I am not speaking here to the real enthusiasts, they know better than I what they have to do.
People always ask what I would have done if I weren't doing what I'm doing. And I say I'd [still] be in fashion or in beauty. It's such a dream come true now because I have the ability to go into home [goods] and accessories as well.
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.
The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.
We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

Iris van Herpen famous quotes

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