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Iris van Herpen Prints Couture: The Dress as Sculpture, Solved Digitally
The Dutch designer joined the official Paris couture calendar in 2011 and made 3D printing, laser cutting and magnetism standard couture techniques.
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Art covers the point where collections meet contemporary practice: commissioned sets, artist collaborations, sculptural garments and shows staged inside museums. Pieces take both disciplines seriously and ask what each takes from the other. Suited to readers who follow galleries and fashion weeks with equal attention.
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One Piece of Cloth: Issey Miyake's Engineering Career in Fashion
Pleats, A-POC and 132 5.: the late Japanese designer treated the garment as a problem in geometry — and solved it with a studio that still runs the lab.
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The Lobster Dress: How Elsa Schiaparelli Put Surrealism on the Body
Working with Dalí in the 1930s, Schiaparelli turned jokes into garments — and established that fashion could hold an art argument.
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Two Robots, One Dress: Inside Alexander McQueen's No. 13
The spring 1999 finale in London, in which industrial arms spray-painted a white dress on a rotating model, remains fashion's clearest case for the runway as performance art.
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How the Met's Costume Institute Turns a Runway Into an Exhibition
A collection of roughly 35,000 garments, light-sensitive to the hour, makes fashion the hardest art to put in a museum.