82% matchIssey Miyake
Engineering-led garment construction, pleating as technology
What changes: Ready-to-wear scale and price, not one-off couture
Brand profile
Iris Van Herpen
Dutch haute couture house founded in 2007, fusing 3D printing, biofabricated materials and handcraft into sculptural, science-driven garments shown in Paris.
AmsterdamOrigin
WomenswearFocus
Avant-gardeStyle
$$$$$Price
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What to know about Iris Van Herpen
Couture by commission, not racks
Founder-owned Amsterdam atelier selling haute couture by commission on the Paris couture calendar, with pieces widely held in museum collections rather than stores.
Garments engineered, not just sewn
Construction runs on 3D printing, laser cutting, hand-sculpted resin and biofabricated materials, developed alongside scientists, architects and engineers.
Material experiments go literally living
The Fall 2025 Sympoiesis collection, shown July 7, 2025, included a dress grown with roughly 125 million living bioluminescent algae.
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Brand facts
Iris van Herpen is an independent Dutch couture house founded in 2007 by the ArtEZ graduate and former Alexander McQueen intern of the same name, with its atelier in Amsterdam. It shows on the Paris Haute Couture Week calendar and builds garments through 3D printing, laser cutting, hand-sculpted resin and biofabricated materials, developed with scientists, architects and engineers. The Fall 2025 collection Sympoiesis, presented July 7, 2025, included a dress grown with roughly 125 million living bioluminescent algae. The label remains founder-owned, sells couture by commission and is widely collected by museums.
- Founded
- 2007
- Origin
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Made in
- Netherlands
- Price
- $$$$$
- Focus
- Womenswear
- Facts checked
- September 2026
- Styles
- Avant-garde, Techwear, Minimalist / Contemporary