"It was created by Iris van Herpen in collaboration with the Tokyo-London design studio A.A.Murakami. Assembled from 15,000 hand-formed glass bubbles, it took 2,550 hours to construct, and contained hidden microprocessors that released real bubbles into the air as Gu moved."
""It represents the air that's inside of our bodies," says Matthew Yokobosky, the Brooklyn Museum's senior curator of fashion and material culture. "Over 90% of our bodies are made up of air.""
"Over two decades, van Herpen has built a body of work that treats science as a creative collaborator. She has made couture inspired by the air in our lungs, the architecture of a stingray's skeleton, the magnetic fields of the Large Hadron Collider. She has worked with architects, paleontologists, and biologists, and used everything from iron filings to magnets to bioluminescent algae as raw materials."
"The Brooklyn Museum has been making that argument for nearly a century. Its 1934 Story of Silk exhibition is often cited as the beginning of fashion's museum era; it has since staged retrospectives of work by Madame Grès, Schiaparelli, Jean Paul Gaultier, Pierre Cardin, Christian Dior, Virgil Abloh, and Thierry Mugler. Sculpting the Senses extends the lineage."
A shimmering gown worn at the Met Gala was created by Iris van Herpen with A.A.Murakami. The dress was assembled from 15,000 hand-formed glass bubbles over 2,550 hours and included hidden microprocessors that released real bubbles as the wearer moved. The gown is part of a retrospective opening at the Brooklyn Museum on May 16, Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses, marking a North American debut after international travel. The 2016 bubble dress will be shown, representing air inside human bodies, with more than 90% of body composition described as air. The work connects fashion with science through materials and collaborations across disciplines, redefining fashion as art.
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