Tag: Designer
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Dutch Designer Iris van Herpen’s High-Tech Garments Are On View in a Mid-Career Retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum
In 2010,Iris van Herpen, only three years after establishing her eponymous couture brand, sent the first 3D-printed garment down the runway as part of her “Crystallization” collection. A top evoking the skeletal structure of a snake with its ivory-colored coils of 3D-printed polyamide, the piece was a collaboration with British architect Daniel Widrig. “It was read more
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Designer Dries Van Noten to Launch Foundation in Venice Ahead of the Biennale
Fashion designer Dries Van Noten and his partner Patrick Vangheluwe will launch next month a new foundation in Venice dedicated to craftsmanship. The new Fondazione Dries Van Noten will be located in the historic Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the Grand Canal in the San Polo neighborhood. Over the course of each year, the foundation will read more
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Jean Widmer, Centre Pompidou Logo Designer, Dies at 96
Jean Widmer, a French-Swiss graphic designer whose minimalist aesthetic manifested a striking logo for Centre Pompidou upon its opening in 1977, died on February 2 at the age of 96. His death was announced by Centre Pompidou, which said, “Since that day in 1977, Widmer’s logo has travelled the world, weathering the decades without ever read more
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Iconic Fashion Designer and Art Collector Valentino Garavani Dies at 93
Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani died in Rome, the birthplace of his eponymous brand, on Jan. 19 at age 93. Garavani was born in Voghera, a town south of Milan in northern Italy. He moved to Paris as a young man, where he continued his fashion studies and worked for French designers Jean Dessès and read more
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