Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris 2023 -2024
Kim Keever collaborated with world-renowned designer Iris van Herpen to create three couture looks in her Spring 2019 collection, Shift Souls. Now a retrospective exhibition, Fashioning the Future, will feature Kim Keever’s artwork in Rooms 11-12 - Voyage Cosmique.
From Musée des Arts Décoratifs “From November 29, 2023 to April 28, 2024, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs pays tribute to Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen, now recognized as one of the most avant-garde figures of her generation. Organized as an immersive and sensory exploration into the designer’s universe, this retrospective merging fashion, contemporary art, design and science, revolves around eight themes that identify the very essence of van Herpen’s body of work.”
Look 14, Shift Souls Collection by Iris Van Herpen, collaboration with Kim Keever
Alchemic explosion ～ Karen Elson captured by Luigi and Iango.
Look 10, Shift Souls Collection by Iris Van Herpen, collaboration with Kim Keever
Excerpt from Vogue, January 21, 2019:
“Van Herpen is a voracious researcher who finds her message at the nexus of historical, scientific, artistic, and futuristic references. She would not have introduced color for color’s sake. Backstage, she cited inspirations that spanned the Harmonia Macrocosmica (a 17th-century star atlas) to the possibility of engineered human hybrids. Cut to the 3-D-printed face-contouring jewelry, the cloud-like dresses in translucent organza (a collaboration with New York–based artist and former NASA engineer Kim Keever), and the dress with “anamorphic faces” embedded into undulating layers of white silk outlined in black. There was something Picasso-esque to the way the eyes moved as the model walked—a surrealist flourish within a graceful creation. The two final looks followed a similar construction, except that the petal-like projections now appeared to be emerging from the body, not just covering it. And in warm bursts of color, the modified anatomies that remain a fascination for Van Herpen were no longer so severe.”
Iris Van Herpen Fashioning The Future Exhibition Dates:
Paris, France: 11/29/2023-4/24/2024
Brisbane, Australia: 5/24-10/2024
Singapore: Spring 2025
Rotterdam, Netherlands - TBD
USA - TBD