{"id":846075,"date":"2026-08-04T19:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846075\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T19:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:02:14","slug":"the-day-i-pleated-with-iris-van-herpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/846075\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day I Pleated With Iris van Herpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a class=\"gh-article-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/tag\/feature\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Feature<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">A show at the Brooklyn Museum invites guests to work alongside the Dutch fashion designer in her recreated atelier. <\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/author\/livia-caligor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/liviacaligor-32x32.jpg\" alt=\"Livia Caligor\"\/><br \/>\n                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/irisvanherpen1.jpg\" alt=\"The Day I Pleated With Iris van Herpen\"\/><br \/>\n            Fashion designer Iris van Herpen (left) with Hyperallergic contributor Livia Caligor (courtesy Livia Caligor) <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hands are like a language,&#8221; Iris van Herpen says as we pleat a textile together inside the recreated atelier at the center of Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses. \u201cEach pair that joins me in creating this dress will influence the DNA of the garment.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A first of its kind, the live installation at the Brooklyn Museum invites visitors to work alongside the Dutch fashion designer in creating a garment that will evolve over the course of the show\u2019s run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to share the most beautiful part of my work \u2014 the craftsmanship \u2014 in a really intimate setting,\u201d van Herpen tells Hyperallergic in an interview. \u201cMy atelier is my most sacred space.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Based in the Netherlands, she will periodically return to the recreated studio throughout the exhibition, transforming visitors\u2019 pleated textiles into a garment and embroidering fragments of their conversations into it. <\/p>\n<p>    Create a free account, or sign in to continue reading.<\/p>\n<p>Registered readers of Hyperallergic get access to a limited number of free articles every month, and the Hyperallergic Daily newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>      <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" style=\"color:#00AEEE\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feature A show at the Brooklyn Museum invites guests to work alongside the Dutch fashion designer in her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-846075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}