Our own Philip Beesley has just completed another collaboration with the incredible fashion designer Iris van Herpen. Iris uses various fabrication methods to develop materials and textures unique even for haute couture. Current students Adam Schwartzentruber and Anne Sewell drew key details, led by Waterloo Architecture grads Andrea Ling, Eric Bury, and Jonathan Tyrrell.
A great video profile of Iris and footage of the show are below.
Iris van Herpen Profile
Iris van Herpen S/S 2013 show
This week the BRIDGECast hosts get into the topics of non-functional fashion for women and why its meant to be primarily aesthetic, how cursive writing dying off and what that may mean for younger generations, what exactly our fascination with aging is and why we seek immortality and the economics of sleep and how that really plays out in our lives.
Through his thesis "Sentient Matter," Mark Wang developed a prototype that translates human movements that are expressive of emotion into continuous surface transformations, translating emotive states into architectural form. Find out more at his thesis defence on Thursday September 17, 2015 at 7:30 pm in ARC 3003.
Modern architecture is the vernacular of Waterloo. [...]
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