SEM Images [2012]

Iris Van Herpen, Bart Oomes & Stephen Meyer, The Netherlands. Copyright of The Groninger Museum. [www.irisvanherpen.com]

From Iris van Herpen’s most recent Spring 2012 couture collection, Micro, these images show work that was inspired by scientific SEM photographs of bacilli, vermin, mites, lice and termites. Commenting on the work Van Haerpen noted that she wanted to show their beauty because in her eyes they were the most bizarre, unbelievable and most imaginative creatures imaginable. The bulbous dresses were fashioned from clusters of amphibious-looking plexiglass, 3D modeled on the computer before sewed onto the garments.