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LYFE’S LOOKBOOK

Van Herpen’s collection is inspired by the ocean and American dancer Fuller. – ALL PICS FROM AFP

Oceanic vogue B ODY, movement... and art – Iris van Herpen captures the rhythmics of the ocean and its ecological transformation via translucently layered textures, liquidised forms and silhouttes that rise and fall like tides in her Women’s Haute-Couture Fall/Winter 2025-26 collection during Paris Haute Couture Week. o Diving, dancing during Paris Haute Couture Week together in a

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philosophised Lovelock. Van Herpen’s collection, therefore, explores the notion of unity with the ocean, seeking to bring forth not the uncertainty of the ocean but the beauty of its flamboyant nature. She draws inspiration from the freeform movement of Loie Fuller, an American dancer and a pioneer of modern dance as well as theatrical lighting techniques. “She seems to be in dialogue with the forces of nature in her performances. In my eyes, she was an alchemist of movement, light and fabric, with which she merged dance into sculpture,” said van Herpen. Capturing the precision of Fuller’s movements, silhouettes of her collection mimics the poetic chaos of the ocean. Bold and loud like Fuller and the ocean, here are some of the best from theSun ’s lookbook.

Taking a page out of James Lovelock’s Gaia theory, the couturier interprets the ocean as part of a wide biospheric consciousness, instead of a singular ecosystem. “The ocean and the atmosphere and the climate are all coupled. They are not independent systems – they are tightly woven