Magnetic dresses
through a collision of physics and fashion, dutch artist jólan van der wiel has collaborated with dutch fashion designer iris van herpen for a collection of magnetically grown couture. stretching the limits of the magnetic medium, van der wiel’s study of physics and gravity allows for a physical reinterpretation, working with iron filings and molten plastic to organically grow various shapes and forms. the resulting maturation of the material, in fusion with textile and fabric, generate ‘dresses whose very forms are generated by the phenomenon of attraction and repulsion.’, van der wiel describes.
