PARIS — Iris van Herpen is a Dutch designer whose otherworldly fashion creations utilize technology to an extent seldom seen outside of a laboratory. Then there were the shoes. Made from soft leather pieces, one of which wrapped around the wearer’s ankle, each pair had transparent plexiglass heels. Blocks of the material were infused with two colors of ink, which took four days to distill into molten colored clouds; then, the heels were carved by hand into undulating curves. Unlike some of Ms. van Herpen’s previous footwear creations, often wedges that teetered on the fringes of fantasy to the point of impracticality, these shoes combined a strange beauty with a sturdy commercial clout.

Source: New York Times January 22, 2019 15:56 UTC