Our latex couture submissions into the World of Wearable Art always have us marveling at all the amazing designs we see at the show/ competition. But this is not the only place where we indulge our interest in innovative modern fashion and its production. Be it some unusual textile, a new technology employed in rendering, an update for how fashion press is being disseminated, being introduced to new websites and models, we love considering all that swirls around us. Yes, somethings we take to, some fly by in the flash of an instant (the way of so much of the modern world) but fashion innovation and the consideration of alternative styles is always on the forefront of what Dawnamatrix does or strives for.
Given the above raison d’être, you can bet we were keeping our eye on the rush of premiers for The Devil Wears Prada 2. And while yes, we figured the stars, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, Meryl Streepand Emily Blunt, would be outfitted in fantastic fashion—as much for the usual red carpet movie premier as for what the movie is about!—cameras caught Hathaway at special screening for another movie, Mother Mary, dressed in something we surely could not ignore.
The actor wore a black gown from Iris van Herpen’s Spring/Summer 2020 couture collection, called Sensory Seas. Inspired by the work of neuroanatomist Ramón y Cajal, specifically his ground-breaking anatomical drawings of the human central nervous system, the dress Hathaway wore was created from laser-cut leather pieces, linked together in a high-neck corset top. Sporting billowing sleeves, the dress fell into a skirt that to tickled the floor.
As stated on the van Herpen website above, the dress Anne Hathaway wore relies on “the intricate composition of the human body, mirrored with the fibrous marine ecology of our oceans.”
Sounds great to us!
