Monday
May052014

FashionTech Couture

Anouk Wipprecht Spider Dress
Anouk Wipprecht Spider Dress
Anouk Wipprecht Spider Dress Anouk Wipprecht Spider Dress
Anouk Wipprecht Spider Dress
Anouk Wipprecht Dare Droid Cocktail Dress
Anouk Wipprecht Dare Droid Cocktail Dress
Anouk Wipprecht Dare Droid Cocktail Dress
Anouk Wipprecht Smoke Dress Anouk Wipprecht Portrait

Anouk Wipprecht is a Dutch Fashion-Tech Designer who is currently an Artist in Residence at AutoDesk. She is known for her couture, one-of-a-kind conceptual dresses featuring kinetic and interactive components. As an artist, she has managed to move seamlessly between commercial commissions, and the art establishment — working with clients like Volkswagen, The Black-Eyed Peas and Cirque Du Soleil; as well as exhibiting at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam and MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.

With a talent for team building and collaboration, in projects shown here Anouk worked together with Technologist, Daniel Schatzmayr on her Spider Dress; in collaboration with Engineer, Marius Kintel and Sculptor, Jane Tingley on Dare Droid 2.0 Cocktail Dress, and with Technologist, Aduen Darriba, on her Smoke Dress (other variations of the Smoke Dress have been created, including one in collaboration with Niccolo Casas, whom Anouk has also collaborated with on other works including those for VW and Cirque Du Soleil).

Work shown here features the photography of Anna Červinková, Spider Dress; Jean-Sébastien Senécal, Dare Droid 2.0 Cocktail Dress; and Robert Lunak, Smoke Dress, as well as Anouk’s portrait photograph above.

To learn more about Anouk’s process and past projects, watch the Anouk Wipprecht YouTube channel. If you would like to keep up with her current projects, it is best to follow Anouk Wipprecht on Facebook, where she openly shares much of her work in progress. In recent weeks she has been putting together components for a Tesla Coil dress — check Anouk’s Facebook updates regularly to see the progress unfold.

GigantiCo by Chris Grayson