Spiber and Dutch haute couture designer Iris van Herpen unveiled their first-ever collaboration at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week AW2025: a bridal look that symbolizes the beginning of a creative partnership between science and art. This inaugural project reflects both teams’ shared desire to redefine the future of fashion.

Both founded in 2007, Spiber and Iris van Herpen have pursued parallel paths of experimentation. Their collaboration is underpinned by a belief that creativity, technology, and sustainability are not isolated efforts but interconnected elements of a unified vision.

Nature serves as a common source of inspiration. While Van Herpen draws from the intelligence and rhythm of the natural world, working with Spiber offered an opportunity to explore new ways of engaging with materials and the human body through sensorial design.

“Spiber’s approach fuses organic logic with innovation. Their ability to translate technical complexity into something wearable is rare. The lightness and tactile qualities of the material are exactly what I seek—our attention to detail and texture is deeply aligned.”
— Iris van Herpen

“We believe in the expressive power of materials—their capacity to tell stories, evoke emotion, and reshape how we relate to the natural world. Through this first collaboration with Iris van Herpen, our shared values took shape in a remarkable way. The result is not simply clothing, but a creation born from curiosity and intent to question.”
— Kazuhide Sekiyama, Co-founder and Representative Executive Officer, Spiber Inc.

The resulting gown blends structure with fluidity, and technical precision with poetic form. It stands not only as a singular runway moment, but as a statement of future possibilities in material and design.

Both teams see this debut collaboration as a starting point and look forward to further exploring new frontiers in textile innovation and expression.

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