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Iris van Herpen’s Shift Souls Dress, designed in 2019 with a laser-cut Japanese textile, silk organza, and Mylar. A new exhibition in Brooklyn showcases 140 garments by the Dutch designer Iris van Herpen, whose work blurs the line between fashion and sculpture By Patricia Mears Fashion has long been a cultural barometer. It’s also been disparaged as a frivolous bagatelle. Around 30 years ago, however, that dichotomy disappeared when fashion emerged as a global phenomenon, exploding beyond the...