About
Jack Irving is an artist and designer originally from Blackpool and now runs his own design studio in East London.
Jack’s futuristic vision fuses the worlds of fantasy and experimental design. He is heavily inspired by deep sea life and nature, often experimenting with the concept of shape, silhouette and transformation.
Jack's obsession with innovation allows him to create fashion forward concepts and shapes which can transform in-front of the viewers eyes, transporting the viewer to another dimension and fantasy, bringing this fantasy alive into everyday life.
Jack creates collections of wearable art, creating his own cosmic worlds of his hyper-reality. Over recent years Jack has expanded his designs away from the body and into immersive installation experiences.
Jack is most known for his work with Lady Gaga who has worn many of his pieces, the most famous of these is the Sea Urchin Showgirl inflatable dress that she wore on the finale night of her artRAVE:The Artpop Ball World Tour in Paris. This dress generated a huge amount of press and memes of this dress have been shared online over 15 million times and a video of Lady Gaga inflating her dress in front of the paparazzi has been viewed on youtube 11 million times.
Jack has showcased a live installation of his inflatable wearable sculptures at the V&A museum London. Jack has also showcased his last 4 collections of wearable art at London Fashion Week, the most recent being February 2022. His work has been featured in British and American Vogue, Dazed, Wonderland, Elle, New York Times and Daily Mail to name a few and also featured on ‘The Ellen Show’ in the US.
Most recently Lady Gaga featured her collaboration with Jack in American Vogue as one of her top 20 most iconic looks of all time.
He also won 4 major awards at the World of Wearable Art Awards in New Zealand including the Cirque Du Soleil artisan award for innovation in costume design. Jack will be launching his first big public art installation in December 2022 as part of the iconic Blackpool Illuminations.
Jacks has designed and created costumes for the Doja Cat VMA performance, Paris Hilton, Cheryl and also worked on costumes for Spice Girls - Spiceworld Tour. He also has his own episode on Heidi Klum’s Germany’s Next Top Model featuring his wearable art.
Jacks’ first interior design collaboration is with the W Hotel Leicester Square, where he designed an interactive decorative pillow for all 300 rooms of the hotel. He also designed their Xmas tree which featured in London’s top 10 best trees in Elle Decoration.
Jack Irving’s mission is to engulf the world in a fantastical spectacle, incorporating all elements of theatricality with a love for colliding technology and innovation with live performance.