Jack Irving is an artist originally from Blackpool (UK) 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 forward thinking 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, sculpture and installations, 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 millions of times and a video of Lady Gaga inflating her dress in front of the paparazzi has been viewed on youtube and TikTok over 30 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.
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.
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 has featured on several episodes of Heidi Klum’s Germany’s Next Top Model and also creative directed his own segment for the 2024 finale.
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 has also designed a Xmas tree’s for W Hotel London as well advertising agency Mother London HQ. He has also designed a large scale inflatable sculpture for the Mondrian Hotel London.
Jack launched his large scale public art installation ‘Odyssey’ in 2023 which is part of the iconic Blackpool Illuminations. The piece is an immersive 15 minute light and sound spectacle featuring six 11 meter tall light alien light sculptures which runs nightly for 3 months of the year.
Jack most recently designed for Katy Perrys VMAs Video Vangaurd performance as well as well as completing an designer residency at Cirque Du Soleil in Montreal.
Jack Irving’s mission is to engulf the world in a fantastical spectacle, incorporating all elements of theatricality with a love for colliding technology with nature and futurism!