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The Rolls-Royce Phantom Syntopia Is Haute Couture Inspired One-Off
English luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce teamed up with Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen to reveal the one-off Phantom Syntopia. The Rolls-Royce Phantom Syntopia blends haute couture and luxury cars and elevates them to
English luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce has teamed up with Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen to reveal the one-off Phantom Syntopia. The Rolls-Royce Phantom Syntopia blends haute couture and luxury cars and elevates them to a whole new level.
The Rolls-Royce Phantom Syntopia is based on the extended wheelbase version of the Phantom, which the English luxury marque calls the ultimate blank canvas for bespoke personalisation.
So just what is it that makes the Phantom Syntopia so special? Well, this one-off hand-built luxury land barge sports quite a few bespoke options that make this perhaps the most iconic version of the new Phantom Series II.
From the outside, the most eye-catching feature of the Phantom Syntopia is its stunning shimmering paint job. Developed by Rolls-Royce Bespoke Collective, this one-off Liquid Noir paint job reveals iridescent Purple, magenta, Blue and Gold undertones.
This is done thanks to a mirror-like pigment, selected for its colour-shifting properties that has been overlaid over the solid-black paint. The bonnet of the car features a subtle rendering of the Weaving Water motif that can also be seen on the interior of the luxury limo.
The interior takes you to a whole new level of luxury. While some of the interior elements were handcrafted by Rolls-Royce's leading craftspeople and van Herpen's team at the firm's home at Goodwood. Other parts were created in Iris van Herpen's Amsterdam atelier where she designs and crafts her Haute Couture garments.
The most stunning of these creations is the bespoke Weaving Water Starlight headliner which took around 700 hours of work. Crafted using a single sheet of leather and it features precise hand-cut sections that reveal a silver 'liquid metal' texture made from woven nylon fabric that gives it a 3-D look.
The headliner has been finished using 162 petals made of glass organza a process that took around 300 hours to finish. Out of the 995 fibreoptic stars seen on the headliner, 187 were individually placed by hand alongside the artwork. These stars illuminate sequentially, starting from the rear and moving to the front to create a feeling of movement.
The other major feature where this 'Weaving Water' theme is really highlighted includes the Gallery artwork, which features 85 of these glass organza petals and the picnic tables where the motif was achieved by combining multiple coats of paint and lacquer containing different quantities of glass particles.
Speaking about her one-off creation with Rolls-Royce, Iris van Herpen said, "For this special collaboration I was inspired by the concept of 'Weaving Water' and transformed the sense of being in movement into an immersive experience of fluidity inside the Phantom. I wanted this to become a state-of-the-art experience being overwhelmed by the forces of nature. The powerful movement of the Phantom is woven into the shifting three-dimensional waves inside the car to embody the ingenuity of nature.
When I met the Bespoke Collective, I discovered that the world of Rolls-Royce is very similar to Haute Couture. Every garment I create is a one-off, tailor-made to my clients' individual measurements, just like every Rolls-Royce. My clients come to our atelier in Amsterdam for fittings, just as Rolls-Royce clients are invited to Goodwood throughout the design and craft process. On many levels, this collaboration was a natural symbiosis."
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The Rolls-Royce Phantom Syntopia takes the luxury car game to a whole another level thanks to a collaboration between the firm and haute couture designer Iris van Hepren. The result is a bespoke Phantom Series II extended wheelbase that would be the pride and joy of its owner.
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