Fashion happenings fall into our radar this week: Amsterdam International Fashion Week got off to a flying start with Iris van Herpen wowing audiences again, this time with her crystallized creations. Antoine Peters decides to fuse fashion with music and in Paris, Jan Taminiau dazzles during Haute Couture Week. In other news, we present a design collection that takes copper plating to new extremes and we see how Amsterdam's premier burger chain, Burgermeester adopts a literal design philosophy as a way to communicate its ethos.