Rolls-Royce is often characterized as the most luxurious car brand, even if its eternal rival Bentley can also claim this honorable title today. The world of luxury cars and fashion are often closely related, particularly through partnerships to create one or more exceptional models.

One-off models have also become more popular in recent years with manufacturers such as Ferrari, Lamborghini and Bugatti no longer shying away from creating one-off cars that are obviously not for show but are certainly quite obscene.

A unique Rolls-Royce in the world

The model we are interested in today is a unique new model, “one-off”, as we say in the jargon. This is the Rolls-Royce Phantom Syntopia, a model that highlights Haute Couture in collaboration with Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen.

Haute Couture is the process of hand-crafting exclusive and individual high-end clothing designs. High fashion appeared in the middle of the 19th century.^thousand century, when Paris became the center of the world fashion industry.

This car is based on the Phantom Extended, which Rolls-Royce describes as “A clean blank canvas to customize”. Phantom Syntopia needed no less than four years of work, and takes its name from Iris van Herpen’s 2018 collection, which was inspired by patterns and shapes found in nature. Phantom Syntopia follows the same recipe focused on this the beauty of movement.

Nature and its movements in filigree

“For this special collaboration, I was inspired by the concept of ‘Weaving Water’ and transformed the sensation of movement into an immersive experience of fluidity inside the Phantom. I wanted it to be a state-of-the-art experience filled with the forces of nature. The powerful movement of the Phantom is woven into three-dimensional waves inside the car to embody the ingenuity of nature.”– explains fashion designer Iris van Herpen.

This approach is visible in the decoration of the header, which was the most difficult component for the designers. It was made of a single skin. All these symmetrical, impressively precise cutouts are hand-made and give the ceiling paneling a three-dimensional appearance.

The process alone took nearly 300 hours for Iris van Herpen’s team at the Rolls-Royce Goodwood factory. In general, this model is needed more than 700 hours of work.