“The Phantom Syntopia Collector’s Edition is Rolls-Royce’s most outstanding Phantom Bespoke advanced customization model. With its unique characteristics, the car highlights Rolls-Royce’s status as a top luxury brand. Based on Rolls-Royce Les's two decades of dedicated collaboration with world-renowned design studios, artists, watchmakers and jewelers, the Phantom Syntopia Collector's Edition consolidates Phantom's luxury status as the perfect 'blank canvas' for Bespoke haute couture. Designed by architect and haute couture designer Iris van Herpen, Rolls-Royce once again pushes the boundaries of innovation, craftsmanship and haute couture, demonstrating infinite possibilities. The significance of the Phantom Syntopia Collection lies not only in the car itself, but also in the entire luxury industry. . ”
——Torsten Muller-Utterfuss, Chief Executive Officer, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars
“For this special collaboration, I was inspired by the 'woven water pattern'. 'Inspired by the concept, I want to use the most advanced technology to create an immersive and flowing experience in the Phantom car, so that people can feel the magical power of nature and the interior of the car. The endlessly changing three-dimensional waves complement each other, highlighting the uncanny craftsmanship of nature.
When I met with Rolls-Royce’s Bespoke advanced customization department, I found that Rolls-Royce is very similar to high-end fashion. Likewise, every piece of clothing I design is unique to the customer's personal measurements. Similarly, Rolls-Royce customers are invited to Goodwood to participate in the design and craftsmanship of the vehicle. clients also come to the Amsterdam studio for fittings. In many ways, our collaboration is a natural fit.”
Designer Iris van Herpen
Law. The Collector's Edition of Slys Phantom Syntopia has recently been released. The Phantom Syntopia Collection is jointly created by Rolls-Royce and the famous Dutch fashion designer and haute couture designer Iris van Herpen. This exquisite and elegant car masterpiece is inspired by haute couture. This collector's edition model is based on the Rolls-Royce Phantom Long Wheelbase, which can be described as an excellent "canvas" for customers to express their personality. It is also the most complex model in the history of Rolls-Royce Bespoke Advanced Customization. After four years of continuous research and development, this extraordinary and unique creative masterpiece has been completed and will soon become the private collection of Rolls-Royce’s discerning customers.
The name of this collector's edition model - "Syntopia" comes from the landmark fashion series launched by Iris van Herpen in 2018. This series is designed based on the principles of bionics, using patterns and shapes in nature as artistic inspiration, and uses a series of dynamic sculpture designs. Similarly, the Phantom Syntopia Collector’s Edition also strives to show the mysterious and ethereal beauty of fluid movement in solid materials through the theme of “weaving water patterns”.
“From the beginning, the collaboration between the two parties has been a collision of creativity and talent. Both creators of luxury products share the innovative vision and ambition to push the boundaries of luxury design. The two parties work together to further explore the Phantom as a The potential for great personalization and customization. The Phantom Syntopia Collection pushes Rolls-Royce interior design into a new dimension with its immersive experience and highly sculptural design elements. Its perfect engineering skills once again interpret nature. The elusive and subtle beauty of form”
——Gavin Hartley, head of Rolls-Royce Bespoke Advanced Customization Design
Exclusive exterior: iridescent paint
To create a stunning, gleaming appearance, Rolls-Royce Bespoke has developed a unique Liquid Noir paint. The paint shimmers in the sunlight, and when viewed from different angles, the background colors appear purple, blue, purple-red and gold. To achieve this effect, Rolls-Royce tops the deepest black paint with a coating containing mirror pigments, which have color-shifting properties. To achieve the shimmering effect, the team developed a new technique that uses pigments in clear coats.
This process took more than 3,000 hours of testing and validation and took several months to build.
If you look closely, you can see a "woven water pattern" pattern on the hood of the car. A "woven water pattern" pattern created by re-adjustment of the paint during the spray-painting process runs throughout the interior.
Interior Package: Three-Dimensional Art
The interior package of the Phantom Syntopia Collector’s Edition perfectly combines the expertise of Rolls-Royce’s Bespoke advanced customization department and the expertise of Iris van Herpen. Features designed together through creative and technical exchanges. Some of the interior elements are handcrafted in the House of Rolls-Royce by top Rolls-Royce craftsmen alongside members of Iris van Herpen’s team, while other elements, such as the Iris van Herpen-designed high-end Couture pieces, created in her Amsterdam studio.
Open the door lightly, and your eyes immediately focus on the "woven water pattern" starlight canopy. This is also the most technically complex version of Rolls-Royce's iconic starlight canopy ever. The entire piece of leather is selected from more than a thousand pieces of leather and cut precisely and symmetrically. Under the leather, the unique design of Iris van Herpen's "Embossed Sounds" clothing series is adopted, and the silver "flowing metal" texture made of nylon fabric gives the starlight canopy a three-dimensional vision. Iris van Herpen's advanced customization team traveled to Goodwood and spent nearly 300 hours weaving 162 petals made of glass organza on the starlight canopy, with 995 dazzling optical fibers Among the "stars", 187 are manually positioned around this art treasure. They shine in sequence from back to front, showing sparkling movement. The starlight canopy alone took more than 700 hours to create.
The "woven water pattern" theme of the Phantom Syntopia Collector's Edition also runs through the "Art Treasures" gallery in the dashboard, which perfectly combines traditional couture techniques with innovative visual forms. The "Art Collection" gallery includes 85 petals that were also created by Iris van Herpen's team in nearly 60 hours. The artistic effect presented is breathtaking.
The car's picnic table and the passenger panel under the "Art Treasures" gallery continue the "woven water pattern" pattern design on the hood, by combining multiple layers of paint and multiple layers of glass with different particle contents. Lacquer achieved. First, black paint with a glass particle content of 0.9 is used, and then the craftsman uses varnish with 1.4 glitter powder to depict the "woven water pattern" pattern. The precise and meticulous process took more than three weeks. Prior to that, the exterior design center spent four months and nine tests to achieve the perfect paint ratio, and finally achieved an excellent ratio of glass particles to the entire vehicle. Precise control of dosage.
A new chapter in fabric innovation
The Phantom Syntopia Collector’s Edition continues Rolls-Royce’s Bespoke advanced customization department’s exploration of fabric materials. To pay tribute to Rolls-Royce's long history, the Phantom Syntopia Collector's Edition driver's seat is trimmed with vintage wear-resistant leather, while the rear compartment is made of luxurious fabrics. The front seats are made of Magic Gray leather, which has a unique graceful luster. The rear seats are made of a special silk-blend fabric and decorated with a unique pattern, like the reflection in the water in the dark night.
The car seat is quilted with a "woven water pattern" pattern, which is inspired by the tufting technology used in high-end furniture, that is, weaving is sewn on the back of the fabric, which is full of three-dimensional tactility and has a smooth surface. Sewing, done in one go.
Jonathan Sims, General Manager of Rolls-Royce’s Bespoke Advanced Customization Division, said: “After four years of unremitting development, the Phantom Syntopia Collector’s Edition demonstrates the excellence of the Rolls-Royce Bespoke Advanced Customization team. Skill, talent, passion for the application of materials and a spirit of perfection. Rolls-Royce engineers and craftsmen push the boundaries in the pursuit of perfection to realize the vision of the customer. The Phantom Syntopia Collection is a masterpiece. The most complex bespoke car Slys has ever produced, the innovative collaboration with the outstanding team at Iris van Herpen Studio is unforgettable.
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Immersive experience: sensory access, physical and mental enjoyment
The creativity of the Phantom Syntopia Collector’s Edition is outstanding. It is also the first Rolls-Royce model to adopt Bespoke advanced custom fragrance. , a luxurious experience that infiltrates the five senses. This customized fragrance is created by professional perfumers within Rolls-Royce, nicknamed "the nose of the Haute Couture Department", and customers. It is timeless, profound, delicate and warm, and harmoniously complements the smell of the materials in the car.
Rolls-Royce's Bespoke advanced customization fragrance experts tested a variety of combinations and finally determined this perfect ratio. The fragrance uses cedar as the core fragrance. The ultimate pursuit of personalized customization prompted Rolls-Royce. Slice exclusively selected cedar from the client's homeland. The base combines fluid-extracted iris powder with a touch of leather, blended with Patagonian rose and soft lemon.
The Phantom Syntopia Collection's headrests are installed inside. A specially developed fragrance dispersing device, this patented technology uses innovative materials originally used in the medical field to ensure that the fragrance is released in an appropriate dose, delicate and long-lasting, and has a long lasting flavor. The development of this technology took more than two years and has been tested in extremely cold and hot environments. Strict testing ensures that the unique style of the fragrance will not lose its style under any circumstances.
The perfect combination of top luxury and high-end fashion
In order to create a true high-end fashion experience, Iris. ·Van Herpen designed a unique high-end costume for this car customer. The sculptural design language of the skirt cleverly echoes the "woven water pattern" theme of the Phantom Syntopia Collector's Edition Starlight Canopy, with "flowing metal" texture and glass Europe. The petals of root yarn, laser-cut and hand-sewn patterns create a shimmering effect. This exquisite and elegant garment uses the latest couture techniques developed by Iris van Herpen. The multiple steps of embroidery, fitting and tailoring are expected to take about six months.
The Phantom Syntopia collection will be delivered to the customer's private collection. The Phantom Syntopia Collector's Edition is exclusive and cannot be copied.
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