I saw this fascinating exhibition the other day in Bellerive Museum, Paper Fashion:
I love paper and have worked with it for years so it was very interesting to see clothes made entirely of paper by young virtuosos and well known designers:
Stephen Hann recycles couture in his “comic fan” creation below:
This jacket took newspapers to another dimension:
This is PAPER people!
In an ad from 1960s, the International Paper Company is asking how long will the paper bikinis last…
Fancypants anyone?
Paper clothes were used for PR purposes, to spread news, or to promote politicians and their campaign. Here you see Nixon’s and Eugene McCarthy:
Robert Kennedy and Romney (the father of the 2009 presidential candidate, Mitt Romney):
“In 1966, Scott Paper Company invented the paper dress, intended as a marketing and publicity tool. For one dollar, women could buy the dress and also receive coupons for Scott paper products.”
A brief fad for paper dresses swept through America from 1966 to 1969. The ultimate gift to the lazy, adventurous youth!
There is a 40 year difference between the dress on the left (in blue) and the one made for the exhibition (in orange):
I was blown away by these intricately cut and folded hairpieces for Chanel by Japanese hair stylist Katsuya Kamo. He used 2 packs of plain white 11×17 copier paper!
Another creative genius of the show was Jum Nakao, the Brazilian Japanese designer. His “Sewing the Invisible” show was on the display and I couldn’t take my eyes off the monitor! I spent a long time on his great site. It is a spellbinding collection of paper Haute Couture:
Just noticed that both above wizards are Japanese: Master Origami makers!
Here is a little explanation for the word sartorial; let’s see if you can guess who is the sartorial queen of all times to me from the picture below:
That’s all folks! See Isabelle de Borchgrave’s magnificent creations here.
Take a look at Jum Nakao’s defilé here.
Chanel’s fabulous whites here.
To see a way better alternative to paper go here.