Karin's Style Blog

I can’t believe it’s not fabric!

I’m a sucker for botanical drawings so it was easy to be intrigued by the Flora Danica paper dress by designer Annette Meyer in collaboration with Royal Copenhagen. The dress is made out of paper with prints of Flora Danica services flowers and golden board.
In order to make the paper suitable for clothing so-called “crumble parties” took place where several workers from Royal Copenhagen rubbed the necessary 200 meters of paper between their fingers. The Flora Danica Dress is on show 2/4 - 8/5- 2005 at Malmö Konstmuseum.

I found these presscuttings of Meyer’s work really inspiring:

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