Origami Dress

Simple tutorial on how to fold an origami dress

Before Christmas we were encouraged to work with paper to create collage ad sculpture as an alternative way of drawing and capturing the qualities of our collections. I find paper a highly diverse and interesting media to work with and the intricate work of paper artists always fascinates me. This new interest in paper combined with my trip to Japan gave me greater awareness of the craft of Origami. Origami is certainly a transformation, a metamorphosis. At first I really wanted to work with…

Origami

OBVIOUSLY CUTE: ORIGAMI DRESS

{Written by Amber} For those of you who are interested, here’s a tutorial for the origami dresses I made awhile back. Start with a regular piece of origami paper (if you don’t have orig…

Talk about a head turning little white dress! These stunning creations were put together for a thesis project by Uruguay-based designers, Mercedes Arocena and Lucia Benitez, and I’m going to go ahead and guess that they

Toyo Ito - In the beginning of this projects we made replicas of 18:th century dresses. We then reinvented these dresses with inspiration from a comtenporary architect, in my case Toyo Ito. In doing t...