Paper shark Dress
$ 225.00
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MPH design by Sarah Caplan. Produced series printed Tyvek dress. 1999. a take on 1960's paper dress. Rare. In private collections and museums.
"I produced this eye-catching series of paper dresses in 1999 as the millennium's answer to the 1960s disposable paper dress. Sold in stores worldwide and accepted into several museum and private collections, the dresses toured the world in the exhibition" -Sarah Caplan
The dresses are in the following museum collections:
• FIDM, Los Angeles
• The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Fashion Resource Center, Chicago
• Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
This dress toured the world in an exhibition Rrripp! Paper Fashion.
https://www2.oberlin.edu/alummag/oamcurrent/oam_spring01/body_art.html
https://www.beyondretro.com/blogs/news/a-brief-history-of-the-paper-dress
https://mphdesign.net/PAPER-DRESSES
tag reads size small
snap closure at shoulders
bust 34
waist 38
hips 42
length 35
