London based fashion, beauty and still-life editorial and advertising photographer Matthew Brodie created these paper dresses for the March 2011 issue of Madame Magazine.
"We really wanted to create something beautiful from a material that doesn’t normally lend itself to being draped and shaped on a living being. It had to be apparent that it was paper, but not because it looked like shit."
"I worked on this project with Hattie Newman who works extensively in paper, and in all we batted 6 paper ideas around and submitted them to Madame Germany who I work with a lot. They came back saying they liked our idea of paper dresses. I have done a little dressmaking in the past, and Hattie is a genius with paper but we knew it was going to be a huge learning curve for us both. We began by thinking of all the properties of paper, what you could do with it - fold, crease, burn, tear it, thick, thin, shiny, matte etc. and from there we broke it down into eight dresses and sketched ideas for each. I'm quite methodical in my work, Hattie is much more organic but it's a mix that works well. We began making prototypes, most of which failed or were just going to be so mammoth a task we would never have time. On day five, after a long week hitting the wall, we sat eating tea and cake, looking at our creations and the idea of stationary dawned on us."
"The biggest challenge was arriving at the idea, seconded by the execution of it. We just ploughed our way through it, you get brain freeze and you just have to keep writing and drawing and making stuff to arrive at the good stuff. The fun is in the reward, the high when it comes together, and the silly outfits you wear around the studio to make each other laugh."
"The idea stemmed in part from a Jum Nakao dress I had seen that looked like a child's playpen with strips hanging from a hoop. I'm a big fan of couture, I'm always impressed by Givenchy and I really love designers such as Gareth Pugh and Hussain Chalayan who push it beyond, yet manage to do it beautifully."
Check his website: http://www.matthewbrodie.com/main.html
Source: mymodernmet
"We really wanted to create something beautiful from a material that doesn’t normally lend itself to being draped and shaped on a living being. It had to be apparent that it was paper, but not because it looked like shit."
"I worked on this project with Hattie Newman who works extensively in paper, and in all we batted 6 paper ideas around and submitted them to Madame Germany who I work with a lot. They came back saying they liked our idea of paper dresses. I have done a little dressmaking in the past, and Hattie is a genius with paper but we knew it was going to be a huge learning curve for us both. We began by thinking of all the properties of paper, what you could do with it - fold, crease, burn, tear it, thick, thin, shiny, matte etc. and from there we broke it down into eight dresses and sketched ideas for each. I'm quite methodical in my work, Hattie is much more organic but it's a mix that works well. We began making prototypes, most of which failed or were just going to be so mammoth a task we would never have time. On day five, after a long week hitting the wall, we sat eating tea and cake, looking at our creations and the idea of stationary dawned on us."
"The biggest challenge was arriving at the idea, seconded by the execution of it. We just ploughed our way through it, you get brain freeze and you just have to keep writing and drawing and making stuff to arrive at the good stuff. The fun is in the reward, the high when it comes together, and the silly outfits you wear around the studio to make each other laugh."
"The idea stemmed in part from a Jum Nakao dress I had seen that looked like a child's playpen with strips hanging from a hoop. I'm a big fan of couture, I'm always impressed by Givenchy and I really love designers such as Gareth Pugh and Hussain Chalayan who push it beyond, yet manage to do it beautifully."
Check his website: http://www.matthewbrodie.com/main.html
Source: mymodernmet
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