Eco-Couture by Gary Harvey

Fashion designers, eco-conscious Gary Harvey designed these stylish environmentally friendly dresses.



Newspaper Dress: 30 copies of the ‘Financial Times’ folded and attached to a salmon pink corset to create a ‘tulle’ skirt.



“Newspapers are one of the few products that get recycled. Currently too much information is printed on paper that does not get read or recycled”.



Denim Dress: 42 pairs of Levi 501’s in various shades of indigo, cut up and reconstructed to create a tiered ball gown with a corset waist, worn with a cropped denim jacket.

“Jeans are one of the most hard-wearing garments, originally designed as a work uniform and made in a fabric designed to last years. Since the transition from ‘work-wear’ to fashion, jeans are often discarded for the latest silhouette before the end of their useful life”.



Mac Dress: 18 Trench Coats in various shades of beige attached to a ‘Burberry’ check corset, worn with a cropped ‘Burberry’ Mac.

“The classic trench coat designed to last for many years”.



Military Dress: 21 Army Jackets in various shades of green and camouflage, reconstructed into a “fishtail” cocktail dress.



Dress made of old wedding dresses



Laundry Bag Dress: Made out of 21 laundry bags.

Baseball Puffball Dress: Made out of 26 nylon baseball jackets. Sports uniforms were originally designed to be hi-tech long lasting uniforms, now they are non-biodegradable and are often discarded at the end of the season.



Dress made of old rugby shirt and Hawaiian shirts

Check his website: www.garyharveycreative.com

Hat Art by Sorensen Grundy Milliners

Dan Sorensen and Sara Grundy of London-based Sorensen Grundy Milliners created these whimsical half-made hats.



This hat is called "Construction Overhead", featuring miniature men making a Victorian top hat.



"The impulse behind making the hat was based on a combination of factors. There has always been a tradition in millinery to make miniature versions of traditional hat shapes such as the Victorian mini top hat and as a company we have tended to play with scale quite often making mini trilbies, berets, top hats and other classic shapes. We wanted to take this further by playing with the idea of scale for this piece."



"As we both have children we are constantly immersed in stories and films about miniature worlds, such as Arrietty, The Borrowers and Gulliver's Travels. Revisiting and appreciating these stories as adults has probably encouraged a desire to create something whimsical."

"Model millinery involves a hat being completely hand made and often there is a huge amount of hand sewing involved. Because it's such hard work and takes such a long time we have often daydreamed about having the help of a miniature workforce or leaving something half finished that get's magically completed overnight. We trained together in a millinery workroom making hats for Paris and London fashion shows and know what it feels like to be working away behind the scenes and through the night."

"We like to think that there is humour to our work and as well as wanting to make something that is amusing we also wanted to stretch the definitions of what millinery can be. 'Construction Overhead' is an imagined scenario, a hat capturing a moment in a fantasy narrative which hopefully offers more than just something to be worn on the head."



This one is called "Nesting Instinct," shows a straw hat constructed by birds.



"Echoing scenes from the 1950 Cinderella animation, birds are doing the work. Each bird is using its nest building skills to weave the strands of straw into a hat shape. Their collaborative effort shows the final stages of production whilst at the same time displaying how a handmade straw hat is actually sewn together using a long strip of straw ribbon."











Check her website: http://www.sorensengrundy.co.uk/

Bizarre Shoes by Kermit Tesoro

Filipino designer Kermit Tesoro designed these bizarre heel-less high platform shoes.



"I'm always torn between several disciplines. My design sensibility is always inclined beyond my references, so I guess it's fun to be curious."



“I want to translate people’s deviations into my own creations. It’s like a fashion interpretation of the biological or psychological deviation of a person. I’ve always been driven to create clothing articles based on inner conflicts or the inability to control one’s inner impulses or failure to structure one’s behavior in an orderly way.”













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Cut-Out Fashion Illustrations by Shamekh Al-Bluwi

Jordan-based architect and fashion illustrator Shamekh Al-Bluwi creates a series of beautiful fashion illustrations using cut outs to incorporate the sights of the city into the clothing and accessories on paper.











Check his instagram: https://instagram.com/shamekhbluwi/

Newspaper Wardrobes by Eye Management

Photographer Amy M. Phillips and Fairlight Hubbard, the founders of Nashville talent agency Eye Management, designed a series of vintage-inspired garments made completely from newspaper called 'Extra, Extra Paper Doll', modeled by Emily O'Daniel.

















Check the website: www.eyemgmt.com/

Crayola Crayon Dresses

For its spring 2015 campaign, Bloomingdale’s recruited seven designers to create exclusive pieces that were constructed by Crayola colors. The pieces are currently on display at the 59th Street Bloomingdale’s location in New York City

Paper Dresses by Matthew Brodie

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