PAPER DRESSES — mphdesign

MPH Design produced this eye-catching series of paper dresses in 1999 as the new millennium’s version of the iconic 1960s disposable paper dress. Made of durable, non-tear Tyvek fabric, the dresses were printed with bold imagery reflecting an optimistic but uncharted time as the Western world unabashedly plowed forth into the second millennium. The dresses toured the world in the exhibition Rrripp! Paper Fashion and were sold worldwide.

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