Swan in strawberries on black Whale This hand-stitched paper dress is

This hand-stitched paper dress is based on a green wool mohair sheath made by Charles James in 1952-1953 as a sample for New York ready-to-wear manufacturer Samuel Winston

By the 1920s they had stores in Nice

by artists who had never seen the real thing

This darling little pinup dress is made from Nepalese lokta paper in a copper Tibetan lotus print on a wine background

Swan in strawberries on black Whale This hand-stitched paper dress isThis swan is based on an illustration of Der Schwan from Johann Daniel Meyers 1748 book Angenehmer Und Ntzlicher Zeit Vertreib Mit Betrachtung Curioser Vorstellungen Allerhand Kriechender, Fliegender Und Schwimmender, Auf Dem Land Und Im Wasser Sich Befindender Und Nhrender Thiere. In English, thats A pleasant and useful pastime, with the contemplation of curious ideas about all sorts of crawling, flying, and swimming animals, living and feeding on