A couple of news stories from the UK describe fashion designer Christina McIntosh using Tyvek® to create a wedding dress.
You can
view a video of the design, creation and modeling of the Tyvek® dress. STV.tv says:
A paper wedding dress designed by a student at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen is to dawn the catwalk at a prestigious bridal awards ceremony.
Christina McIntosh's eco-friendly design has been shortlisted in the 2009 Bridal Buyer Awards.
The event is regarded as Europe's top bridal awards ceremony.
According to the March 3, 2009 story in The Press and Journal (Aberdeen, Scotland, UK) titled
"Eye-catching wedding dresses make the cut":
Students at an Aberdeen art school have reached the final of a top bridal fashion award.
Christina McIntosh and Magdalena Zareba, both fashion students at Gray’s School of Art, have been shortlisted for this year’s Bridal Buyer awards for their wedding dress designs, including one which looks like it has been made from paper.
Miss McIntosh, 20, from Aberdeen, designed her paper-style dress to promote eco-friendly fashion. She used a material, Tyvek, which is more durable but just as recyclable as paper. She said: “I am thrilled to have been shortlisted and to have such a high-profile platform on which to promote eco-friendly fashion.”
The stories refer to Tyvek® as paper. Of course, Tyvek® is not exactly paper, though we often hear it referred to as
Tyvek® paper, particularly hard Tyvek® styles. Tyvek® does have a paper-like texture. But it certainly would make a more durable wedding dress than paper, and would be much easier to sew. In addition to paper-like Tyvek, there are also several fabric-like Tyvek styles available. These have a softer hand, excellent drapeability, and soften like leather over time. Fabric-like styles of Tyvek are also very easy to dye using RIT dye. The more paper-like styles take acrylic paint with ease, and acrylic paint seems to accentuate the interesting patterns of the Tyvek fibers.
So if you are a designer looking for innovative materials, or you are getting married and want to make your own Tyvek® wedding dress, give us a call to request a Tyvek sample packet so you can see and feel all the differnt Tyvek styles available from Material Concepts.
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Labels: Tyvek, Tyvek Fashion, Tyvek Uses
Tyvek® is now being used in high fashion. A new collection of bags called Papier, which is French for paper, designed by Stefan Diez for his wife Saskia Diez, a jewelery designer. The are made from Tyvek® material, most likely what we call hard structure Tyvek®, which many call Tyvek® paper.jewelry. As such “Papier”, the new collection of cases, is a typical product of the Munich-based label. They were designed by Stefan Diez for Saskia Diez. The different-size traveling bags are made of Tyvek, a synthetic paper that is extremely light but at the same time extremely robust. The project is noteworthy in many respects, not only on account of the material’s enormous durability, but also because of the high-end finish given to what is actually a banal material. A silk-screen printing technique gives the material a particularly attractive look. A totally different aspect of the series is also remarkable: Classic traveling bags are for the most part made of leather; the use of paper here represents a shift in typology, which reflects a new definition of the traditional idea of luxury. Like all designs by Saskia Diez the “Papier” bag collection has a striking label: A sterling silver flake with an engraved diamond.
