Origami-inspired Fashion Designs - Part II ~ Ajurette Magablog

Paper dress design: Petra Storrs ; Photo: Rai Royal ; Styling: Justine Josephs

Long before Lady Gaga showed up in Thierry Mugler's starry suits,

Even long before fashion designers add origami touch to their designs. The Coltejer fabric company in Colombia produced a line called "Linea Origami" in 1973. The ads stated. "The Origami line -The Japanese art of folding paper - is designed based on one of those paper models those we folded when we were children. With a stunning variety of patterns of the Origami line you can do anything, from a coat to a toy. In a style from today, very modern, dynamic, joyful... in a "very Coltejer" style.

Catalogue from Coltejer fabric company in Colombia -1973

Back to recent years, precisely in 2008. When Gareth Pugh added an origami element to his Fall 2008 collection.

Gareth Pugh Fall 2008 Collection

Gareth Pugh Fall 2008 details

Designer André Lima presented his Spring 2009 collection inspired by geometrical shapes at the Sao Paulo Fashion Week. Trenddelacreme spotted striking resemblance between these dresses and origami classics.

For Spring/Summer 2010 collection, Marchesa gave a touch of origami technique to their beautiful dresses.

Marchesa SS 2010 Collection

Enter the work of stylist and art director Petra Storrs. Which origami seems to be her main inspiration for these paper outfits. Petra Storrs has created many charming paper props for various photo shoots.

Paper designs: Petra Storrs ; Photos: Rai Royal ; Styling: Justine Josephs

Art & Design research professor, Mauricio Velasquez Posada and his students have created a series of origami dresses. In Feb 2009, this was a student project called "Animorfos" but now it has evolved into "Geomorfos: the body as a metaphor of the geographical". Included here you will find dresses with snapology, kirigami, corrugations, tessellations, Chinese Paper Folding (triangular units), Sonobe units, Enigma Cube, Spikey Star, and more.

Geomorfos by Mauricio Velasquez Posada

For his line "132 5", Issey Miyake invented a foldable dress that can be flattened into 2 dimensional form. To make an intricate clothing pattern like this one, Issey Miyake using a software program, devised by computer scientist Jun Mitani, that generates intricate three-dimensional shapes from a single flat sheet of paper.

It’s this multidisciplinary process that lends the collection its name. The number “1″ refers to the single piece of cloth used to make each item, “3″ to indicate its three-dimensional shape, and “2″ to the fact that it can be flattened two-dimensionally. The single space denotes the time between the completion of the folded form and the moment someone puts it on, while “5″ signifies the concept’s multiple permutations.
132 5. Issey Miyake is set to debut in Japan this fall. (Ecouterre)

Amila Hrustic, Academy of Fine Arts student at the University of Sarajevo, designs origami-inspired dresses made of paper and textiles. The collection itself called "Plato's Collection".