Phoenix Art Museum recalls when paper ruled pop fashion

(Left to right) Misty Modes, ‘Daisy Mae’ shift, 1960s. Printed Du Pont Reemay spunbonded polyester. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, promised gift of Kelly Ellman. James Sterling Paper Fashions, dress, 1960s. Printed Du Pont Reemay spunbonded polyester. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, promised gift of Kelly Ellman. Image © Phoenix Art Museum.
(Left to right) Misty Modes, ‘Daisy Mae’ shift, 1960s. Printed Du Pont Reemay spunbonded polyester. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, promised gift of Kelly Ellman. James Sterling Paper Fashions, dress, 1960s. Printed Du Pont Reemay spunbonded polyester. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, promised gift of Kelly Ellman. Image © Phoenix Art Museum.
(Left to right) Misty Modes, ‘Daisy Mae’ shift, 1960s. Printed Du Pont Reemay spunbonded polyester. From the collection of the Phoenix Art Museum, promised gift of Kelly Ellman. James Sterling Paper Fashions, dress, 1960s. Printed Du Pont Reemay spunbonded polyester. From the collection of Phoenix Art Museum, promised gift of Kelly Ellman. Image © Phoenix Art Museum.

PHOENIX  – Arizona audiences can explore paper garments from one of fashion’s most experimental and whimsical eras in Generation Paper: Fast Fashion of the 1960s at Phoenix Art Museum. Featuring work from 1966 through 1968 by designers and manufacturers such as Mars of Asheville, Scott Paper Company, The Disposables, Sterling Paper Fashions, Hallmark Inc., and others, the exhibition showcases more than 80 garments and accessories, including dresses, bikinis, skirts, hats, jumpsuits, rompers, beach cover-ups and accessories made from paper, plastic, laminate and other nonwoven textiles. Generation Paper is on through July 17 in the Museum’s Ellman and Harnett galleries and highlights a special component of the Museum’s fashion-design collection.

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