White Paper

White paper is a simple, clean medium that can be transformed into a thing of beauty. Unfortunately it is often just seen as a functional component of the corporate world. Karl Lagerfeld saw its beauty, his 2009 Spring/Summer haute couture show for Chanel was inspired by "white paper, the ultimate luxury".

The show featured a paper installation, made up of 7000 handmade paper flowers, created by using 4000 square metres of paper, which took a total of 4800 hours of work to assemble. Wowsers!


But why stop there, I am sure Karl was thinking. Even the models wore exquisite headpieces made of paper flower!


Another person utilising white paper is artist Peter Callesen, transforming 2D blank pieces of A4 paper into 3D sculptures.


I hope you all found that as inspirational as I did! I now have an overwhelming urge to make some origami.. out of white paper of course!

xx Love Swah