Brazilian Art Museum - FAAP held from October 12th, the exhibition “PAPIERS A LA MODE”, by Isabelle de Borchgrave and Rita Brown. The exhibition includes costumes, ornaments, shoes, hats, handbags and shawls, made only of paper, in real size.

Idealized in 1994, by Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave, in partnership with a Canadian designer of costumes for opera, the show is a history of fashion over the past 400 years. Expert in various technical procedures and after joining, pleating, kneading, folding, pasting, dyeing and painting, the artist transform plains into volumes and sheets of paper into dresses. Moreover, she is knowledgeable of textiles and through resources ranging from dyeing to collage, she is able to give the paper the various textures and consistencies that require the whims of fashion.

Isabelle de Borchgrave studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and at the Center for Decorative Arts in Brussels. For thirty years she has devoted herself to the arts, with special predilection for the paper as a support. Her devotion to the material, as well as her experience, turned her authority on the subject.

Currently, she lives and works in Brussels, where she has an atelier devoted to projects with paper.

In 1998, for the first time, the models were exhibited at the Museum of Printed Textiles (Musée de l'Impression sur Étoffes), in Mulhouse, France, under the title of PAPIERs À LA MODE. Since then, the exhibition comes at the world. It was exposed at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (1999), the Institute of Fashion Technology, New York, at Hôtel Braquenié, Paris (2000), the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2001), the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (2002), several museums in Japan (2002), the National Museum of Fashion, Antwerp (2004), in Saberk Hanim Museum, Istanbul (2005) and in Luxembourg (2006).