You won’t believe your eyes!  These amazing gowns, representing quintessential examples from costume history, are constructed entirely from paper!

For more than fifteen years, Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave has been crumpling, pleating, braiding, feathering and painting her inspirations from European paintings and costumes in museums. Now, the Legion of Honor in San Francisco is the first American museum to dedicate an entire exhibition to her work. Pulp Fashion: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave opened earlier this month and will run through June 5, 2011.

The six sections of the exhibition walk you through the artist’s creative process and inspiration and show pieces representing famous designers like Worth, Poiret and Chanel as well as an entire section devoted exclusively to Fortuny’s pleated and draped gowns.

And if San Francisco isn’t in your travel plans, a drool-worthy catalog is available from the museum store for $29.95.

It’s a don’t-miss-event for a vintage fashionista!

More information at Legion of Honor.

CREDIT: Pulp Fashion: The Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and sponsored by Lonna Wais. Additional support is provided by Nathalie and Garry McGuire and Elizabeth W. Vobach. Collection Connections is made possible by The Annenberg Foundation. The exhibition catalogue is supported in part by a grant from Friends of Fiber Art International.