Twenty-two Vancouver college students were tasked with reproducing the finest of fashionable dresses with the plainest of materials for the annual Brown Paper Couture exhibit. And I show them nothing by examples and samples," he told Gloria Macarenko, host of Our Vancouver. The challenge is to reproduce an actual haute couture gown, and Eng chose a Shakespeare-inspired dress from Italian designer Valentino's 2016 fall collection. "I blew up the original image to see there are three different kind of feathers," Eng said, "So there are short feathers, medium feathers for the middle part, and longer trailing feathers." To create each feather, she cut a full sheet of tissue paper, layered on five sheets of tissue paper, and used a wire.

Source: CBC News March 25, 2018 19:52 UTC