Saturday, 6 December 2014

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On a Wednesday morning returning to work from a lovely long weekend away in Melbourne with the Mr Shep I had the opportunity to attend a special breakfast held by Enex100 in the city (before heading back to the office to catch up on those 100s of emails I had waiting for me).  This breakfast was to celebrate Sculpting Style by Zoe Bradley.


I had the absolute honour of seeing the largest paper couture dress to ever hit Australia.  This amazing dress is 6 meters long and 6 meters tall (even taller than me!!).  The dress is made from 1,700 hand crafted Sukura Flowers (Cheery Blossom).  Amazingly the dress was created by only a team of 8 who had to do a crazy 79,000 folds. During an interview with Zoe at the breakfast she joked that she hired people based on their hand size, "small hands and fingers, hmm, your hired".  I thought now that would be an interesting interview question, "now on to the hand measuring section of the interview".  


Each flower was hand crafted by the team of 8 back in London and then individually packed and shipped over to sunny Perth.  Upon arrival in Perth each flower had to by placed by hand to create the masterpiece which is the dress.

Sculpting Stlye by Zoe Bradley


Zoe Bradley herself is a very interesting woman she started her career straight from college working with the late designer Alexander McQueen on show pieces for his Spring Summer Ready to Wear Collection in 1999.  Her first dive in to working with paper was creating window displays for Tiffany and Co.  She has since worked with big names such as Dior, Louis Vuitton and Department Store Selfridges.  

Since the launch of the Paper Dress Zoe has had some request from celebs to create some wearable paper dress for them.  Watch this space could be the next big thing to hit the celeb world (I just hope this are careful around naked flames . . .).

When ENEX100 (http://enex100.com) do an event they do it in style.  This breakfast was part of their Shades of Summer Shopping Event which saw many interesting events through the day from free popcorn in the office tower foyer (I am so lucky to work in the building) to champagne and shopping discounts in the shopping centre.  Looking forward to the next event.



Thanks Enex for the yummy breakfast



Sculpting Style by Zoe Bradley is on display in Enex100 from 03 December 2014 to 31 January 2015.  It really is work a look.

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