Artist creates gown with toilet paper
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An artist has fashioned an elaborate wedding gown using nothing but 11 rolls of toilet paper, 100 feet of tape and a hefty quantity of glue.
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Olivia Mears, an art student based in Asheville, North Carolina, wears an elaborate wedding gown that she designed personally, in the photo published on Monday, June 2, 2014. [Photo: dailymail.co.uk] |
Olivia Mears, an art student based in Asheville, North Carolina, built her creation for the annual Cheap Chic Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest, sponsored, naturally, by Charmin.
'I learned about the contest with only a few weeks to prepare the dress', she tells MailOnline, estimating that she probably spent around 20 hours working on it.
Ms. Mears, who says she creates a lot of Victorian and fantasy inspired pieces as part of her artworks, wanted to incorporate the same magical theme into the dress.
'Based on Victorian ball gowns I decided on a tiered train, embroidered corset style bodice, and the layers of roses and ruffles', she explains.
'But to make it more contemporary I dropped the sleeves, let the bottom drape down naturally, and opened the front of the dress.
The resulting gown is certainly a spectacle to behold; an eruption of frothy frills, built around a sturdy bodice and finished with intricate weavings of gold tape.
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