Did the Art Directors Club of Denver have to paper the house in order to say that 800 people attended its recent fashion show?
Guess that depends how you define “paper the house.”
Tickets for the sixth edition of the ADCD’s Paper Fashion Show sold like the proverbial hotcakes because no one wanted to miss the event best described as a showcase for the brilliant and creative minds that can turn something as ordinary as sheets of paper into a work of art.
Thirty design teams took part this year, using material donated by Xpedx, Unisource and Spicers Paper to fashion wearable art that dazzled audience members and the panel of judges who awarded prizes in several categories. The judges included representatives from the Denver Art Museum, Colorado Business Committee for the Arts, Denverfashion and local boutiques.
First place went to the Museum of Outdoor Arts for “A Walk in the Sculpture Park.” CSK Group, GenFem, Blue Team and Philosophy Communication/Section 45 also were winners and you can see what their entries look like in a slide show at .
Jimmy Diffee, a past president of the ADCD, is the one who started the Paper Fashion Show, an event that current leader Jay Roth says “just keeps getting better and better.” The money it raises goes to Downtown Aurora Visual Arts.
It’s all good.
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