The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh recently opened its Art, Design and Fashion galleries. To celebrate the new galleries the museum launched a programme of events (that will start on 12th November) revolving around fashion, with several talks and workshops, such as meetings with designers and craftspeople, illustration classes and debates about shapes, silhouettes and style in general.
The museum has also started uploading images from its collections showing specific garments in 360° degrees, a great chance to analyse a design in detail and from different angles even when you live miles and miles away from the museum.
Yet if you're looking for a fun activity to do for the weekend, check out the PDF file with a paper doll that you can dress in Jean Muir designs.
Yes, this may be a basic exercise, but it gives you the chance to dress your doll in the 1980 Robot print dress by Muir.
In matte bottle green jersey (Muir favoured matte jersey as she thought excess pigment destroyed a fabric's texture) with a Pespex belt buckle, the Robot dress featured a minimalist yet futuristic print of stylised lightning bolts. The Robot print featured in a number of viscose matte jersey dresses from the Spring/Summer 1980 collection.
The paper doll may be a very simple thing (but, hey, even Yves Saint Laurent loved making paper dolls…), but it points towards crafts, while the robot theme propels us towards technology.
Have a fun weekend trying to reinvent this design for your doll, you can draw it, use scraps of fabrics or other assorted materials and make a collage, or even come up with something more technological, after all there is no limit to the fun you can have with a plain paper doll.
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