Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave transforms paper into elegant dresses that look as if they are made of silk, velvet or lace. While she discusses some of what it takes to create these clothes, much of her process is a closely guarded secret. Isabelle's latest exhibit recently opened in Sweden:

Renaissance Fashion in Paper - The Medici Family Outside the Frame

Now on exhibit at The Royal Armoury, the oldest museum in Sweden. Click here fore more information.

From the Museum:

15 September 2016 – 19 March 2017

Impressive costumes, opulent creations, extravagant forms and strong colours. Lace, frills, trains, rosettes and flounces. A Renaissance collection – inspired by the most powerful Renaissance family, the Medicis. The collection has been entirely made of paper by the Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave. Now her most extravagant collection is being presented in the Royal Armoury in the Royal Palace, for the first time in both Sweden and Scandinavia.

This video, from a few years ago, describes just a bit of her process.