Paper clothing makes fashion statement

Competition in France sees designers using traditional Chinese architectural technique to build innovative apparel, Wang Xin reports

Paper as a clothing fabric has unfolded new possibilities in the hands of Shanghai designers as 20 apparel designs made with paper stunned the world at the closing ceremony of the 47th World-Skills Competition in Lyon, France.

Zhang Zufang, a 72-year-old professor at Donghua University in Shanghai, is the lead designer of this paper apparel.