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Paper-Cut-Project designers Nikki Salk and Amy Flurry bring a whole new meaning to the phrase “look good on paper.” The Atlanta-based duo has designed paper art pieces for the likes of Hermès and Cartier, and tomorrow their elaborate creations will accessorize the looks on the runway at Jen Kao.

“It’s a weird kismet,” Kao tells Style.com. “Right after my last season, I was thinking about doing a paper-inspired collection, and the next day, out of the blue, I got a postcard from them about possibly collaborating.”

Salk and Flurry then went to work laboring on the pieces to add a bit of fantasy to Kao’s “streetwear-inspired” collection. “My collection is a balance between beautiful and enticing and dangerous,” Kao says. Tomorrow, watch for paper headdresses and a shoulder cage made with Bristol paper, glue, and an X-Acto knife, that’s it. “I have been working on one piece for two weeks, it’s insane,” Flurry says. “These are taking that long, yes, but the end result is crazy beautiful and it drives us to do what we do.”

Even the paper cuts don’t stop these two. “Yes, I have several,” Flurry says, laughing. “More than paper cuts, you get a callus because of working with an X-Acto knife.” Well, pain is beauty, right?
-Kristin Studeman

Photos: Courtesy of Paper-Cut-Project

Dior Haute Joaillerie designer Victoire de Castellane namely known as her candy-colored, vibrantly trippy institutions. (As she revealed in our video shopping trip with her, she gravitates toward mushrooms—presumably for accessories merely.) Her fashionable project, done beneath her own appoint and detach from her Dior endeavors, mines entire of the hallucinogenic allusions from her earlier go to establish complete pharmacopeia. Fleurs d’excès—that’s “Flowers of Excess”—is influenced along the mind-altering and intoxicating drugs. The nice gems (costs aboard request—in other words, stratospherically tall) will debut by Gagosian Gallery’s Paris Project space during the Fall collections. The pieces, in gold and silver inlaid with rubies, diamonds, jade, rhyolite, and more, go aboard view to the public March 2 through March 22.

Photos: Victoire de Castellane, Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery