The word Shifu, for example, applies to a special technique that employs the pages of old accounting books cut into strips and sewn or worked with knitting needles to create low-cost garments. In more recent times, after a brief boom in the 1960s, it has provided a pretext for daring experimentation by avant-garde fashion designers including Helmut Lang, Martin Margiela, Hussein Chalayan, Issey Miyake and Jean-Charles de Castelbajac. Growing ecological awareness has seen the arrival of projects based on biotechnology such as BioCouture by Suzanne Lee, who makes clothes from a special bacterial cellulose, and initiatives linked to recycling, such as “Pleats dresses, paper trial, research process” by Issey Miyake. Avant-garde, ecologist, experimental and whimsical – the “RRRIPP!! Paper Fashion” travelling exhibition organised by the Atopos cultural association in Athens is touring Europe to highlight the strange relationship between fashion and cellulose and will be enriched with new contents at every stop. It will be at Mudam, Musée d’Art Moderne in Luxembourg until 2 February. Forthcoming venues are Antwerp and London. E. S.