An Athens exhibition appropriately titled "Rip!" is exploring paper's potential use as a fabric.   "Few people are aware that clothes from paper exist, it takes you to another dimension, another planet", says Vassilis Zidianakis, a fashion scholar and curator of the Athens-based Atopos cultural organization.

These dresses appeared in America in 1966 for the first time, to promote the products of a large paper manufacturing company and soon passed into the hands of designers and fashion houses, creating a new fashion fully expressive of the sixties Pop culture.

The non profit ATOPOS has over one hundred authentic paper dresses of the time in its collections, having managed to collect and preserve the largest number of these fragile garments existing today in a museum collection.