Mayhem. It’s not just a nickname for our kid anymore. It very accurately describes the past five days of our lives. First, we can’t begin to tell you how humbling it is to have so many people reaching out to us and sharing that our story of making paper dresses has…
The (First) Vision Board Dress
Daydreaming about tropical vacations used to among my favorite pastimes. Truth be told, once upon a time, I even sold travel. On the side. For a few years. It was fun. Pre-Mayhem, we were developing the habit of vacationing in places that required we do a whole lotta nothing. Crystal…
Anatomy of The Kristin Dress
If you FaceTime with Mayhem for an hour and have cute dogs who do cool tricks, Mayhem will insist upon making a dress in your honor. Just ask Kristin. Aka @lunaticatlarge. Wait, you don’t know Kristin? You should. Journalist, conference organizer, entrepreneur, everything she touches turns to gold, first true…
#inspiredbymayhem – We Want To See YOUR Creations
Excuse Mayhem for a moment while she finishes her cookie. Because eating a chocolate chip cookie while posing in a “chocolate” dress only makes sense, right? Pretty much not a day goes by that we don’t receive a message from someone letting us know how much they enjoy what we’re…
Anatomy of a Paper Project Runway Dress
To date, this is our most time consuming dress. It took somewhere close to four hours to make. And that time was spread over two days (attention span shortage, anyone?). We have tabs open on our iPad showing google image search results for both “Taylor Swift dresses” and “Project Runway…
Welcome to Our New Home
Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. You may have seen some of our images on Instagram tagged with #fashionbymayhem, but there’s more to the story than can usually be seen in a single image. So consider this site the space where we’ll be sharing more. It’ll still be highly visual,…