For the Arkansas Times Influential Arkansans Gala last Friday, director of advertising Phyllis Britton commissioned the dress below from Detroit designer Matthew F. Richmond, whose dresses made from recycled paper have been featured in Italian Vogue and on CNN. Phyllis discovered Richmond at a conference in Detroit last year. Times account executive Sarah DeClerk modeled the Times dress on Friday. It’s made of 100 copies of July’s Best of Arkansas issue.

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