Redmond Proficiency Academy Digs into Trash (Fashion)

Posted on March 4, 2024 by Rubbish Renewed

With the Rubbish Renewed season coming spring, people around Central Oregon are looking at trash with a new eye. What is the essence of the material? How can I make something from nothing? What impact can I have on contributing to a more sustainable earth?

RPA students dug into a trash fashion during their January winter intensives. They explored unconventional, tossed-away materials, visioned and drew, then started to work their magic with different techniques.

Working with trash is hard and inspiring. Here’s a few of their thoughts:

Juno: “The work is a lot of trial and error.”

Trinity: “It helps grow my creativity”

Asher: “It’s fun and interesting taking trash and turning it into something cool. It’s cool seeing other people’s creativity and their works of art.”

We’re hoping to see some of these finished pieces on the runway! Time to start thinking about the submission process.

What will you create?

Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show Submission Deadline is Friday, April 5th for the May 11th event. Your garment does not have to be complete by the submission deadline, but the further along you are in the process, the more information the jury will have to make their decision.

Runway Submissions are Open

Posted on February 9, 2024 by Rubbish Renewed

It’s the designers, and their creativity, material manipulation, passion for fashion and our planet, that makes Rubbish Renewed unique, entertaining, and meaningful. Each year designers, like you, have made this one of the most coveted and exciting shows in Bend!

The Student and Adult Designer Submission Forms are up and will be open until the Garment Submission deadline at midnight on Friday, April 5th. For inspiration on the trash fashion creation process, student and adult designs, the runway show, the event, and our garment criteria, watch one or both of these short videos (3-4+ minutes – with some slightly different information):

Let us know what you are working on. We will highlight several designers again this year. Spread the word and get designing!

What will you Create?

Calling All Aspiring Trash Fashion Designers!

Posted on January 13, 2024 by Rubbish Renewed

Calling all aspiring Trash Fashion Designers! It’s 4-months until the 2024 Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show and a great time to start creating. This cold, blustery weather is the perfect moment to snuggle in and start visioning. Where do you get your inspiration? Check out past Rubbish Renewed blog posts below to help you get inspired! We can’t wait to see what YOU create?

Click on the following links to revisit some past idea generating blog posts:

Calling All Creatives – Discover the Essence of Rubbish

Material Manipulation from Waste to Wear-ability

Project Runway Uses Real Refuse for Once

Organic Matter isn’t Rubbish

RR Student Designers in Action

Inspiration from The Unconventional Challenge

Virtual Inspiration

Where does your inspiration start? Design? Materials? Techniques?

Taking their Impact Seriously – Business Challenge Gallery Posted

Posted on November 22, 2023 by Rubbish Renewed

Click here to explore the captivating 2023 Business Challenge Gallery

The effect of Climate Change is more pronounced every day. It’s mind boggling. Each consumer decision we make aggravates or reduces our impact on the planet. I believe our collective actions make a difference. One positive step is to support local businesses who take their impact seriously. Just the habit of buying local minimizes carbon waste – less fuel for shipping, less packaging… and supporting businesses who put the environment at the forefront can increase your positive impact.

That’s why we love the Rubbish Renewed Business Challenge! We highlight the sustainable work of local businesses who take their impact seriously.

This year ReStore, Gear Fix, Lonza, Ida’s Cupcakes, Humm Kombucha, Tiina and Zoey Designs, Aloha Blinds and Design, and Eastlake Framing came together to celebrate sustainability, support Realms education, and compete for the Coveted Trash Trophy.

Celebrate environmentally conscious businesses by experiencing the 2023 Business Challenge Gallery through the diverse photos from Deb Quinlan, Joe Kline, Kimberly Teichrow Photography, Melissa Dholakia, and Paula Bullwinkel and highlights from these businesses’ sustainable practices.

It’s About Time – 2023 Student Garment Gallery Posted

Posted on October 27, 2023 by Rubbish Renewed

Suddenly, it’s the end of October! Fall is the time my Rubbish Renewed brain kicks in. It’s the time designers, show goers, and art teachers start to connect, and it’s the time to post the 2023 Show Galleries!

2023 Student Garment Gallery

Rubbish Renewed 2023 had a diverse team of photographers. Thanks to Kimberly Teichrow Photography, Paula Bullwinkel, Deb Quinlan, Joe Kline, and Melissa Dholakia for the incredible images you’ll find in our galleries.

Enjoy the first of the series with the 2023 Student Garment Gallery!

Adult Garment Gallery and Business Challenge Gallery coming soon!

Best Auction Ever!

Posted on June 12, 2023 by Rubbish Renewed

The 6 stunning items auctioned this year raised more than $4000!

Each year more designers than we have space for offer up their trash fashion pieces for auction. These designers’ strong belief in the Rubbish Renewed sustainable community mission, and the desire to support education, inspires. We choose to auction meticulously constructed pieces that are wearable or displayable. Thank you to these generous and talented designers for their spectacular support!

Designer DeeDee Johnson, Chandalicious, Model Anna Rohrer – reclaimed gym equipment wipes, landscape tubing, chandelier beads from Restore trash. (Photo Left: Deb Quinlan; Photo Center: Paula Bullwinkel; Photo Right: Melissa Barnes Dhalokia)

Designer Carolyn Parker, Leather Leftovers, Model Aliyah Boelter – Discarded leather scraps and thrifted items. (Photo Left: Paula Bullwinkel; Photos Center and Right: Kimberly Teichrow)

Martha Campbell, North for the Winter, Model Caleb Campbell – discarded pop-up tent canopy, upcycled blanket. (Photo Left: Kimberly Teichrow; Photo Center: Melissa Barnes Dhalokia; Photo Right: Paula Bullwinkel)

Designer Heidi Lamb, Stained Glass Butterfly, Model Kristin Chandler – Vinyl coated nylon, plastic plexiglass, paint. (Photos Left and Center: Kimberly Teichrow; Photo Right: Deb Quinlan)

Designers Tiina McDermott and Zoey Lane, Walk in Beauty, Model Jacqui Warren – second hand rug, fur, and motocross rubber. (Photo Left: Kimberly Teichrow; Photo Center: Deb Quinlan; Photo Right: Paula Bullwinkel)

Designer Karen Holm, Spinnaglider, Model Julia Walker – sail maker spinnaker drop ends, decommissioned para-glider. (Photo Left: Kimberly Teichrow; Photos Center and Right: Paula Bullwinkel)

The Garments are the Show! Peak at the Portraits

Posted on June 4, 2023 by Rubbish Renewed

Photos by Kimberly Teichrow Photography

The “models” bring the trash fashion garments to life that local designers from elementary students to adults create and showcase on the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show runway. After a 2 year pandemic pause the 2023 event blew our minds! On Saturday, May 20th, 50 trash fashion pieces graced Flip Flop Sounds stunning runway, highlighting waste from plastic produce bags to blinds, slides, and medical waste. 26 were student designed garments and 24 were designed by adults including 8 Businesses.

Thanks to a team of photographers, we’ll be posting a variety of photos over the next few weeks (including galleries), that capture the story and the details of all the pieces. Get a taste of the artistry through Kimberly Teichrow’s portraits, a stunning new addition this year! You can go to Kimberly’s Rubbish Renewed 2023 Proofs to access all her stunning photos for purchase.

Designers: *Nora Sites & Sam Press, Amity Creek*

And the Business Challenge Winner is…

Posted on May 25, 2023 by Rubbish Renewed

……Wait for it…… 8 Businesses competed in Saturday night’s Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show Business Challenge, all creating masterpieces from their Business’ trash to showcase their sustainable practices and vie for the Coveted Trash Trophy! Aloha Blinds & Designs, Gear Fix, Ida’s Cupcakes, ReStore, Tiina and Zoey Designs, Lonza, Humm Kombucha, and Eastlake Framing all hit the runway for some friendly competition.

And the winner is…Aloha Blinds & Design!

Business Challenge Winner Aloha Blinds & Design. Photos by: Deb Quinlan

More photos to come soon!!!!

Designer Profile: Devon Lizza

Posted on April 23, 2023 by Rubbish Renewed

Devon Lizza discovered the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show through her mom’s friend’s daughter, when she was a high school student at Bend High, and never looked back! Now, a second-year student in the architecture program at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Devon has designed another spectacular piece transforming trash into an eye dazzling color experience!

What inspires your creations?

**2019 Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show** *Materials: K-cups, plastic Bags, old bike tire*

I have to say color. I think that color is just an inspiration in itself as it’s the one true way to bring life to something. When I start looking at garbage it’s always the color I am drawn to first followed by how to alter it into something unrecognizable. This sorta flows into the process for me as I want the end look to be nothing like what it’s made out of. I’ve designed with gum wrappers, chocolate wrappers, and kediri cups in the past and I always know I’ve done it right when people continually ask me “what on earth is this made of”.

How do you connect to the Rubbish Renewed mission – transforming trash and inspiring community for a sustainable earth?

Being a lifelong Oregonian and a student at UO with a sustainably focused architecture program, it goes to show I love this event for more than just the sheer ingenuity it spurs but also the mission and message behind it. I believe in sustainability being the future of the world’s success and that people can contribute to this themselves. I myself am a vegetarian and an avid thrifter, one because I love the things and secondly after I found out that those two things are single handedly the most environmentally positive impactful an individual person can do.

**2020 Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show** *Materials: Hershey chocolate wrappers, newspaper (for structure beneath wrappers)*

What is one thing you want to share with aspiring trash fashion designers?

My advice to aspiring designers is to just keep things interesting and design trashion garments with things you would least expect. Sometimes I have a little game in my head walking around that I challenge myself to imagine what type of clothes can be made from whatever odd trinkets and garbage I see. Keep people guessing what things are made of and ALWAYS keep a lookout for some color.

Come see Devon’s newest creation along with 45 other incredible garments created by student and adult community designers at the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show, on May 20th at the Pavilion!