True Contours
Designer: Karen Holm
Materials: slide sleeves & topo maps
2015 Adult Runway Gallery Posted!
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2015 Business Challenge Runway Gallery Posted!
RESTORE Business Challenge
What an amazing Business Challenge it was! Just over 9 months ago, on January 15th the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show highlighted 10 sustainably minded businesses. Talented designers creatively crafted couture from the businesses own refuse. Check out the newly posted 2015 Business Challenge Runway gallery with photos by Tambi Lane Photography.
Our Business Challenge closes when we reach 10 completed applications. Learn more about supporting Rubbish Renewed as a Business Challenge participant here. Submit your Business Challenge online application today to compete for the Coveted Trash Trophy!
PROJECT RUNWAY USES REAL REFUSE FOR ONCE
Kelly Dempsey creates this textured dress with cut pieces of metal ducting.
Ashley Tipton plays with Polaroids.
Project Runway is known for it’s unconventional challenge. Each season, on at least one episode, show designers run to retrieve something unfabric-like, sponsored by some corporation or another. Although unconventional, the objects are new material that is re-envisioned into fashion. Designers use base fabric and hot glue to construct something unique. However amazing, this is not Trash Fashion. (Read our last post “Organic Matter isn’t Rubbish”).
This season, episode 7, used real refuse for once! “The designers go dumpster diving for recycled electronics in order to merge the worlds of fashion and technology.” Although they still use muslin (new material – not allowed in Rubbish Renewed) for base fabric and many use hot glue to assemble the garment, the concept hits the mark. See how these designers manipulate materials, using the innate qualities to push the fashion forward!
How will you stretch your use of materials this season?
Edmond Newton & Candice Cuoco use keyboard keys, wire, and mouse pads.
THE RUBBISH RENEWED RUNWAY KILLS IT IN STYLE
Bishops Barbershop rockin’ the hair styling
The jury is in; the 5th annual Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion show was the best ever! More fun, more energy and more style. We couldn’t have done it without the nimble hands of the stylists from Bishops Barbershop and Posh Salon & Spa. The green room pulsed with creative garment connections, slick cohesion and quick turnaround. More than 40 models, styled masterfully, walked the runway to the upbeat music from Flip Flop Sounds.
A few of our sponsors also set the style tone:
Posh Solon brightening faces.
Models Autumn Weeks & Caleb Campbell
Urban Orchid provides a wide array of services from relaxing facials, trust-worthy brow design, to hydrating spa manicures and pedicures.
Lulu’s Boutique has an eye for what people like and is truly passionate about bringing great style and reasonably priced fashion to Bend.
Plantlife Clothing an organic design based company, strives to show the beautiful relationship between natures geometric patterns and the forces and frequencies that bind us all.
Wabi Sabi sells Cool Japanese Stuff. A quote from Yelp states, “The best collectibles! Japanese decor, toys, and gifts. Really nice staff. I loved this store!”
Looking at the runway from the DJ perspective of Flip Flop Sounds.
The Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show showcases how we “fashion” our lives while lessening waste. Thanks to all of our sponsors (linked on the side bar), designers, models, marketplace vendors, and volunteers for making it the best show ever!
A special thanks to Kimberly Harwood, Misa Olsen & others who jumped in to help facilitate a chic and timely styling.
Refuse Remover: Bend’s Makers District
The Rubbish Renewed mission embraces actions to lower our impact on the planet. Whether you rethink 
your use of waste, support businesses who put sustainability and equity at the forefront of there work, or use your consumer dollars to shop locally, each of these actions improves the sustainability of our community. Our new headline sponsor, Bend’s Makers District, fits this mission perfectly.
Located at the center of our Bend universe, on First and Second streets between Greenwood and Olney avenues, Bend’s Makers District is a collection of eclectic local enterprises in a semi-industrial but accessible city neighborhood. This up and coming district has everything to meet your sustainable, creative consumer needs.
Bend Hoops is dedicated to providing access for anyone (especially youth) to come and find a pick-up game or a path to competitive basketball.
Bend Velo is a unique bike shop, geared towards building and providing practical bikes for the general public, including repurposed rebuilds.
Central Oregon Trophies is a family owned business that puts community at the center of service.
Far Afield Cider was born from having enough of the corporate world and a desire to create something locally in the best place, Bend.
At the heart of Humm Kombucha is a calling “to care for their community and spread health, love and joy to all things they touch.”
Locavore educates, and improve access for, the Central Oregon community, about the health and social benefits of fresh, nutritious food that is sustainably produced locally.
Natural Edge Furniture makes natural edge peices from salvaged, recovered and recycled materials.
Rack-N-Roll offers easy access to Bend’s local adventures with all types of gear carrying storage.
Sara Bella Upcycled creates upcycled, stylish products from handbags to fashion wear made from plastic bags that would otherwise have been thrown in the trash.
Soul Bowl makes a whole foods lunch that is satisfying, filling, easily digested and nourishes your mind, body, and soul.
utilitu sewing & design Allison Murphy employs innovation, efficiency, and relevant design skills to alter, repair, create, and design.
Check out ‘Maker’s March’ during the month of March, which will be a series of DIY events scattered throughout the district, hosts paired with artists and people invited to participate in a hands on activity.
Bend’s Makers District will also by vying for the Coveted Trash Trophy in our 4th Business Challenge!
PHOTO SHOOT SNEAK PEAK
Thursday, December 18th, Rubbish Renewed gathered 15 garments at Tambi Lane Photography for our pre-show photo shoot. We invited Business Challenge participants, live auction item designers, and had a lottery of students for our final few spots. 2 of our 10 Business Challenge garments came, and 7 of 9 auction items. We filled the final spots with a lottery selection of completed student submissions. Thank you Bishops Barbershop for the exquisite hair, Kimberly Harwood for the makeup glow and Tambi Lane Photography, our Rubbish Renewed official photographer, for your masterful vision and photo execution! Here is a sneak peak of what is to come at the show on Thursday, January 15th.
AUCTION GARMENTS – Click on the photo to link to the auction garments
Auction Item
Designer: Paula Bullwinkel
Materials: Old Curtain & photo photocopies
BUSINESS CHALLENGE – Click on the photo to link to the Business Challenge
Business Challenge: Stringsoil
Designer: NSpekktor
Materials:
STUDENT GARMENTS – Click on the photo to link to the student garments
Student Designer: Sydney Phillips
Materials:
RR Student Designers in Action
Friday I captured this time-lapse in the REALMS Rubbish Renewed Elective. Look closely in this 30 second video to see 5 different students using these 2 sewing machines to complete garments! Check out their quotes below to see what a few students learned while creating garments to submit to the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show.
I learned:
- How to use a sewing machine.
- When something falls apart, cry for a minute, then get back up and keep working.
- To see shapes differently. I can make 2-D pieces fit 3-D people.
- That good design takes time.
- How to go from nothing into something.
- Fashion can be sustainable.
- To really look at materials to see what they can become.
- That through my actions, I can make a difference for the earth.
(Sewing machines were purchased 2 years ago from Rubbish Renewed fundraising proceeds. All 6th graders now have a chance to learn to use a sewing machine)!
Behind the Scene Designer Series: Artist 4 – Paula Bullwinkel
When Paula Bullwinkel, our 4th Behind the Scene Designer, isn’t designing couture trash fashion, she works as an artist and art instructor at COCC. I’m always blown away by the strong lines that flow through Paula’s designs. She get’s the human form, and from this, transforms the materials into an extension of the wearer. Here’s a peak into Paula’s process of transforming trash and inspiring community for a more sustainable earth.
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Artist 4 – Paula Bullwinkel
Designer: Paula Bullwinkle
Materials. 7 old oil paintings
RR: How did you get started as a trash fashion designer?
PB: I found extra stuff around my house and I like to imagine something new out of something old or mundane.
RR: What inspires your creations?
PB: I’m inspired by Japanese couture from 1980’s and 1990’s, and 1950’s party dresses.
RR: What is one thing you want to say to all the aspiring young designers?
PB: Art can be wearable.
RR: What is your current goal as a Trash Fashion Designer?
Designers: Paula & Violet Bullwinkle
Materials: Skirt; Brown Grocery Bags, Shirt; Old Tights
PB: I would like to find some really unusual materials in a junk or thrift shop to make something nobody has seen before. I would like to construct something huge and gorgeous.
There’s no question in my mind that Paula Bullwinkel will “construct something huge and gorgeous” for this year’s Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show. Come out and get a glimpse on Thursday, January 15th.
Tickets on sale December 15th. Purchase online at rubbishrenewed.com through eventbrite, at REALMS Charter School in Bend (63175 OB Riley Road), or at Wabi Sabi (downtown Bend / 830 NW Wall St).
Behind the Scene Designer Series: Artist 3 – N Spekktor
Our third artist in the Behind the Scene Designer Series, N Spekktor, has participated in Rubbish Renewed every year since 2010. N Spekktor is one of the few Rubbish Renewed artists who works as a fashion designer, in real life, outside of her passion for trash fashion. Each year she’s produced a spectacular piece for our 21 and older show. Last year N Spekktor generously donated her piece, Bags to Ballroom, for our live auction. We can’t wait to see what N Spekktor has in store for this year’s event that is transforming trash and inspiring community for a more sustainable earth.
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Designer: N. Spekktor
Materials: Plastic grocery bags
Artist 3 – N Spekktor
RR: What do you do in real life when you’re not designing and creating trash fashion?
N Spekktor: I’m a Fashion/Graphic Designer, Event Coordinator, and Co-Producer of Beat Lab 92.9 FM. Over the past year I have traveled throughout the west coast showcasing my first ever swimsuit line and taking on collaborative projects with other designers such as Burning Artist Collective in Reno, NV.
RR: What hooked you on our Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show event?
N Spekktor: I heard about this wonderful show from a friend and loved the cause. Not only do I get to play a part in Eco Fashion, but I get to support an amazing school.
Designer: N Spekktor
Materials: Newspaper & plastic garbage bags
RR: What inspires your creations?
N Spekktor: Each year I have created a different look using a variety of materials. This year I will be collaborating with a local business to create something that has never been on the Rubbish Renewed Runway.
RR: What is one thing you want to say to all the aspiring young designers?
N Spekktor: No matter how much they bully you or try to hold you back, please remember only you know what you are truly capable of. Don’t ever let anyone stop you. I did it and so can you.
The 5th annual Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show welcomes N Spekktor into the Business Challenge competition as the designer for Stringsoil garment this season! Thanks N Spekktor for your dedication to sustainability through your creative fashion vision. We can’t wait to see what you pull out of the midden.
Student Designers at the heart of Rubbish Renewed – Gallery Posted
Designer: Ashlie Jackson
Materials: vhs tape & discarded cash register tape cores
Quote: “Through the many challenges of the design process I have learned perseverance.”
Rubbish Renewed started as a brainchild of two REALMS teachers. It makes sense then, that student designers are the heart of this event. For these young designers, Rubbish Renewed starts months before the show. It’s a time of creativity, determination and grit. The Rubbish Renewed tagline declares: transforming trash and inspiring community for a more sustainable earth, so inspiring students to rethink waste and learn life skills like perseverance is the perfect indicator of success for Rubbish Renewed. Here are a few quotes from last year’s talented student designers:
“I learned that trash is never gone, but with some creativity we can make magic happen!” Olivia Rose Barnes
“I really had to think outside the box, because finding useful trash materials is harder than using store bought materials.” Jessica Browning
“I learned that it is harder to make a dress for a person then for a doll.” Lilah Beck
“Inspiration can be found in almost anything, and once you find it anything can become something beautiful.” Soleil Haskell
“Through the many challenges of the design process I have learned perseverance.” Ashlie Jackson
“Creating is like a house of cards. It might fall down at first, but then you rethink it a second time.” Sydney Scott
“Through constructing my garment I learned that to create something you find beautiful you must mind meld with those who see its potential.” Isabella Robles
“Trash fashion can be just as cute as store bought clothes, plus it saves our planet.” Joanna Browning
“Turning garbage into fashion is like a bud turning into a rose, it may look like nothing at first, but it will blossom into something beautiful.” Denali Heinlen
Check out the new Runway 2014 Student Designer gallery posted today! Runway photos by Tambi Lane Photography.
Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show 