I’m so excited to finally post another gallery from the 2016 Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show. The 2016 Adult Runway gallery has a slightly different look. Each designer’s garment features 3 photos from Heaven McCarthur’s story telling style. Many of the mosaics include a close-up of the materials and fabrication methods, something that usually only those in the green room get to see. Look for the 2016 Business Challenge Gallery in the next few days!
The deadline for designer applications is just 4 weeks away! Get inspired by perusing the 2016 student runway gallery with photos by Heaven McArthur. Many of these students are first time designers, while others are seasoned veterans with multiple entrees over our Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show history.
Designs by students are often the most fresh and innovative as they see the world differently than their older counterparts. For more student inspiration, link to the blog posts and galleries below from previous years. Then, let the creativity soak in and get started designing!
Behind the Scenes Designer Series: Artist 5 Olivia Barnes
2016 Student Garment Sneak Peak: Gallery
2015 Student Runway Gallery Posted!
RR Student Designers in Action
Student Designers at the Heart of Rubbish Renewed – 2014 Student Gallery Posted!
Kids inspire me. With Trash Fashion on my back burner for months, it took the beginning of the school year with a slew of excited middle school students to get my mind spinning with ideas. For the first post of the Rubbish Renewed season, here is an encouraging account written by several of last fall’s REALMS Rubbish Renewed Elective students. Several fantastic photos, by Heaven McArthur, highlight garments made by students quoted below, and Joe Kline’s ghostly image of the community garment.
This year the Rubbish Renewed Elective at REALMS was a hectic blur of measurements, cutting, restarting, redoing, sketching, and stitching. All of us, in the elective, had the goal of making it to the runway. Finally, after hours of work and thought poured into every garment, the deadline for submissions had arrived. That day, everyone was fussing over this or that trying to find the perfect name and description for their garment. Even now that everyone’s submissions were in, the suspense wasn’t over. We waited and waited for the results to come by email on the 12th of December. After days of anticipation the wait was over, whether your submission made it or not we still had work to do. The community garment had yet to be started. Those whose submissions had made it in continued to mess with their designs until it was just right. Others worked and worked on the community garment featuring old calculators from the 6th grade math room. All of the students in Rubbish Renewed had a delightful experience and are planning on making more trash fashion next year. Here are some comments that our students had:
“Waiting backstage was delightfully nerve wracking,” said student model and designer Becky Knight.
Photo by Heaven McArthur
We tried something new this year! We invited a team of photographers to help us capture the whole Rubbish Renewed story. Thank you to Heaven McArthur, Joe Kline, Paula Bullwinkle, and Krystal Collins for being our inaugural Rubbish Renewed Photography Team.
Joe Kline Photos HERE / to purchase Joe’s photos, go to the gallery HERE and use the password, “rubbish”.
Heaven McArthur Photos HERE / FLASH SALE TIL MONDAY at Midnight.
A message from Heaven McArthur: Did you go to the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show this year? it was my first year and i was totally and absolutely blown away. the show is a fundraiser for the REALMS school (http://www.friendsofrealms.org/) and to keep the money coming, I am offering prints for sale with 50% of the proceeds to go to REALMS, if you were there or know someone who was and care to share, please do! as a bonus if you purchase a full digital set of images, you’ll receive a copy of the slideshow, which, after april 1st will be the only way to see it. \\\\\ link to the images: http://heavenmcarthur.pixieset.com/rubbishrenewedecofashion… (backstage, 1st and 2nd show categories are listed along the top row) they are only on sale till MONDAY at midnight, so hurry flurry!! if you have any questions, give me a ring, a ping, a shout!! (video coming next! )
Paula Bullwinkle & Krystal Collins- check back for gallery coming soon.
Are you still buzzing from our show last week? We are too! We did it…with YOU!
We had another successful fundraising event. The Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show was back for the 6th year and we saw bigger than ever numbers, making this one of Bend’s greatest loved events. We saw greater than 500 people through our doors for each of our two shows, we found the generous support from 25 Bend business sponsors, we enlisted the creativity of 60+ models and designers, and employed more than 30 dedicated volunteers to raise just under $22,000 for REALMS Magnet School.
We would like to thank everyone who came to support Rubbish Renewed and REALMS Magnet School. The entire evening was a true success and absolutely showcased how we can transform trash and inspire community for a sustainable earth. We appreciate the time, effort and innovation of this year’s designers and could absolutely not do this event without YOU. Your one of a kind garments were impressive and helped create another unique show. The student designers continue to “wow” the audience with their creativity and collaboration, and after all these years we continue to see new materials on the runway. A testament to your designing spirit and environmental consciousness.
A SPECIAL THANKS GOES OUT TO…
Our Headline Sponsors: Habitat for Humanity ReStore for continuing to be an integral part of our event for the 6th year; through your sponsorship, we are able to provide the infrastructure and materials to put on Rubbish Renewed, Sonic Solutions for providing the professional runway stage and lights, Flip Flop Sounds for the stellar music and DJ, and Tambi Lane Photography for your pre-event promotional photos. We truly could not do this without YOU!
Our Additional Event Sponsors: Bend Electric Bikes, Camp Nor’wester, PlantLife Clothing, Rescue Collective, The Environmental Center/ReThink Waste, and Wabi Sabi.
ReThink Waste for helping our audience sort their waste from the show, ultimately contributing only one 1/4 can to the landfill.
Our Runway Hair Crew from Bishops Barbershop who set the style for the night! Than you to Sam and Crew: Jennifer, Jyl, Shannon, Mizmi, Jessie, and Heather for creating the perfect look to compliment each unique garment, while creating a subtle theme, tying all the looks together!
Our Photography Crew: Joe Kline, Paula Bullwinkle, Heaven McArthur, Krystal Collins for helping us tell the whole Rubbish Renewed story through the moments captured by YOU. Like our Rubbish Renewed Facebook Page and follow us on Instagram (#rubbishrenewed) for the 2016 photos! Coming Soon!!!
Our Media Support: The Source, Cascade A & E, 1017fm for helping us get the word out!
Our esteemed Emcee, Jessie Russell, for your timing and wit.
Our Auctioneer, Zach Richards, for your steadfastness and easy-going spirit.
Our Runway Make-Up Crew created by this talented team: Misa, Kimberly, Moon, Hayer, Kate, Sheena, Mayra, and Rocio
Our VIP Table Sponsor; Broken Top Bottle Shop for the delicious appetizers.
Our Food Cart, Barrio, for serving up the “yums”.
Our Green Room Sponsor, Jackson’s Corner, for keeping our models fed through copious amounts of homemade pizzas.
Our Midtown Hosts, Jim & Jennifer, for working with our multifaceted event. It wasn’t Mac Miller or Snoop Dogg;)
Our Beverage Sponsors, Boneyard Beer, Atlas Cider, and Crater Lakes Vodka for keeping us hydrated all night.
Our Marketplace Coordinators; Sandy Reed & Mare Schelz for organizing the vendors, creating the best lay out yet, and ensuring that all our artists had a great experience.
Our Silent Auction Coordinator; Anna Ruder for nearly doubling our net revenue and building a greater community through donation acquisition.
Our Front Door Hosts; Roger White, Jennifer Scalley, & Genna Dynice for welcoming and taming the crowd.
Our VIP Table Servers; Phoebe Schaab & Fiona Lintner for your ease, flexibility, and welcoming spirit.
Our VIP Host; Chelsea Callicott for always making people feel welcome and “seen.”
Our Live Auction Coordinator; Kellen Bateham for your confidence in organizing our garment watchers and ensuring they did their job.
Our Display Diva; Erin Diamond for your creative and eye-catching displays. Thank you for getting the word out to our audience!
…and of our course our fearless guides and cheerleaders; Amy Anderson, Karen Holm, & Allison Murphy for your beautiful collaboration and hundreds of hours that you pour into this event.
Friends, acquaintances, and at times strangers often remind me, that the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show is their favorite event of the year. People of all ages love the energy, art, and message of the evening. However, many of those same people don’t realize that Rubbish Renewed is a fundraising event for REALMS Magnet School and supports the unique programing that makes REALMS a place where rigor, relevance, and relationships intersect.
Put the Needle on the Record
Designer: Mayra Stearns
Corporate Meeting on the Rocks
Designer: Karen Holm
Natural Edge Furniture
Designer: Kassy Windus
Mt. Bachelor
Snowstorm Diva
The Ventilator Designer: MAURICE
ReStore Sublimity
Playing it Safe
Designer: Kelly Powell
Just 5 days until the Rubbish Renewed garment design submission deadline, and entries are beginning to roll in. It’s not how far along my garment is or isn’t that usually keeps me from submitting early, it’s the name. I’m not sure what makes that so hard for me, or even why it’s important, but somehow I always find coming up with the perfect name a barrier to submission.
I think it stems from my childhood. Every time my dad, an expert in native arts, would complete a new book, our family would spend hours sitting around the dinner table brainstorming titles. We usually started with serious ideas then quickly digressed into puns or silly names only loosely connected. In the end, the publisher rarely used our creative titles, but instead named the book something dry and what we thought, insignificant. I digress . . .
This year I’m submitting early, and that is, today. I’m ready with photos of completed sections of the garment showing how I’m manipulating materials, and since I’m not finished, clear sketches of the front and back. I have a name (even if not perfect), and a short written description (3-5 sentences) of my piece -materials, inspiration, and connection to the mission. All I have to do is fill out the online application, pay my $20 submission fee using the Paypal link, and email my photos to rubbishrenewed@gmail.com. Now I can spend my spare moments this week working on the garment, not on stressing about the submission deadline.
Today we bring back our Behind the Scene Designer Series we started last season, and this time it’s a talented 12 year old! I first met Olivia at the December photo shoot before our 2014 Show. Then a focused 5th grader she came to us dialed as a designer and poised to show her talent on the runway. Last year I lamented that Olivia didn’t submit, until I found out she was already working on her piece for the following year! Talk about a role model for planning ahead!
The Behind the Scene Designer Series celebrates the trash fashion that IS the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show. Without it, there would be no event. Each designer brings his or her unique passion, inspiration, and creativity, but no matter their differences, a common bond lingers: transforming trash, inspiring community for a sustainable earth.
Designer & Model: Olivia Barnes
Materials: Bicycle refuse
Photo: Tambi Lane Photography
RR: What do you do in real life when you’re not designing and creating trash fashion?
OB: Fencing, school (7th grader), and cupcake baking
RR: How did you get started as a trash fashion designer?
OB: I studied all of the water around the world in elementary school and I got inspired to do something about it.
RR: What inspires your creations?
OB: I was inspired by my dads biking and I realized that there was a lot of things that were wasted. There were broken parts that just got thrown away. I decided to make something amazing out of that.
RR: What is your current goal as a Trash Fashion Designer?
OB: My next step is to enter the fashion show this year, and end goal is to inspire, and make known the problems about trash.
RR: What is else should we know about you?
OB: I love to design, model and help the environment. I love the feeling of showing people what I have made that I spent time on, and it definitely pays off. I also love to get creative with trash and help put better use to the garbage around the world!
T-Time
Designer & Model: Lily McNabb
Materials: Tea bag wrappers
Inspiring students rewards all of us. As a teacher, seeing students create a goal, persevere through challenges and meet that goal, is the best. And when that goal includes taking care of the planet, it’s even better. I’ve had a chance to teach, mentor, assist, problem solve, and push students each year to enter in the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show. Many life skills come out of this experience and the 2015 Gallery shares the fruits of this labor. Thanks for all the determination, resilience, and follow-through shown by these student designers. We can’t wait to see what they bring this year.
True Contours
Designer: Karen Holm
Materials: slide sleeves & topo maps
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