Category Archives: Fashion Show

Business Challenge Sneak Peak – Who will get your Vote?

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For our 13th year and our 12th Business Challenge we have 7 sustainably-minded, local businesses competing for the 2025 Rubbish Renewed’s Coveted Trash Trophy! Each year a group of businesses come together to uplift our collective actions to make a better world, and have some friendly competition with the winner decided by the night’s audiences. Bring your friends and your voting block, to support your pick to win the The Rubbish Renewed Business Challenge this Saturday, May 10th!

Meet Betty. The vintage scrap laminate used to create the 2025 Coveted Trash Trophy! Thank you Rob Walker for another one-of-a-kind keepsake for our Saturday night winner!

Returning as the most consistent Business Challenge competitor and our 2025 Presenting Sponsor, ReStore is competing in its 12th Business Challenge (winner in 2018). Designers DeeDee Johnson and Lisa Mcluskie, are going big this year. This Restore creature sees everything with a different lens. Walk the floor of the store any day of the week and you too can imagine a whole new world.

Both back for their 5th Business Challenge competition Gear Fix and Lonza are stepping up! Gear Fix, the 2024 Coveted Trash Trophy winner, has designer Nico Brilmyer back leading a team of colleagues Kasey Boyd, and Kate Weatherholtz. With this dynamic design group we can expect the cosmic guardian of the wild, the Moss Mess Monster, to fight pollution to the extreme! Lonza is trying something new with material manipulation – crocheted plastic packaging, truly transforming plastic bags! We can’t wait to see what the seasoned Trash Fashion team, Nahi Ortiz, Thyia Scott, and Kari D’Angona, brings to life with this marvelous mermaid inspired piece.

Back to compete again from 2024 are Humm Kombucha and the Bend Anesthesiology Group. Humm Kombucha is in it’s 4th Business Challenge! New to Rubbish Renewed designers, Zhenya Cotita, Kevin Coneys, and Syd Becker, bring a fresh look to the Kombucha trash fashion scene with hairnets creating the softness of this Sugar Humm Fairy. For their 2nd Business Challenge, Bend Anesthesiology Group continues to change the medical waste stream. BAG is highlighting the sustainable work they do by using poly wrap destined for the landfill to create bags for new families in the Family Birthing Center. This garment, fashioned by prolific Rubbish Renewed designer Karen Holm, highlights the simple, clean, beauty our future could hold by lessening our impact on the planet.

Joining Rubbish Renewed for their first Business Challenge are DIYcave and ReCoHere. DIYcave has finally jumped into the Trash Fashion competition. Inspired by their deep appreciation for pollinators, creatives Mak Sales and Quentin Gooding, are manipulating material into something flamboyant. ReCoHere has been keeping us in the dark up until now. Their multi-layered piece will bring out masterful material manipulation while sending a message – These garments have a lot to say about consumerism, power, and how we can all do more even simply by what we choose to dress in each day.

Remember, bring your friends and your voting block, to support your pick to win the The Rubbish Renewed Business Challenge this Saturday, May 10th, at the Pavilion!

E-Bike and Mountain Bike Raffle at Rubbish Renewed!

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All of my professional career I commuted to work by bicycle. I still ride my 1986 Rock Hopper, a stout, pre-suspension mountain bike that I even rode, years ago, from Seattle to Bolivia. I must have more than 50,000 miles on it. It needs a 4th paint job. Bike commuting and biking in general are acts of inspiring community for a sustainable earth, the tag line for Rubbish Renewed.

This year, at the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show on May 10th, we are raffling 2 bikes donated by Bendr Cyclery! With only 160 maximum tickets being sold for each bike, you have great odds to win! One is an Aveton Level 1 e-bike valued at $1200. The other is a Fuji Adventure Mt Bike valued at $530. You can link to buy tickets now and don’t have to be present to win!

ALTHOUGH YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE THERE TO WIN, IT’S A LOT MORE FUN TO COME TO THE SHOW!

Rubbish Renewed Returning Features:

  • Electrifying trash fashion runway show with intermission (different garments each half)
  • Live auction of a select group of garments
  • Eco-marketplace of locally made, creative products
  • Interactive sustainable booths
  • Competitive Business Challenge
  • Local food and Drink
    • Food carts – The Bob, Bigfoot BBQ, The Pizza Cart
    • Slow Ride Mobile Bar – with beverages from: Willamette Valley Vineyards, Boneyard Beer, Avid Cider, Crater Lake Spirits, and Humm Kombucha
  • VIP Experience (special ticket)

New This Year:

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WE CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU AT THE RUBBISH RENEWED ECO FASHION SHOW ON MAY 10TH, AT THE PAVILION! DOORS AT 5:30.

The Juries Out

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The Garment Submission Deadline passed last Friday, April 4th at midnight. An exciting and stressful time for designers who hope to feature their artistic expression and personal statements about Transforming Trash, Inspiring Community for a Sustainable Earth on the Rubbish Renewed Runway.

This year we have more submissions than space available, with student designers from 17 Central Oregon Schools! These designers range in age from 3rd grade to a college sophomore. We have a wide array of adult submissions from several designers new to Central Oregon, a few designers back to Rubbish Renewed after a long absence, and some of our favorite material manipulator, trash fashion designers in the area.

You’ll see some of the traditional trash manipulated year after year on the runway – plastic bags, jeans, candy wrappers, drink cans, produce mesh, mailers… Some materials that are new this year to the Rubbish Renewed runway – political signs, retired chainsaw chaps, and raft parts salvaged from the Colorado Bridge wave cleanup…

Rubbish Renewed is just 1 month away! We can’t wait to see you for our 13th event and showcase designer creations that celebrate the actions we can take to elevate the sustainability of our Central Oregon communities.

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What Will You Create? Garment Submission Deadline April 4th!

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Just 2 weeks until the submission deadline at midnight on Friday, April 4th. Remember that you do not need to have your garment completed, but the further along you are, the easier it is for the jury to recognize your vision in your photos and artist renderings. Read the material guidelines carefully.  Here is the link to the Runway Submission Page. It doesn’t hurt to get your submission in early.

Check out these materials from a few designs that have started to roll in!

Submit your garment design in just 3 EASY STEPS to be considered for the 12th Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show on Saturday, May 10th

  1. Complete the Submission Form linked from the Runway Submission Page
  2. Pay Submission Fee
  3. Send 3 photos of your design

Complete the submission process by the deadline of midnight << Friday, April 4th >>

We can’t wait to see what you create!

The Green Room Magic

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Helping designers/models, especial the young ones, build confidence and recognize the value of their creation, while preparing the “frame” to highlight the art on the runway, are part of the magic of the green room created by the stylists who give their time.

2024 brought together 4 fabulous hair stylists from Badlands Hair Studio, Kiersten Rowles, Karl Yates, Jonae Schoen, and Lylly von Hurst. These stylists worked their magic quickly and creatively, with a focus on making each model and garment stand out. Kiersten, Karl, Jonae, and Lylly, as part of Badlands Hair Studio, are committed to the environment dedicated to fighting beauty waste and climate change. 

For the first time we had a student led makeup team. Holland Rhodes, a senior at Realms High, led the team of mostly high school makeup artists. Their rapport with the young designers/models from all over Central Oregon helped create a supportive experience for all.

Thank you to the fantastic stylists who created a fun, supportive atmosphere and fashioned the fabulous “frames” essential to a professional looking show!

Rubbish Renewed 2025 – Date announced!

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Mark your calendars for the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show May 10th, 2025

Bend’s coolest event celebrating sustainability, trash fashion, and local arts

Create and submit a garment

Support Local Schools

Rooted in a love of fashion, an appreciation of art and a passion for the planet, the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show fuses environmental responsibility, funky fashion and community.

Started in 2010 as a rogue fundraiser by a couple of teachers, it has turned into a Bend staple, a fashion-centered, sustainably run event that everyone in the community can enjoy.

The preparation and event encourage people to look at how much waste their lifestyles produce and inspires them to change habits that decrease their impact on the planet through small doable actions.

The Pavilion prepared for the start of the 2024 Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show

Get Inspired: 2024 Student Garment Gallery Posted

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My compost bin is full of fall leaves, political postcards riddle the recycling, and in my studio I’m wallowing in waste ready to get inspired for the coming trash fashion season! It’s time to spread sustainable creativity by posting the Student Rubbish Renewed Garment Gallery from the 2024 Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show.

Rubbish Renewed 2024 had a diverse team of photographers. Thanks again to Kimberly Teichrow Photography, Joe Kline Photography, and Melissa Barnes Dholakia for the incredible images you’ll find in our galleries.

Check out the 2024 Student Garment Gallery and look for more galleries and blog coming soon!

Rubbish Renewed-Trash Fashion video by Milan Anderson for The Obsidian

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This year we were lucky to have a young journalist, Milan Anderson, create a video piece on the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show for the Obsidian (the inaugural youth publication from the Future Journalists of America program). Milan, two-time winner of Bend Film’s Future Filmmaker Award and a 2024 Realms graduate off to film school, created this 7+ minute piece. Check it out, and see some trash fashion in motion, hear about our humble beginnings, and celebrate Bend’s talented youth.

Rubbish Renewed-Trash Fashion by Milan Anderson for The Obsidian

First Glimpse – Show Fashion Photos!

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Designers from 2nd grade to their 90’s created the unique trash fashion pieces that came to life on this year’s Rubbish Renewed runway. Materials from old single socks, farm refuse, net veggie bags, to an old garden hose were masterfully manipulate into sustainable style. Here is the first glimpse of a few fashion photos illuminating the brilliance of our trash fashion designer community!

Thanks to a skilled team of photographers, Kimberly Teichrow, Joe Kline, and Melissa Barnes Dholakia, we have a diverse set of images to tell the 2024 Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show story. More posts with photos to come soon including full galleries. Keep checking!

Photos by Kimberly Teichrow Photography

Check out Kimberly Teichrow’s full gallery of Rubbish Renewed portraits for purchase at Kimberly Teichrow’s 2024 Rubbish Renewed Proofs

Photos by Joe Kline Photography

Check out Joe Kline’s atmospheric images in his gallery of Rubbish Renewed photos for purchase at Joe Kline Rubbish Renewed Gallery 2024

Photos by Melissa Barnes Dholakia

Thank You 2024 Rubbish Renewed Sponsors!

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The Pavilion indoor/outdoor environment was the perfect setting for the 12th Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show! The weather was flawless, the crowd energized, the vibe celebratory, and the runway stunning! Bendites perused the sustainable marketplace, local beverages and food, and most prominently interacted with re-envisioning rubbish both on and off the runway.

Together we celebrated the creativity of students from 14 local schools (our greatest participation ever), Central Oregon adults, and businesses on the runway. Together we created the best fundraising and eco-elevating event in Bend! We couldn’t have done it without our sponsors!

If you’ve been to the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show, you know it takes a village to produce. So many parts come together to create this spectacular, sustainably-minded event. Cash sponsors support infrastructure (like venue rental) and in-kind sponsors bring items (like beverages) and skills (like hair styling) that we couldn’t create on our own.

THANK YOU to each of our sponsors for supporting the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show make an impact on creativity and sustainable vision in our forward-thinking community.

Aeternum  Designers: Bend Anesthesiology Group
Model: Holly Graham  Materials: Sterile “blue” polypropylene (#5 plastic) wrap
Photographer: Joe Kline

These sponsors belief in our mission helped bring Central Oregon a creative, inspiring, and sustainable fundraiser once again! Together we raised almost $20,000 for REALMS Schools continuing the vision to foster scholarship, strengthen community, and inspire stewardship through active learning.

Thank you!