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Designer Profile: Devon Lizza

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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
2018 Gum Wrappers

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?

Materials for this years creation!

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!

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Runway Submissions Due April 20th – What will you create?

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The Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show garment submission deadline is one month away! Designers, now is the time to start fabricating that unique creation you’ve been pondering. You may be still collecting trash, but get started!

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3 EASY STEPS to be considered for the 11th Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show on Saturday, May 20th…

Complete the submission process by the deadline << April 20th >>

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

GARMENTS SHOULD LIFT UP THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:.

  • Mission – Is your garment furthering the Rubbish Renewed Mission?  Does the description of your garment and piece communicate:  Transforming trash, inspiring community for a sustainable earth
  • Materials – Does your garment fit the trash fashion and/or re-fashion definitions?  Does your garment transform trash into fashion? Priority given to garments that truly keep items out of the landfill.
  • Design – Does your garment communicate a coherence in design, an innovative technique, unique aesthetics, and creative expression?
  • Construction – Do you demonstrate quality in construction?  Does your construction quality inspire long-term use?

Your garment doesn’t have to be complete to submit, but the further along you are, the easier it is for the jury to recognize your vision in your photos and artist renderings.

Calling All Creatives – Discover the Essence of your Rubbish!

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It’s that time of year in the Rubbish Renewed calendar to get inspired to design and construct! Rubbish Renewed is calling all creatives to find the inherent beauty in the trash around you. Delve into its unique characteristics: Is it stiff? Does it flow? Does it create volume on its own? How can it be attached? Discover the essence of the material and see the form emerge.

Things that are stiff and can create and maintain shape:

Things that are soft and can be sewn or woven:

Things that are small and can be cut up and tied, tacked, or glued:

Things that are small that can be rolled into beads or used whole and tied together:

New Venue – The Pavilion!

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The cats out of the bag – Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show will transform the Bend Pavilion! A new chapter. A new wave.

Rubbish Renewed has made the rounds of event venues in Bend. Our first 3 years, starting in 2010, we celebrated at the Century Center. They provided the perfect venue – huge open space, an energizing vibe, and few rules. That was old Bend. In 2013, the Century Center indoor venue was divided and repurposed into small businesses. The huge space gone, Rubbish Renewed set out to find another home.

Bend is lacking in large, indoor, open event venues. After countless failures we finally procured the Armory Gym down near the Old Mill. The location was ideal, close for walking, and dedicated parking. The Gym atmosphere, however, was hard to transform, and the military systems challenging to negotiate.

In 2015 we moved again and made our home for 5 years by converting the Midtown Ballroom into a mesmerizing setting. Look forward to a post highlighting the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show, years 6-10.

After 2 years of pandemic closures, it’s time for a Rubbish Renewed Revival! A huge, diverse space, open to the environment, brings opportunities . . . the Pavilion!

Celebrate Sustainable Practices – 2020 Business Challenge Posted

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Click here to access the 2020 Business Challenge Runway Gallery

Photo: Jazmine Turner Photography

As individual community members we have a responsibility to think about our choices and take actions to minimize our impact on the earth, but it is exponentially important for businesses to do the same. Poor waste management contributes to climate change, air pollution, and directly affects ecosystems and species. Reducing the carbon footprint of their products, creating initiatives to help employees reduce their impact, producing a climate conscious workplace, are all ways that businesses can step up their sustainability.

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

Each year a group of businesses come together to celebrate sustainability, support Realms education, and compete for the Coveted Trash Trophy.

Celebrate the 2020 Business Challenge Runway participants through the captivating photos of Jazmine Turner Photography’s Mindy J. Turner and SHE Photography’s Suzette Hibble!

Photo: SHE Photography

We’re Back! Date Announced

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New Season . . . Spring . . . Saturday, May 20th 2023!

The revival of Rubbish Renewed creates opportunities. One of these inspired a new season, Spring. Spring offers fresh venue ideas, novel designs, and more time for motivated student and adult designers to conceptualize and construct.

The design, creation, and application are a months-long process for designers to engage in and learn about waste, personal actions, design, creation skills, and determination, culminating in the professional feel of the show!

Just 4 months away. What will you create?

Save the Date: Saturday, May 20th 2023! Submission deadline one month before

Electrifying Trash Fashion – 2020 Adult Gallery Posted

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Click here to access the 2020 Adult Runway Gallery

Photo: SHE Photography
Photo: Jazmine Turner Photography

Rubbish Renewed has developed into a showcase for talented community artists. Many designers submit year after year inspired to up their game in sustainability, material manipulation, and style each event. Pieces tell a variety of stories like the challenges of medical waste, excessive packaging from our mail order and coffee on-the-go obsessions, and how to transform discards into truly wearable art.

Check out these electrifying trash fashion pieces on the 2020 runway through Jazmine Turner Photography’s Mindy J. Turner and SHE Photography’s Suzette Hibble’s compelling photos!

Who’s your favorite Rubbish Renewed Designer? What will they create for the 2023 Spring Show?

Photo: SHE Phototgraphy

Refresh and Re-imagine

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We’re back! Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show, one of the most forward thinking, eco-friendly, fundraising events to witness, is on track for a Spring Event. It did take another year, but this Rubbish Renewed Revival gives us the opportunity to refresh and re-imagine for the best show ever!

Photo: SHE Photography

With a Spring event on the horizon, I’ve started to gather materials and put my ideas down on paper. What about you?

There is a lot of work ahead to ready this event, but we are on our way!

Next week look for the 2020 Show Galleries with mesmerizing photos by Jazmine Turner Photography and SHE Photography.

And the Business Challenge Winner is . . .

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Penny Lash, with Penny Trash!!!

Designer Panambi Elliott does it again with her signature style, meticulously manipulating business waste, and brought to life on the runway by Leah Nagel.

 
 

Left Photo by: random Friend; Right Photo by: Rebecca Penny

 

Thank You Bend!

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I spend most of the evening behind the curtain. I get to feel the nerves of the young models before they take their first step, sending them onto the runway. And about a minute later, I get to experience their exhilaration when they step behind the curtain again. My favorite moment Saturday night was when 4th grade designer/model, Laila, supported each nervous model (students and adults alike) behind her, “it’s like a roller coaster. Before you go, you are so nervous, and once you are out there, it’s awesome!”

Thank you Bend for embracing the mission of the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show, “transforming trash, inspiring community for a sustainable earth,” and making our community such a great place to live!