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!
The Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show Fundraiser is more than a fashion show! It is a fun, fundraising night out, where every aspect of the evening is focused on sustainability, innovation, and design.
One unique aspect, the Rubbish Renewed Marketplace, is currently accepting Marketplace Applications for the 2017 event.
The Marketplace features 10 local artists selling re-fashioned, trash-fashioned or sustainability-focused products. The Marketplace is an opportunity for local artists to sell and “market” their work to a large audience (1,000+) who recognize the value of sustainable fashion, art, and design. The Marketplace will be open during both shows from 5:00-10:00pm.
Spend your night with other creative, conscious individuals celebrating art, fashion, and design, while raising money for an innovative public school, REALMS Magnet School. Get here when the doors open, so you have time to shop at our local Marketplace and silent auction.
On Thursday, January 12th, the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show Fundraiser returns for the 7th annual at the Midtown Ballroom in Bend, Oregon.
PHOTOS: Heaven McArthur (www.heavenmcarthur.com)
Mock up drawing from student submission
The Rubbish Renewed garment submission deadline has come and gone and we were blown away by the quality and quantity of submissions this year! The adult garment slots filled up with the most diverse designs yet. And we had almost 50 student submissions from 10 schools for only 20ish student spots. Decisions were tough for the jury, but found sticking to the criteria the way to narrow the field:
Material manipulation from student submission
Every design met at least 2 of these criteria, but the ones that made the cut, focused on all.
Designer: Bend Community Materials: tin can lids, 1950’s stained curtains
Looking at trash facts is mind-boggling. Each year at this time I peruse the internet for waste data to share with the Bend community. The goal is to reignite sustainable practices in ALL of us. For me, complacency sets in as the year rolls on. When I reconsider a pledge each year I’m empowered to act, focusing my sustainability efforts.
The first year of Rubbish Renewed I pledged to recycle the toilet paper tube. And since then, I have diligently complied. The next year, I upped my composting efforts through making a pledge. To this day, I still meet this goal.
There is something about the act of making a pledge and watching it publicly displayed walking down the runway that motivates; it helps hold me accountable. This year I’m using a thermos to capture the extra water I heat for tea. Now, in winter, as the day wears on, I rejuvenate my hot beverage with captured energy. I’ll make a pledge today at Rescue Collective (our hosts for the Rubbish Renewed Community Garment creation) to change a habit and lower my impact on the planet!
Designer: The Bend Community
Materials: Bicycle Tubes, scrap plether
The Rubbish Renewed Community Garment offers a place to take a personal step towards walking more lightly on the planet. What will you do to generate less waste? Consume less? Ask yourself, “What one action can I take to lower my impact on the planet?” Make a pledge. Start today.
You can help create the 2015/16 Community Garment at the Rubbish Renewed table at December’s First Friday (December 4th) at Rescue Collective, (910 NW Harriman St Suite 150).
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
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!
Edmond Newton & Candice Cuoco use keyboard keys, wire, and mouse pads.
Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show 