Category Archives: Trash Fashion

NEW DATE: Thursday, January 16th, 2014

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This winter’s Rubbish Renewed Eco-Fashion Show Thursday, January 16th, 2014

With the loss of the Century Center as an indoor event venue, Rubbish Renewed set out, last spring, on a quest for a new space.  We explored dozens of spots, all with different assets and challenges.  Although not quite ready to reveal our decision, we have narrowed our search to several intriguing locations.  This exciting announcement is imminent.

The venue search has created the opportunity for us to try a less hectic time that we always wondered about.  January16th has many of the desirable aspects of our December date.  We are holding onto our coveted, winter Thursday; late enough in the week for a good party, but doesn’t conflict with weekend getaways.  Our pre-show photo shoot will happen again with a chance for a sneak peak prior to the event (also to be revealed soon).

A January date offers new prospects too.  Later in the winter allows artists more time creating.  For me, I loathe to be inside during the summer and fall, when I need to be starting my garments.  As the weather changes the sewing cave calls.  Artists often have numerous opportunities at the holidays to showcase their wares; January opens up new timing in an often-slow month.  January is also a lull in “our” social calendar, a time when a festive, fashion forward affair will entice the community out to play.

So, take a breath. Enjoy the extra time.  And look forward to our upcoming venue announcement.  And for Artist, Business Challenge prospects, and Marketplace vendors, paperwork will be posted Monday, October 14th on our blog under the submission forms tab.

Save the date!  Thursday, January 16th, 2014

A Sneak Peak! | Rubbish Renewed

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On Saturday, November 17th, a star-studded cast of garments arrived to Studio 3 to make their debut in front of the lights and cameras.  Captured perfectly by Tambi Lane Photography, the garments, designers, and models filled the room and held the audience captive for an entire evening.  We hope the innovation and creativity of these designers inspires you to come out next Thursday evening, December 6th to the Century Center, to witness more fantastic fashion in the real show.

Designer: Karlin Hedin

Designer & Model: Olivia McGean

Designer & Model: Paris Draheim

The Coveted Trash Trophy

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Panambi Opazo Elliot with the Trash Trophy

Which business will win the coveted trash trophy this year?

Last December at the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show, we featured our first ever Business Challenge.  6 businesses showcased their creativity and dedication to sustainability parading their waste along the runway.  The competition between ReStore, Wabi Sabi, the Environmental Center, Cuppa Yo, UtilituSEW and the Horned Hand ended in a tight race.  In the end Panambi’s vivacious Cuppa Yo piece prevailed to win the first ever coveted trash trophy!

This year we will feature 8 businesses. ReStore and Wabi Sabi return to the competition, with the Workhouse, Spa-W, Barrio, Rescue, Sounds Fast, and Strictly Organic ready for the challenge.

Who will be the winner this year?  Come and cast your ballot, it’s the audience who decides.

Fashion Show Preview Shoot

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Join us on Saturday, November 17th from 5-9pm for our Fashion Show Preview Photo Shoot at Studio 3!  50 SE Scott Street; Suite #1, Bend.

 

Students in Rubbish Renewed 2011

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Check out the burgeoning designers that graced our runway last year!  Middle school students and high school students showcased creative thought-provoking designs in the 2011 show.  Some used Rubbish Renewed to showcase their talents, while others used Rubbish Renewed as an opportunity to learn a new skill.

Through the new Mentorship Program with Allison Murphy of UtilituSEW, students used Wednesday afternoons to execute and implement their designs.   How to install a zipper, pleats, and thread a bobbin were some of the skills they learned.  Look for even more students in 2012 show.

Photos:  Paula Bullwinkle

“The Cat’s Meow” designed by Kaci Alderin, 6th grader and modeled by Taylor Alderin, 9th grader

“All Decked Out” designed by Casey Matthews; 6th grader and modeled by Ginger Mensing; 6th grader

Marina Eitel; an 8th grader (second from left) designed her “Sugar Loaded Sweet-Tooth” dress, fashioned from candy wrappers and other packaging materials.

Rubbish Renewed at the Bend Fall Festival

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Fall Fest Mainstage Runway

Paris in Allison Murphy’s Kiddy Pool Dress. Photo by Tambi Lane

Amazing day at the Bend Fall Festival!  Kids and adults alike, made pledges for a sustainable earth in tyvek “paper-cut”  snowflakes for the Rubbish Renewed Community Garment. And six garments from the 2011 Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show were showcased on the main stage in a runway snapshot of talented clothing artists.

Olivia creating an ornament for the Community Garment. Photo by Karen Holm

If  you didn’t make it today, or even if you did, come out tomorrow (Sunday) for another day of fashion forward fun.  We’ll be on the main stage at 2:30 and our booth is open from 11-6pm.  Come create an ornament to symbolize your pledge for action and help spread the message on December 6th at the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show, making a community shift for a better more environmentally conscious world.

Create the 2012 Community Garment

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Designer: Karen Holm

How would you react to a friend  wearing a paper grocery-bag couture dress adorned with trash ornaments on a runway?  In 2010 this fashion-forward piece graced our runway, making an aesthetic statement for the environment. Conscientious residents of Bend created the Community Garment, making their often unconscious choices conscious by pledging to reduce their consumption and waste.  In 2011, we were inspired by the sterile hospital dressing that protects surgical instruments and is later tossed into our landfills.

Designer: Karen Holm

These are the types of fashion statements that don’t cost a lot of money, but move down the runway delivering a provocative message;  A clear message to rethink waste, our habits, and to decrease our impact on the planet.

This weekend Rubbish Renewed invites YOU to come out, rethink your habits, and make a pledge to decrease your consumption and waste.  Join us at Bend’s downtown Fall Festival to create the 2012 Community Garment. Find the Rubbish Renewed crew near the junction of Oregon & Wall in downtown Bend 11-5pm Saturday & Sunday.

My Home Town Inspiration

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This week we solidified the date for this year’s Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show – December 6th!  With this in place, my trash-fashion-sense soared.  Suddenly surrounded by bicycle tubes, discarded zippers, old tape measures, and metal screen scraps . . . I can’t stop thinking about new designs.

Then today, in my inbox, I received an invite for a Trash-Fashion Show this Sunday in my old “home town,” Lopez Island.  Check out the poster.  Here’s to hoping some of you can make it,  but if not, I’ll post some inspirational photos next week.

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Lopez Island is a role model in sustainability. Whether keeping items out of the landfill or recycle bin, enriching the community with local food, providing access to housing, or teaching students about sustainable farming, Lopez, you’re the best!

Business Challenge Winner! | Rubbish Renewed

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Congratulations to Panambi Elliott who designed this show-stopping number,  right down to the shoes from Cuppa Yo’s waste.  Elliott collected discarded yogurt cups and spoons from the trash, hand-cut the waste, and then fashioned it into the fabulous garment shown below.  Elliott’s design was one of six “Business Challenge” entries and won the first ever “Business Challenge” Award, decided by an audience vote. 

Photos:  Panambi Elliott


trash hand-cut by ElliottRunway Photos:  Paula Bullwinkle

designed by Panambi Elliot

Create the 2011 Community Garment

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2010 Community Garment, created during First Friday last year.

I love this time of year!  More time with family, friends, holiday parties, and the 2nd annual Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show is upon us; just 10 days away.  Along with the season’s merrymaking, we can not ignore our increased production of holiday trash. The facts about holiday waste are staggering…

  • From Thanksgiving to New Years Day, household waste increases by more than 25%. Added food waste, shopping bags, packaging, wrapping paper, bows and ribbons – it all adds up to an additional 1 million tons a week to our landfills. (EPA and Use Less Stuff)
  • In the U.S., annual trash from gift-wrap and shopping bags totals 4 million tons. (Use Less Stuff)

We believe in the power to educate, change, and inspire and want to invite you to come out on Friday night (December 2nd), during the First Friday festivities, to create the 2011 Community Garment.   To have a hand in this “show-stopping” number, stop by TBD Loft (upstairs at 856 NW Bond Street), and make a pledge to reduce your consumption and waste this season and for a lifetime.