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Category Archives: Trash Fashion
Students in Rubbish Renewed 2011
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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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
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
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.
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
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
Runway Photos: Paula Bullwinkle
Create the 2011 Community Garment
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.
Wear Rubbish and Get Rewarded
Auctioned last year
Wear your tie skirt
How about wearing “rubbish” and getting rewarded! At our second annual Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show we will honor those who wear outfits that are re-fashioned or trash-fashion with a free drink ticket. Don a piece purchased in our last year’s live auction and get into this year’s event for free! Finally, we hope you will join other courageous characters to strut your stuff in our audience runway walk. More than ever we believe transforming trash inspires community for a sustainable earth.
Skirt by Allison of Utilitu; dress by Karen Holm;
Photos by Tambi Lane Photography
Get Involved!
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Get Involved!
Save the date and come to the show or become more involved! The deadline for being a part of the event is NOVEMBER 10TH. Don’t miss out! Whether you are excited to share your fashion on the runway, promote your business and environmental practices, share and sell your creative gear in the marketplace, or support REALMS’ art education and sponsor the entire event; there are multiple ways to get involved. Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show is a fundraising event, hatched by two teachers, for the art program at REALMS Charter School. All of the information can be found in “pdf” files on the sidebar.
Contact http://www.rubbishrenewed@gmail.com or call 541-322-5323 for answers to your questions.
Created by the Bend Community at TBD Loft 2010
Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show 