Category Archives: Trash Fashion

Trash Fashion 2.0 – 2023 Adult Garment Gallery Posted

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With our first Rubbish Renewed event after a 2-year pause, we worried about getting enough of the high quality garment submissions that Rubbish Renewed was accustom to. However, what emerged was Trash Fashion 2.0! It turns out that designers’ ideas peculated during the pause, then exploded onto the runway. Extraordinary material manipulation, unique designs, and models showcasing it all. Enjoy exploring the diverse photos in the 2023 Adult Garment Gallery from Kimberly Teichrow Photography, Joe Kline, Deb Quinlan, Paula Bullwinkel, and Melissa Dholakia.

2023 Adult Garment Gallery

Enjoy the second in our gallery series with the 2023 Adult Garment Gallery!

Business Challenge Gallery coming soon. Check out the 2023 Student Garment Gallery.

It’s About Time – 2023 Student Garment Gallery Posted

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Suddenly, it’s the end of October! Fall is the time my Rubbish Renewed brain kicks in. It’s the time designers, show goers, and art teachers start to connect, and it’s the time to post the 2023 Show Galleries!

2023 Student Garment Gallery

Rubbish Renewed 2023 had a diverse team of photographers. Thanks to Kimberly Teichrow Photography, Paula Bullwinkel, Deb Quinlan, Joe Kline, and Melissa Dholakia for the incredible images you’ll find in our galleries.

Enjoy the first of the series with the 2023 Student Garment Gallery!

Adult Garment Gallery and Business Challenge Gallery coming soon!

Best Auction Ever!

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The 6 stunning items auctioned this year raised more than $4000!

Each year more designers than we have space for offer up their trash fashion pieces for auction. These designers’ strong belief in the Rubbish Renewed sustainable community mission, and the desire to support education, inspires. We choose to auction meticulously constructed pieces that are wearable or displayable. Thank you to these generous and talented designers for their spectacular support!

Designer DeeDee Johnson, Chandalicious, Model Anna Rohrer – reclaimed gym equipment wipes, landscape tubing, chandelier beads from Restore trash. (Photo Left: Deb Quinlan; Photo Center: Paula Bullwinkel; Photo Right: Melissa Barnes Dhalokia)

Designer Carolyn Parker, Leather Leftovers, Model Aliyah Boelter – Discarded leather scraps and thrifted items. (Photo Left: Paula Bullwinkel; Photos Center and Right: Kimberly Teichrow)

Martha Campbell, North for the Winter, Model Caleb Campbell – discarded pop-up tent canopy, upcycled blanket. (Photo Left: Kimberly Teichrow; Photo Center: Melissa Barnes Dhalokia; Photo Right: Paula Bullwinkel)

Designer Heidi Lamb, Stained Glass Butterfly, Model Kristin Chandler – Vinyl coated nylon, plastic plexiglass, paint. (Photos Left and Center: Kimberly Teichrow; Photo Right: Deb Quinlan)

Designers Tiina McDermott and Zoey Lane, Walk in Beauty, Model Jacqui Warren – second hand rug, fur, and motocross rubber. (Photo Left: Kimberly Teichrow; Photo Center: Deb Quinlan; Photo Right: Paula Bullwinkel)

Designer Karen Holm, Spinnaglider, Model Julia Walker – sail maker spinnaker drop ends, decommissioned para-glider. (Photo Left: Kimberly Teichrow; Photos Center and Right: Paula Bullwinkel)

The Garments are the Show! Peak at the Portraits

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Photos by Kimberly Teichrow Photography

The “models” bring the trash fashion garments to life that local designers from elementary students to adults create and showcase on the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show runway. After a 2 year pandemic pause the 2023 event blew our minds! On Saturday, May 20th, 50 trash fashion pieces graced Flip Flop Sounds stunning runway, highlighting waste from plastic produce bags to blinds, slides, and medical waste. 26 were student designed garments and 24 were designed by adults including 8 Businesses.

Thanks to a team of photographers, we’ll be posting a variety of photos over the next few weeks (including galleries), that capture the story and the details of all the pieces. Get a taste of the artistry through Kimberly Teichrow’s portraits, a stunning new addition this year! You can go to Kimberly’s Rubbish Renewed 2023 Proofs to access all her stunning photos for purchase.

Designers: Nora Sites & Sam Press, Amity Creek
Designer: Nevaeh Bennett, Realms MS
Designer: Kaia Chopra, Summit HS
Designer: Heidi Lamb, Eastlake Framing Business Challenge

Thank You Bend!

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What an amazing night at the Pavilion on Saturday May 20th where the Bend community raised the roof for the revival of the Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show! Thunderstorms and downpours created a dramatic backdrop to this festive fashion-forward event. One fan raved, “The Met Gala has nothing on Rubbish Renewed!” The evening raised more than $20,000 for Realms Schools to continue the vision to foster scholarship, strengthen community, and inspire stewardship through active learning.

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!

Designer/Model: Holland Rustand Photo: Paula Bullwinkel

And the Business Challenge Winner is…

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……Wait for it…… 8 Businesses competed in Saturday night’s Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show Business Challenge, all creating masterpieces from their Business’ trash to showcase their sustainable practices and vie for the Coveted Trash Trophy! Aloha Blinds & Designs, Gear Fix, Ida’s Cupcakes, ReStore, Tiina and Zoey Designs, Lonza, Humm Kombucha, and Eastlake Framing all hit the runway for some friendly competition.

And the winner is…Aloha Blinds & Design!

Business Challenge Winner Aloha Blinds & Design. Photos by: Deb Quinlan

More photos to come soon!!!!

1 Day Away! Business Challenge Sneak Peak

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Excitement is building for the The Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show Business Challenge competition just 1 day away! 8 businesses dedicated to sustainable practices, are coming together to celebrate sustainability, support Realms education, and compete for the Coveted Trash Trophy!

Years of passing on the Coveted Trash Trophy, like the Stanley Cup, is over. New this year is the laminate version, ready for the winning Business to keep!

Back for the competition are ReStore, who have competed in every Business Challenge! Lonza, for their 3rd Business Challenge, and Gear Fix, coming back for a 3rd after a many year pause!

Other returning businesses are Humm Kombucha and Ida’s Cupcakes, both for their 2nd year. And Organic Transfusion, the Tiina and Zoey team, who have graced the runway many times!

And joining this seasoned crew of Business Challenge participants for their first time are Aloha Blinds & Designs, and Eastlake Framing!

Bring your friends and your voting block to support your pick for the Coveted Trash Trophy!

May 20th at the Pavilion doors at 5:30pm! Get your tickets linked Here!

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!

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS or use the drop down menu or button at the top!

10 Days to Runway Submission Deadline on April 20th!

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Runway submissions are starting to come in!  Peak at some of the unusual materials designers are using for their unique garments.

Devon Lizza creating ombré with can strips. DeeDee Johnson transforming wipes into feathers.

We need your trash fashion creation this season!

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

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.

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.