What do you do at the end of a garbage heap of a year? You turn that trash into treasure, of course. Now in its seventh year, Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show tasks local artists, designers and makers to create wearable art from stuff that might have otherwise been thrown away. Think dresses made from […]
Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show
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thursday 14 Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show RECYCLED BENEFIT—Local businesses and students have crafted together mixes of materials to create the latest trends that will adorn the runway and help raise some cash for REALMS Charter School. Ninety percent of the garment is made from trash and old clothes repurposed into new garments. 5 pm. […]
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One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Outfit
Rubbish Renewed Eco Fashion Show turns five
The rules are simple for Bend’s Rubbish Renewed Fashion Show, a trash-to-treasure design contest and benefit for Rimrock Expeditionary Alternative Learning Middle School (REALMS): use garbage. Using repurposed materials, students, alongside amateur and professional designers, are asked to create runway quality outfits in the style of “Project Runway’s” unconventional materials challenges. Entries are labeled Trash-fashion […]
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Wait, Wait! Don’t Throw That Out!
Fashion gets trashed in fourth Rubbish Renewed Showcase
Jacobim Mugatu’s final runway campaign in Zoolander appears to be mostly constructed from slick garbage bags, an in-the-gutter look that is unlikely—except when it is not. Enter stage left: Bend’s Rubbish Renewed trash fashion show. “My favorite part is the innovation,” said show founder Amy Anderson. “People take everyday materials and transform them, leaving you […]