A New kind of Trend CycleSo with Christmas over and New Year well on its way I was thinking about all the rubbish that this festive season produces. Wrapping paper, tin foil from those brandy rich mince pies, glass bottles (probably way more than you thought would end up in the recycling bin!) & a vast array of other packaging plastics and bits.
This the got me thinking about fashion and rubbish, then recycling. A subject that I decided to tackle in an editorial style when at University, I called it, 'A New Kind of Trend Cycle.' It looked at recycling old fashion & coming up with a sustainable idea - and how in reality fashion's come and go & then they come again. So using that theory in a shorter cycle of life and re-wearing clothes differently, customizing them to change them or just begging and borrowing what you could. The idea was never to buy a new piece of clothing, making the notion perfectly sustainable. I loved doing this shoot and all the clothes were either borrowed, stolen (no really - but only from other peoples wardrobes!) or from charity shops. In some way of another each item in the shoot was recycled or being used again. I have put the images below for your viewing!
Trash Trash and more Trash
So along the same lines I wanted to see what else the fashion industry had to offer in terms of either recycling or rubbish. Now this is not a new thing in the slightest and an idea that has been floating around for some time but I just wanted to look at some of the best examples the internet (thanks Google!) could find on this subject. It seems a lot of info is not recent therefore designers are either coming up with a fantastic collection of Garbage Gala clothing or (an more likely!) have the put the idea to rest and concentrate on better things. When people start getting all concerned about global warming again (or this credit crunch really does hit rock bottom) then maybe the rubbish will be yet again recycled on the catwalk. I decided to include a few bits of the interesting stuff I did find though......just in case you have no alternative but to search through your next door neighbors bin and make your clothes from it.
http://www.hautetrash.org/ it seems one of the first fashion trash shows was in fact in 1983, long before I thought those Gods of fashion had dared even think about using your old tin cans!
1) Val Hunt with her tin can dress
2) Denise Van Outen and Levi in a more recent November 08 show.....
3) A great little find and really interesting article @ http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/06/24/andrew-crews-reinterpreting-second-hand/
