Recycled Fashion

If you were posed with the challenge to make a runway-quality outfit out of trash, what would you make? The possibilities are endless. What materials might you use, how would you assemble your masterpiece, and what style might you choose? Would you use garbage bags? Soda cans, soda can tabs, beer caps, bicycle tubes, flour sacs, coffee filters, newspaper, magazines, CDs, metal scraps, or how about VHS tape? What would you do with this?

Following a community-wide effort to pick up litter alongside Methow Valley roads, Confluence's Trashion Show last night spotlighted diverse and eclectic fashion created using road-side garbage and would-be-waste. More than 150 people turned up for the event. The high school art class spent countless hours fabricating outfits. Local businesses sponsored designers, and Blue Star Coffee Roasters sponsored the People's Choice Award. Cash prizes were given to the top 3 contestants.

Here is some of the fashion that walked the runway:

Recycling can be so much fun!