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Garbage can be gorgeous, as evidenced by Saturday’s night’s “Haute Trash” fashion

Published 7:00 am Monday, September 24, 2012

Tarps and inner tubes make for fine fashion.
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Tarps and inner tubes make for fine fashion.
Tarps and inner tubes make for fine fashion.
Trash fashionistas.
More onlookers.
Even the audience got in on the fashion-ing.
Best hat EVER.
Elizabethan style formed of construction debris.
Gone with the Wind and Rain is made of ... discarded umbrellas.
Two wrongs sometimes do make a right.
He wears short shorts.
Trust her. She's a (hot) doctor.
Spanky in the Celtic Keyboard - made of keyboard keys and recycled PC parts.
The basis of this dress? Erosion netting.
Nothing better than a super-cute welcoming committee.
Done with camping? Here's an alternative idea for all that gear.
Host Rayona Visqueen wears a dress made of an air mattress (once slept on by Dwight from The Office) and decorated with nasty plastic plucked from the shores of Kanali Beach in Hawaii.
The U-District's Green Chair Project put together this lovely bustier dress made of screens and discarded window dressings.
Spanky is stylin' in rice bag cargo pants and shirt.
Everyone loves trash.
Designer June Park models a fresh style - made of used dryer sheets and the plastic mesh bags oranges come in.
CAUTION! hot.
King Size Bed Cover Girl: CAUTION! models a dress made of the packaging designer Chako San's new king-size mattress came wrapped in.
PBR (Princess Betsy Ross - duh!) models a creation fashioned from 58 cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon and material salvaged from the trash can at the Pt. Townsend Boy Scouts of America spaghetti feed.
A packed house.

Garbage can be gorgeous, as evidenced by Saturday’s night’s “Haute Trash” fashion show at the New York Fashion Academy in Ballard. Sponsored by Seattle’s recycling gurus at the ReStore, local designers fashioned incredible outfits out of stuff the rest of us just throw away. You won’t believe some of the things they came up with.Published on April 20, 2010

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