The Seattle ReStore Recycled Art and Fashion Show with Haute Trash will be happening at the New York Fashion Academy in Ballard (Seattle) on Friday, April 17, 2009, featuring the hottest trashionistas in the west, including incredibly cool The Tollefson Plaza Ice Queen by Mary K Johnson and Lynn Di Nino  (photo by John Carlton)

The Tollefson Plaza Ice Queen is named after the blunderous city government investment of a downtown Tacoma all-concrete plaza.  The two pigeons gracing her shoulders are the only signs of life, ever, in this public space, even in the warmth of summer.  This costume is made of cardboard and Tacoma News Tribune newspaper end rolls,  with our overzealous eye on the budget, just like the design of the plaza itself.  The Tollefson Queen looks like her namesake: conspicuous, cumbersome, frigid, and all dressed up with no place to go. If she dances across the plaza, perhaps she will act as a siren, luring passerby into the cold sea of concrete for a lonesome dance…