Happy Earth Day! Carmen Miranda Design by Remixa Plastique, photo by Michael Cline The Seattle RE Store’s two sold-out Trash Fashion Shows were truly trashtastic: twenty nine designers/design teams with twenty one models presented over thirty four ensembles made … Continue reading →
Last weekend, Olympia Dumpster Divers traveled up north to see the Seattle RE Store’s Recycled Art Show at the Blowing Sands Gallery in Ballard. You can read a really good recap of that show HERE and see pics from the … Continue reading →
cocktail dress made of fruitcake, shortbread, and tea tins: Move, Shift by Jane Grafton of Tinker’s Damn Maybe its all the RuPaul’s Drag Race and the fabulous and opinionated Tom and Lorenzo we have been indulging in lately, but we … Continue reading →
It’s baaaaaaaacccccccckkk! The Seattle RE Store’s Recycled Art Show is happening at Blowing Sands Gallery in Ballard April 9 – May 7, 2011; the Trash Fashion Show will be at the New York Fashion Academy in Ballard on Saturday, April … Continue reading →
We here at Olympia Dumpster Divers would like to wish everyone a Trash Free New Year while sharing some of our favorite trash blogs: That trashy Little Shiva got 86’d at the Centre Pompidou for wearing this dress and mask … Continue reading →
Garbage never looked so good: Rayona Visqueen (Robin Worley) wears her Trash Gyre Gown while hosting the Seattle RE Store Trash Fashion Show at NYFA Seattle RE Store’s recycled art juried show at the Blowing Sands/Laura Frost Fine Arts … Continue reading →
Our upcycle artist friends Stuart Gullstrand and Russ Morgan of Just A Rumor art studio aren’t trashy bag queens; they are spokesmodels for the Trash Fashion Show happening this Saturday, March 17, at the New York Fashion Academy in Seattle; … Continue reading →
Go Green repurposed plastic bag art doll by Ruby Re-Usable We here at Olympia Dumpster Divers believe in going green everyday, of course, but on this day when (almost) everyone is into the wearing of the green (or something … Continue reading →
Tomorrow is Halloween, and Ruby still has not finished her costume; instead, she is watching Project Runway and wishing that the weather here in the Pacific Northwest was conducive to wearing dresses made from newspapers (dream on, and stick to … Continue reading →
Ruby has been working on a white trash/repurposed plastic bag dress, trying to get it done for J2F Thankfully, there is still time to enter Portland’s Junk to Funk Recycled Fashion Show Contest; Trashion Edutainment for the Masses deadline is … Continue reading →
