CO-CHAIRS: LOUSANA CAMPAGNA AND PATRICIA INTIHAR EMCEES: SHANNON DOWLING AND JAMES SGAMBATI JUDGES: MARK NICHOLS, LINDSAY MASTERS, KELLY JOHNSTON, AND JOHN NORDGREN TECH/DJ: KIP BEELMAN PHOTOGRAPHER: MICHELLE TIMME OF TIMME PHOTO FEATURED ARTIST: SULO TURNER DISPLAYS: SAKAI SHOE PROJECT, ESTHER’S FABRICS, HANDS-ON ART ACTIVITY BY BARN FILM: “RAG PICKERS OF BAINBRIDGE ISLAND” BY LIESL CLARK VOLUNTEERS: DIANE LANDRY, WENDY JONES,JANE MARTIN, DAWN SNIDER, RACHEL KNUDSEN, MELONI COURTWAY AND SOFIA CAMPAGNA
Sponsors: IslandWood, Bainbridge Disposal, Jefferson Fine Homebuilders, Patti Shannon & Diane Sugden of Windermere Real Estate, Kitsap Bank In-Kind Sponsors: Sash Mercantile, Timme Photo, Esther's Fabrics, Eleven Winery, Hildebrand Cleaners,k Hildebrand Cleaners, Grounds for Change, Alchemy Goods, Blackbird Arts Partners: The Art Project (TAP), Bainbridge Performing Arts, Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network, and Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
Trashion Couture
1st Place “CONVERSATIONS 2018” Designer - Andrew Rovelstad Model- Charlotte Rovelstad 1) “Hey dude Check this out You really got to try it on.” 2) “It’s kind of boring –— cardboard, rolls of old paper and rusty metal? 1) “But there’s something about it—. The shape and form—kind of traditional, kind of sexy—definitely a party dress.” 2) “Cardboard treated like fabric?” 1) “It’s woven with tradition gives it order—and it bends to the forms of the body- 2) “Rope from a Tug Boat?” 1) “It from Dave Ullin’s tug boat– He is like the father of sustainability- Deconstruction Dave– all those tiny pieces of fiber collectively can pull a ship . I think we can learn something about community” 2) “And what’s with the jewelry—where did it come from? Kind of harsh for a formal evening dress—RUST???—” 1) “The contrast of iron oxide next to skin is kind of beautiful, maybe it says something about nature, how frail we are?” 2) “And then those poofy things on the sleeve, they look like old rolls of drawings.” 1) “Some gesture of history—” 2) “ehhhh: boring—but– they are loose and full of circles and flow with movement.” 1) “Interesting. Kind of like road-warrior going to the opera?” 2) “Maybe Eco-warrior? Really–You gotta try this on.” 1) “Screw the Opera—Let’s go dancing.” 2) “I sure hope it fits?”
2nd Place “THE DRESS OF A MILLION WORDS” ORIGAMI DRESS Designer - Hiromi Yoshinaga Model - Her daughter Nicoletta Only two simple materials were used to create this dress – paper and glue. She saw numerous numbers of old books and encyclopedias were discarded. She rescues and collects these books to give them a new purpose. Hiromi has done many small projects using book pages, however, this is her very first piece to submit in a show. Residing here on Bainbridge Island and with her Japanese roots, she felt blending both the Japanese culture with Western material was an appropriate collaboration for this project and to honor Japanese Americans on Bainbridge Island. Each book pages were torn out from books, cut by hand, and folded precisely in order to have all pieces fit and glued together. Her daughter Nicoletta is proudly wearing the dress. Her hair was carefully styled with origami book pages of flowers and intertwined with her natural long dark hair.
3rd Place “THE DARK SURROUNDS” Designer and model - McKayla SewNsew My second entry is created from a crocheted and woven variety of audio cables, obsolete computer cables, broken phone cords, orphan power cords, derelict electrical wire, old VHS tapes, elastic, wire, copper, plastic bags, cassette tapes, and defunct stereo cables. This dress is a stiff reality of the obstacles that we over come in life and the armor that each challenge we overcome inspires us to grow.
Trashion Committee Award “FUTURE TRASHION COUTURE” Designer - Stella Rae and Trine Targett Model - Stella Rae In this digital age, we are increasingly using the internet to order our goods ultimately ending up with weekly packaging material. Brown boxes, bubble wrap and plastics are associated with the delivery of our online purchases. When we do go to a brick and mortar store we also do not have a paperless or non plastic solutions yet. We strive towards a paperless society however mail order catalogues and paper advertising still inundate our mailboxes. For our Trashion design we were inspired to used the concept of shredding our junk mail in response to seeking more control of our privacy rights. We aimed to create a stylish futuristic outfit to express how these packaging materials exist in our daily lives. Our goal as a result of this project is to be more aware of bringing our reusable bags to the store, purchase less and consolidate where possible. Materials – Paper shopping bags, brown boxes, bubble wrap, gift wrap leftovers, can tops, bottle caps, bottled water, shredded catalogues and junk mail.
Student Award “MOVING FORWARDS” Designer - Olivia Vessenes Model - Her sister, Esme Vessenes Moving Forwards symbolizes the synthesis of classical culture and the culture of the near future. The style of the dress is inspired by ballet costume design. The materials used were grocery bags, a neighbor’s house paint, and packaging from a new couch the designer’s family purchased. Moving Forwards also symbolizes the designer’s hope for the near future. The dress uses materials that will continue to be easily available and conveys the hope for design with reused materials to be on the rise. Fundamentally, this outfit is about using our past experiences and culture to help build the future we all want to live in.
“DRAGON QUEEN” Designer - Michelle White Model - Her daughter, Carson “Drag On Queen” was created by Michelle White, worn by her daughter Carson, and has many meanings. This is where fantasy is inspired by reality. Where the mythic and mundane collide. The Dragon headpiece is made on a cardboard base from old packing boxes. Toilet paper rolls, an egg carton, plastic spoons, shredded brown paper, and juice pouches adorn the mask. The collar was made by quilling strips of magazine pages, gluing them to a cardboard base, and trimmed with folded tinfoil. It was influenced by the many ancient cultures Michelle and her youngest child have been studying lately, particularly the spectacular beaded collars of Africa, to represent the strong and resilient indigenous peoples. The outfit was constructed out of clear plastic bags, duct tape, juice pouches, bread bags, and torn paper parasols. Her nails were made by twisting magazine pages into points and covered with silver duct tape. The influence from one of the most feared mythical creatures is meant to give a nod to the braveness that lies within us all, glittering like the hide of a dragon. Carson wanted to celebrate the LGBQT community by getting her “Drag on”, as well. This outfit represents, above all, the modern day woman warrior. Fight for what you believe in and continue to Drag on, Queen, even when you are weary from the battle.
”BUBBLE SCRAP GOWN” Designers - HARPER FLYNN (9), JORIE COLEMAN (10), JASMINE BROOKS (7) Model - Harper Flynn This outfit is the culmination of a season’s worth of collaborative creative work sessions, made in the art program at the Boys and Girls Club. Inspired by the texture of bubble wrap and the opportunity for layering, Jorie, Harper, and Jasmine attached hundreds of pieces of scrap paper beneath the bubble wrap. The result is colorful and detailed, and shows off the beauty of cast-off materials and the by-products of the club’s art making. Leftover paper rescued from the recycling was used to create criss-cross straps in neon green. Leggings were created from soda rings. Finally, a handbag was created using green bubble wrap. This outfit reflects the designers interest in being resourceful, noticing interesting elements in materials that are usually considered waste, and an appreciation for color, playfulness, and fun shapes. Inspired by this project, other kids at the Boys and Girls Club have created their own outfits too, and through activities like this, we have developed a group appreciation for reusing and making use of all materials – from granola bar boxes to old play-doh tubs.
”MARSHALL STRAWBERRY FARMER” Designer - Jennifer Kakutani Model - Her daughter, Alita Kakutani Introducing the Marshall strawberry farmer, a Japanese girl wearing the latest in paper workwear. Her apron and hat are paper box pints as well as faux indigo dyed brown bags. She carries a basket sewn out of bailing twine with strawberries made from discarded wax. Hundreds of acres of Marshall strawberries once covered Bainbridge Island from the 1930’s and on. It was know as the tastiest, juiciest strawberry around. Bainbridge was famous for it. Now it’s at risk of extinction.
“RETRO SPRING” Designer and Model - Katelyn Ziegenhagen This outfit is modeled by its creator, Katelyn Ziegenhagen, an art student at Olympic College. Made from current event and modern fashion magazines, Retro Spring strives to emulate the classic feel of a vintage style dress while reusing new ideas and old paper. The dress lining is constructed with leftover shop towels and hot glue. Old books and magazines scavenged from “to be recycled” piles from libraries and books stores comprise the outer fabric. Discarded bottle caps act as buttons to bring the outfit together.
“SETALIY” Designer and Model - Annie Walsh This piece, called “Setaliy” is inspired by springtime. I’ve always loved the idea of taking trash and turning it into something wearable, so I wanted to make more of an everyday look. The raw materials used are newspapers, paint, glue, tape, plastic wrap, waterproof paper, string, soda can tabs, and an old notecard holder. To make the top I wrapped my amazing model in plastic wrap, glued painted flowers on her, wrapped her up in tape, then cut her out. The skirt is four painted pieces of newspaper with a hole cut out and overlaid with waterproof paper.
“AQUAMARINE” Designers - Ava Campagna, Evelyn Intihar and Alita Kakutani Model - Evelyn Intihar Three friends, who always wanted to be that mystical creature, the Mermaid, took this opportunity to turn one of the girls into one. They were inspired by the magical mermaids in “Peter and the Starcatcher” play at BPA. This hardworking trio turned plastic chicken feed bags, dozens of egg cartons, newspaper, old costume jewelry, and seashells from their backyard beach into their very own mermaid, named “Aquamarine.”
“MODERN INDUSTRIAL FLAPPER ENSEMBLE” Designer - Theres Kunzi-Clark Model - Soleil Cowen-Kwan The silver sparkle of the obsolete stove hood filter caught my eye and gave me the inspiration to craft the Modern Industrial Flapper Ensemble. I paired “the industrial fabric” with many different size washers. The washers in this application are small flat rings made of metal, and traditionally used with nuts and bolts, not to confuse with the big machines that wash your clothes. An old fabric shower curtain provides the lining of the dress. The flapper head band has imaginary feathers made out of parts of an old vegetable steamer basket. The steamer basket parts are also included on the footwear. Extra paint left from Halloween helped to give the washers a bit more couture refinement.
”GREEN GODDESS” Designer and model - Camille Heidemann Camille named her dress Green Goddess as it is made of Recycled or Green Materials. The top of the dress is woven plastic grocery store bags. As some of the bags were too short we had to tie them together to weave them. The bottom half of the dress is a patchwork of bubble wrap. Tape was used to keep the pattern is place. Matching bubble wrap flowers are the finishing touches on the dress and hair.
“FLORA AND POCA” Designer and Model - Lyra Cromwell Flora And Poca is a colorful, multilayered garment made from Lays chip bags, surplus leis from Ovation! Musical Theatre’s recent production of South Pacific, and several trash bags. It was designed to draw attention to Hawaii’s current issue with surplus trash. A convergence of unfortunately placed currents is causing literally tons of garbage, of which over half is un-recycled plastic, to wash up on north- and east-facing beaches every year in a grim reminder that plastic can never really be thrown away.
Repurposed Fashion
1st Place “SPONGE MOB HAPPY PLACE” Designer and Model - Janelle Abbot This piece is modeled by Seattle based artist, Janelle Abbott, who is one half of the duo, FEMAIL. Along with LA based artist Camilla Carper, the pair makes clothing by mailing pieces back and forth through the USPS, each adding on and reworking with every pass, in what they call “reactive collaboration”. From FEMAIL’s second collection of one of a kind garments titled “Sponge Mob Happy Place” we have “Cry Me a River, Irene” featuring Alexy’s eyes, Janelle’s former neon jogging sweat shirt, a found blue tarp, reinvented quilting project including a pizza delivery car banner, Abbott family drop cloth/bed sheet, hand painted images and shapes (house paint), a faux fur braid, among other odd ball bits and pieces reclaimed clothing and textiles from the personal wardrobes of the garments makers, Camilla Carper and Janelle Abbott, also known as FEMAIL.
2nd Place “WORKING MAN BLUES” Designer - Susan Skalak Model - Her daughter, Linden Skalak This ensemble is made from a working man’s wardrobe: dress shirts, a suit and blue jeans. This design can take a working girl to new places. My goal when designing with used pieces of clothing is to new life to the cloth, embodying a high fashion sensibility into a fresh statement. The jeans were used to make a vest influenced by Christian Dior’s New Look, which was Paris’ return to high fashion after World War II. The bodice is fitted to the waist and flared below the hip. I cut the jeans to make the 8 pieces in this design, which uses princess seams. The waist band from the jeans is used at the front waist and a seam with top stitching is used down the back. The vest is lined using men’s shirts and has a hidden pocket on the inside. The shirt is fitted, and again uses princess seams. The shirt uses three different men’s shirts to make the pieces and the cuffs. The back is decorated with sashiko stitching and linen patches. The buttons are mismatched leftover buttons from Esther’s Fabrics. The skirt is inspired by the Edwardian Walking skirt. The skirt used the suit pants and sleeves from a men’s suit. Because of the length of the skirt, the suit pieces were joined together using scraps from a rayon skirt. Princess seams define the line of the skirt, and the closure uses 15 shirt buttons. Voila!
3rd Place “SUGAR” Model - KATY ROBOCKER Made from a tulle skirt, fabric remnants, wired craft materials, and used beads.
“PATCHWORK SOCK COUTURE ENSEMBLE” Designer - Lily Diament-Hansen Model - Her daughter, Lara Hansen Re-use, re-cycle, re-purpose has been my mantra for decades. My daughter, Lara, the lovely young lady modeling her sweater and skirt ensemble, had been saving moth eaten cashmere garments in the hope we’d one day have enough for me to turn them into a blanket throw. When she challenged me to submit something to the Trashion show, knowing we both had some beautiful albeit well-worn if not worn out socks, I immediately thought sweater. When I realized I needed to submit an ensemble, I began asking friends to cull their socks for donations. My imagination and sewing skills were put to the test. First, I cut squares and rectangles utilizing the parts of the socks that were not threadbare. These blocks were ‘hemmed’ so they would not unravel. Though I took basic measurements from one of my daughter’s sweaters, I did not use a pattern for either garment. I began piecing together two front panels, a back panel, and two sleeves. Using embroidery floss I utilized a blanket stitch to attach the pieces. A simple wrap skirt to finishes off the ensemble. All the buttons are repurposed from my mom’s button collection, which Lara inherited from her grandmother, who had been salvaging buttons from discarded clothing. The 3 snaps used to secure the skirt, were taken from the lining of a coat I’d previously owned. This ensemble was created thanks to 3 generations of re-purposers.
“DRESSED FOR DINNER” Designer and model - Sandy Schubach Setting a pretty table is one of my favorite pleasures – I have more tablecloths and napkins than is probably legal, and I am truly sad when they reach the point to be tossed away. The floral tablecloth in this outfit is one of the first fair-trade purchases I ever made, well over a decade ago. What better way to keep it going than in a flowery jacket and using the matching napkins for the fun border. An old solid green tablecloth makes the capris. The clutch purse is from one of my husband’s old Tony Soprano style shirts. Ribbon trim has been salvaged from a never-completed art project from the last century. I’m happy to keep these pretty fabrics alive as wearable art!
“PALIMPSEST” Designer -Baeven Hoit Model - Her sister, Anais Hoit Palimpsest. Noun: a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing, but of which traces remain. I like the idea of a character who doesn’t know what time they are from – they just kind of flip between them. Where America is a melting pot of cultures in the spatial plane, this costume represents a melting in the temporal plane. It is worn by a femme fatal, a woman of mystery and refinement who stands against the danger in the shadows. She is a heroine in a spy movie of neon and rain taking place in a 1950s jazz club under the earth with lasers and leather, smelling of antique shops, caves and used bookstores. Constructed out of three dresses, faux leather, DVDs, copper wire, paper, and ink, I see this costume as a mass of contradictions, that you make work, and in doing so make interesting. The inspirations are the TV series Firefly and the Twilight Zone, as well as the movies Blade Runner and The Shape of Water.
“AS THE LIGHT BLOOMS” Designer - McKayla SewNsew Dreams of exploring grandmother’s attic, opening antique trunks to find handmade lace created by generations of love and intentional moments suspended in time by precise fingers…The wisp of a butterflies gossamer wing as you glance through the translucence at the sunshine glare…a well laid table runner set with your mothers blooming dahlias harvested at the proper minute of blossom…. Through each memory our connections weave our history into a quilt, stitch by stitch as tender and ragged as our tears…with each glimpse our empathy can grow, inspired by each other, extended well beyond the intention of the moment…To create a current that carries the flow, turning each ripple into a movement engaging a momentum that we can harness and share with each other… When we recognize our ability and necessity to collaborate in the creation of intention.
“RAINBOW STARTER” Designer and Model - Azalea Snowmassara Azalea had a hard time thinking about what she wanted her dress to be made out of. Her mom, Mckayla also a Trashion show creator, helped brainstorm ideas and they decided it should be a rainbow of colors all out of order. She finds her chosen materials inspiring because purple is her favorite color and she likes the idea of reusing items to create something from scratch. She would like to offer encouragement to the audience to create something for next years’ Trashion show.
“A DRESS TO INSPIRE” Designer - Lily Lashmet Model - Anna Wilder The dress to inspire. The act of taking something old and making it into something new. I took out-of-season/used clothes and made them into something you might find in the store now. It’s inspired by both environmental impact and the model. Because the outfit should fit you not the other way around. This is an original design with lots of personality. It combined Anna’s creativity and free spirit, in the feather embellishments, flowing skirt and sleeves. Made of an old jean jacket, lace dress, blue dress, old T-shirt and lace roll.
“THE BOLD DIVA” Designer and Model - Moorea Eldon-Everts This next design was created and is being modeled by Moorea Eldon-Everts, a sophomore at Bainbridge High School. The materials she used in her apparel include various items of cloth and clothing collected from garage sales, clothing exchanges, and hand-me-downs. In her design she is featuring vintage jeans that have been shaped and altered with a peek-a-boo knee cut out and a fringed terminus just above the ankle. The top of her outfit features a distressed turtleneck with an overlaid top, decorated to draw the eye from the profusion of color around the waist up to the bedecked neckline.
“SPICE” WORN" Designer and model - Lauren Day They used a tulle skirt and corset belt, Styrofoam and fabric.