Bolivian fashion designer Marion Macedo showed a collection of designs in La Paz on Friday.* Macedo’s collection consisted of outfits made from paper and recycled materials. The results were interesting, to say the least, but not the most wearable. Many of the outfits looked more like craft day at the local preschool than fashion. Let’s take a look:
Corrugated cardboard hat and shawl: Looks like the model didn’t wait for the glue to dry on the top. Oops! Practicality of this outfit is low. The hat may work for a sunny day, but you don’t want to get caught in the rain wearing this. Have you smelled wet cardboard? Not attractive.
Egg carton wrap and skirt detail with matching handbag: Wish the egg cartons weren’t part of the outfit. One can’t tell whether or not the crocheted dress underneath is a revelation with the cartons in the way. Either way, if you plan to wear egg cartons, be sure to sanitize them to prevent the spread of salmonella. Food-borne illness is a real fashion don’t.
Table runner dress with flower details: This piece is infinitely more wearable than the others. Not sure that’s a compliment, though.
Fan and Snowflakes dress: The hair bow of this piece of reminiscent of the one worn by one of the characters in the “Day-O†scene from “Beetlejuice.†(Not sure what I’m referring to? Go about 27 seconds into this YouTube video.) The rest of the outfit is what happens at “Paper Fan and Snowflake Day†at PS 22.
Two-headed paper accordion dress: Want to test the limits of your relationship? Insist that your partner wear this with you.
Bride of Coca-Cola: Judging by the recycling symbol on the model’s nether regions, this isn’t her first wedding.
Strapless Paper Flower Dress: Could they have picked a worse shoe for this?
So, what do you think? Would you wear Marion Macedo’s recycled collection?
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Comments: 2
The paper flower and table dress are the best of the bunch.
I personally wear enough "recycled" clothes already as a thrifty "green" mom--buying at Goodwill, yard sales, gifts from family, etc. I think that's a better way to be green. I'm leaving the cardboard and paper recyclables where they will be best applied--into making more cardboard and paper.
Speaking of recycled clothes, though, did you see the story earlier this week about the British, I think it was, design students who made a wedding dress that would literally disappear when water was added? Not for an outdoor wedding--unless the bride were a porn star! Okay, I found the story. It's at the Greenbiz.com site here .
I hadn't seen that article until you pointed it out. It's unbelievable how much $$ and fabric go into a gown that will be worn once. They need to make bridesmaids dresses that dissolve the same way so that it's easier to get rid of the evidence. ;-)