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'Trashion' Trend: Dumpster Couture Gets a Boost at Green Inaugural Ball
The Wall Street Journal ^
| 01-13-09
| STEPHANIE SIMON
Posted on 01/13/2009 7:12:35 AM PST by GOP_Lady
Designer Judd Will Be Showing Off a Coat of Many Colorful Obama Posters
SANTA FE, N.M. -- In the world of trashy fashion, designer Nancy Judd has hit the big time.
Nancy Judd Ms. Judd spends her days in a studio here crafting clothing from castoff plastic bags, electrical wire and old cassette tapes. Now, her Dumpster couture has caught the eye of environmental activists, who plan to showcase her work in Washington at Saturday's Green Inaugural Ball honoring President-elect Barack Obama.
The star piece: A man's coat made from Mr. Obama's campaign fliers. She says it took her 200 hours to cut and paste and sew it.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coronation; fashion; green; inaugural; inauguration; obama
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Personally, I feel that trash belongs in the garbage, not on the human body, and I prefer natural fibers to electrical wire and cassette tapes. Oh, and nails are a definite "no-no!"
Image of Nancy Judd.
Make sure to check out the slideshow.
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posted on
01/13/2009 7:12:38 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
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posted on
01/13/2009 7:14:25 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
Breathable and washable cotton, anyone?
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posted on
01/13/2009 7:15:16 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
“...200 hours to cut and paste and sew it.”
Will she have to spend any carbon credits for this waste of energy? Lol...
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posted on
01/13/2009 7:15:50 AM PST
by
SumProVita
(Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
To: SumProVita
Watching these loons is becoming more fun everyday. Never-ending source of entertainment.
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posted on
01/13/2009 7:17:37 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
Useless, impractical...But well-intentioned, and therefore admirable.
Whut-ever.
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posted on
01/13/2009 7:20:09 AM PST
by
LongElegantLegs
(Deplore the profligate scattering of corpses!)
To: GOP_Lady
“And now, Pres.-Elect Obama, representing the ‘Stupid Is as Stupid Does’ constituency...”
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posted on
01/13/2009 7:23:25 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
To: GOP_Lady
Her designer must have watched Zoolander.
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posted on
01/13/2009 7:26:11 AM PST
by
DManA
To: DManA
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posted on
01/13/2009 7:27:28 AM PST
by
zoso82t
To: GOP_Lady
She must be a descendant of PT Barnum.
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posted on
01/13/2009 7:28:09 AM PST
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: zoso82t
It is impossible for satirists to keep up.
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posted on
01/13/2009 7:28:50 AM PST
by
DManA
To: GOP_Lady
I bet this poor, deluded artsy-craftsy do-gooder thinks this is something new. It ain’t.
Waitakere City, NZ (where I live) has been running a “Trash-to-Fashion” pageant every year since... well since just after Noah landed his Ark. As long as I can remember, anyrate. Haute couture made from garbage, worn by models, displayed on a runway, judged, and (sometimes) bought for big bucks...
She is therefore passe, old news, last year’s style.
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posted on
01/13/2009 7:31:26 AM PST
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: GOP_Lady
There was a time when this was considered comedy, rather than haute couture.
To: GOP_Lady
This was a plot line in the movie “Zoolander.” A fashion line based on what the homeless wore called “Dereliqted.”
To: GOP_Lady
Where have you been hidin’ out lately, honey?
You can’t dress trashy till you spend a lot of money.
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Hey, be nice to me or I'll buy you that jacket made of an automobile hard top covered with nails so I can hear the klinking and no where you are all day. ;-)
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posted on
01/13/2009 7:42:54 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
At left, a close-up of the 1930s-style red evening gown from the previous slide. The dress is made from upholstery fabric and 12,000 glued-on pieces of crushed glass. The dress occasionally sheds, so it might be smart to bring Band-Aids on a night out.
"I've never been injured," she said. But she sees her dresses more as wearable sculptures than utilitarian clothing. "You can't sit down in any of them, really," Ms. Judd explained.
Forget slow dancing!
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posted on
01/13/2009 7:44:05 AM PST
by
Islander7
(This Atlas is shrugging! ~ I am Joe!)
To: SumProVita
I wonder what her “cutting and pasting” skills are like on a computer.
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posted on
01/13/2009 7:44:25 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
To: Islander7
Great idea to keep guys away — the dress with the nails! Thanks!
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posted on
01/13/2009 7:45:14 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
Or the opposite, the dress with the bubblewrap! ;-)
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01/13/2009 7:47:11 AM PST
by
GOP_Lady
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