Spring Break
Fashion show remixes, rewears
More than 60 garments created and displayed on stage:
Candice Ruud
Issue date: 2/25/09 Section: News
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The Ballroom, which was at capacity 10 minutes before the event started at 7 p.m., drew an audience from across the campus and community members who watched the show standing in the rain through the windows.
Molly Sedlacek, a junior in merchandising, was among the few hundred people in attendance.
"I have a friend modeling and people I know who made outfits," Sedlacek said. "They showed a spectacular use of garments and did a good job of showing an array of designs. It wasn't just dresses this year."
Sedlacek admitted she didn't think she would enter a garment in the Recycled Fashion Show next year, believing that she couldn't match the caliber of the recycled dresses and outfits.
The show's theme this year, "Revamp, Remix, Rewear," or the "three Rs of recycling," found over 60 garments on the runway varying vastly in their materials, from pop cans to CDs and melted records.
Samantha Kraus, a sophomore in interior design who designed and handcrafted four dresses for the show, said she had been working on this project since October, when she started gathering leaves and moss for the earthier of her dresses.
"I went to the Recycled Fashion Show last year and I was inspired," Kraus said. "I finished my first dress in November and since then I've been consistently chipping away at them."
Kraus said she used moss, leaves, pop cans, 45-inch records and newspaper to make her dresses, each of which differed greatly.
After each model walked across the catwalk and headed back to the stage to the beat of the music and the audience's applause, the designers were brought on stage and the judges deliberated their final decision.
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