Miss Reverb Fever

MATERIALS

Unusable CDs and DVDs, human hair, old curtains and denim jean dress, guitar strings, spiral notebooks springs. The cds were collected from SCRAP and from an elementary school’s computer lab.

~ 600 hours

INSPIRATION

“What could you do with plastics from shipments?” Regularly receiving plastics in my shipments I started to save them to see what could be sculpted out of it. It felt eskimo like. So I went with frigid climate design.

EVENT

Junk to Funk 2008 – Portland’s Recycled Fashion Show Contest

CREDITS

Modeled by Jen LaMastra. Photos courtesy of Corey Ravens.

ACCOLADES

This jacket has been on display at several eco-events hosted by Junk to Funk, and on display at Montavilla sewing center for a teens fashion camp I taught.

Published in Portland Monthly, and the Brooklyn Bee well as been on several blogs including Green Wala.

Interviewed on Portlands’ T.V. program Sustainable Today.

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