Eco Couture by Paul Hardy

[jssy4eva]

I saw this posted on Mode Models and thought it was interesting.

WEAR YOUR GREENS
It looks like we can finally forget about getting on track with this whole pesky curbside recycling thing.

Now, thanks to Calgary's own internationally recognized fashion designer Paul Hardy, we can wear the contents of our recycling bins instead.

There were more than a few oohs and ahhs at yesterday's Green To The Core fashion show at the Eaton Centre -- a lunch-time spectacle of earth-friendly fashion designed to promote enviro-initiatives in our city and raise awareness about Alberta's Bow Riverkeeper organization.

Some of Hardy's 'Eco-Couture' seen on the runway included a gown made entirely of paint-can lids, and a little 'black-gold' dress made out of kitchen and garden compostables -- complete with a hemline of coffee filters and a corset of shrubbery.

While these one-offs won't be found on a rack near you anytime soon, many other eco-ensembles seen on the runway from retailers including Banana Republic and Roots are on shelves now.

If you haven't yet caught on to the season's hottest trend of eco-friendly organic fibres and soft earth-tone fabrics, you might as well still be trashing your pop cans.

Go get some Green.

*thecalgarysun.com

Coat Hangers and Bubble Wrap


Safeway Bags

*modemodels.com

 

[jssy4eva]

Broken Glass and Mesh


Old Key Rings, Cd's and Shipping Tubes


Lids of Paint Cans

 

[jssy4eva]

Packing Foam and Old Newspapers


Newspapers

*modemodels.com

 

[ilaughead]

While I love the idea of high-design being environmentally friendly, this is rather Project-Runway-Meets-John-Galliano isn't it?

 

[softgrey]

it's fun to look at anyway......

 

[nqth]

^ it's a true recycling of old ideas:-P

 

[adorefaith]

oh canada....
it is a brilliant idea though.....i'm interested to see what banana republic and roots have done....

 

[Diorling]

Its a complete ripoff of Dior. I mean, newspaper used in a classic Dior shape, with Dioresque makeup...Yea, original..

 

[adorefaith]

what's original is that it is 'earth-friendly' fashion.....that they have used things like coffee filters and shrubbery.....i think that's pretty original, no?

i don't understand the negativity....

 

[Scott]

yeah kind of redundant but i love the spirit behind it,indefinitely!

 

[Ghost]

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at least the makeups are total rip-off from Dior HC and some galliano silhouettes and auras..... i mean there's nothing wrong with inspiring galliano's ideas, but this is.............


May be this is one-off Dior couture show for Dior's anniversary

 

[kaleigh]

The newspaper outfit is my favourite!