Waste Not, Want Not at Rhythmix Cultural Works' Make Do Runway and Gallery Shows

There is probably no more than fleeting promise of the functionality of a wedding dress. For every hour of torture and hundreds of dollars that can happen to buy the perfect habit, when the wearer, said, "I", the garment is basically useless. Relegated to the corners of cupboards and shelves of thrift stores, clothing, ceremonial and collects dust quickly and slowly go out of fashion, so that decades later be, a contemporary bride before they do put on them to birthday suit, the old suit your own wedding.

In these circumstances, you could use a resuscitator call Jennifer Serr dress. A clothing designer and modeller of life took Serr wedding dresses designed and redesigned for reuse. Working largely on dozens of second-hand shop, Serr ugly scarves short forms of dress flattering contrary, puffed sleeves of 1980 abolished the obligation to bridesmaids, dresses, and long life is a vicious second. "I save clothes that are either suspended or are bound only by the landfill, and help to arrive," he said. "It's really amazing what you can with something that has the looks so old and ugly. "
SERR a handful of coins, which is usually sold through Etsy, press the podium Friday, March 9 as part of the first events of Make Do!, A recycled art and even a cycle and a fashion show on the screen Rhythmix Cultural Works (2513 Blanding Ave, Alameda, CA) at Friday, May 4 For both the way and shows in the gallery, the artist created, reused or recycled clothing, housewares, artwork and articles thrift stores, dumpsters criticized for flea markets and other shrines of waste. Therefore pieces, and more utilities Serr and other designers, fashion, appearing on the track first exhibition built everything from bags of chips with mini-blinds in their construction. With these pieces, not only the triumph of function to fashion, but the underlying message of the series - the old green mantra "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" - is clear.

"Making! This is to show people how to cope with what we have, "said Coffee & Tea Garden Julie Julie Baron owner, helped organize and contributed to the ingredients of the title in the series. "If we are not the products in your closet that have not been used for years, you can change them in the modern era, or to find unusual pieces and used that normally do not." Arguably the show, the works of artists of upward trends shop, Redux and studies of the gallery, and many others, including the testimony of the fact that recycling is never old.