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considered trash. Up-cycling The design and theatre
bins were put all over the facilitators at DPS
campus, and the staff and International supported
student community were students in organizing their
sensitized and asked to donate time and resources through
old clothing, accessories, and the feedback they needed
bags. in acquiring new skills like
The young designers then stitching, embroidery,
applied their research skills macramé, etc to bring the
and inquired about the various pieces together. They did a
kinds of waste generated in the thorough search of the piles
school campus, particularly of clothes to choose fabric and
in the cafeteria, office, and motifs for their costumes.
gardens through surveys,
interviews, and observations It was wonderful to see
which could become the how bits and pieces from all
potential raw material for these piles were turned into
creating jewelry pieces. creative dresses. This process
After scouring the items also led them to the planning
collected in the up-cycling for the performance they
bins, they started developing wanted to present to the
ideas through sketches for wider community, namely
the dresses and jewelry the parent community. Thus
pieces, often deconstructing, began the conceptualization of
combining and accentuating ‘The Trashion Show’, a show to
garments to create and style demonstrate trash turned into
fresh looks. fashion ensemble.
