Fashion show with recycled material The clothes you

Fashion show with recycled material The clothes you are going to see have been created using only recycled materials. All the pupils from our school have collaborated to collect and to choose suitable materials to make fashion wear. The materials that were used are almost exclusively of nylon, in particular: Ø coloured rubbish bags Ø bubble wrap Ø shopping bags Ø hairdresser’s capes Ø picnic tablecloths Ø building trade fabrics Ø horticulture fabrics Ø florist’s nets Ø leftover plastic from a toy factory Ø general plastic objects Ø covers for books and exercise-books Ø other

The pupils of class 2^I took part in a workshop where, working in small groups, they designed and made clothes and accessories, contributing their imaginative and original ideas. The workshop began in January and finished in April. All the planned objectives have been achieved.

Fashion show clothing

Butterfly This dress has been made using a shopping bag and some hairdresser’s capes The colour fuchsia and the delicate materials remind us of a butterfly.

Flower garden The green colour prevails in this dress to suggest a meadow with splashes of pink colour: the flowers of spring. It has been made from plastic coated paper tablecloths.

Starlight night Van Gogh said that the stars at night were not of only one colour, but had reflections of yellow, green and violet, too. In this design the colour violet stands for the light of the stars. The materials we used are black and violet rubbish bags.

Sun The yellow and orange colours of this dress remind us of the sunlight, especially in summer. It has been made with a yellow bag, a florist’s net and some pieces of picnic tablecloth. The accessories are made with recycled industrial material.

Rain This dress is completely covered by rain drops and is made with bubble wrap and plastic objects.

Ikebana The Japanese elegance in the art of floral arrangement is represented by a very wide and stylish floral belt made with fabric from tablecloths. The kimono is made with plasticized paper used by building trade.

Clouds Spring clouds are represented by using many tones of blue and white. We used nylon bags and hairdresser’s capes to create this model.

Night Total blackness in a starless night. We used a nylon horticulture fabric.

Spring A trapezium of multicoloured flowers. This dress has been made with nylon horticulture fabric.

Snow The dress you are looking at represents the snow and for this reason white building material has been used, as well as some rubbish bags.

Winter wind This dress has been created to represent the wind that blows everything about in the cold winter evenings, that are full of reflections, with shades from grey to black (glares) It has been made with nylon horticulture fabric and grey, opaque and glossy shopping bags.

The pupils group with their teachers