GGLO’s own Bill Gaylord headlined the 2007 ISS Trash Fashion Bash, a fundraising even created to highlight waste and the need for environmental sustainability. Bill’s been involved in the event for the last two years, and his most recent created, created by GGLO Associate Jennifer Stormont and called the “Ghost of Christmas Past and Future”, was another stunner.
The Seattle Times reported it well:
Gaylord's eye-popping pants are a rainbow of used ribbon sewn together with silvery Mylar. Stormont knitted together wires from old Christmas lights for a sleeveless sweater and a turtleneck with flashing lights. They glued used batteries to a pool cue for a walking cane and included plastic disposable water bottles as the base for the fez-shaped headdress adorned with salt and pepper shakers. Materials came from their garage and what they could scrounge up from businesses and friends.
"This is a really fun way to make people think but also get creative with materials that would be thrown out normally," Gaylord said.
"Once you start brainstorming ideas, it gets infectious," Gaylord said. "It's fun, and you're doing it for a good cause to enlighten people on the day-to-day decisions that they make. It's all about changing people's behavior."
Bill and GGLO look forward to future Trash Fashion Bash events.
Photo above courtesy Hiro Davis. More great images here.