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Sunday, May 04, 2008

Closet Cases Get New Life in Fashion

By Dan Mayfield
Journal Staff Writer
      It's easy to think of recyclables as the stuff we put on the curb. Tin cans, newspapers, glass bottles. They're the easy stuff.
       But local fashion designers have been digging even deeper into the dark, dank corners of their own closets and drawers or walls to find stuff to recycle into new clothing.
       “There's so much clothing that gets thrown away or dumped or lost in the deepest recesses of someone's closet,” said designer Maria Sanchez. “Sometimes you don't want to see it go. It's more fun to remake it.”
       Rather than collecting recyclables, like some other designers who add that to clothing, Sanchez and other designers in the show take old clothes and make them new again. It's the fashion equivalent of a hot-rodder remaking an old Chevy into a boulevard cruiser.
       “Old fabric is so awesome,” said designer Annie Ozaksut. “I mostly sew with T-shirts, but there's curtains and old dresses that are redone into current styles.”
       Ozaksut is the organizer of tonight's Recycled Fashion Show at Stove featuring seven designers who take the old and make it new. The two-hour show, which starts at 7 p.m., will be followed by a trunk show of the designers' clothing.
       “I started designing, using recycled, out of necessity,” Ozaksut said. “I took old clothing and turned it into skirts and tank tops and started selling it.”
       Her work, under the label Mother White Milk, a translation of her name from Turkish, has been sold at several local boutiques.
       For three years Sanchez has made belt buckles that combine the best of recycled materials, from M&M wrappers to her own silkscreens, as well as clothing, under the label Melange.
       “I take old clothing and add silkscreens and turn it into something new. Most of my pieces have something new with them,” Sanchez said. “When I was a girl, I used to sew up T-shirts and pillows and such. I've always been interested in it.”
   

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If you go WHAT: Recycled Fashion show
       WHEN: 7 tonight
       WHERE: Stove, 1114 Morningside NE
       HOW MUCH: $2 at the door

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