Thursday, August 21, 2008

Garbage Dresses?
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I took my 13 year old cousin downtown to start teaching her how to take photos with my cameras. We had a blast! While we were there, we saw all of these dresses by designer row on Michigan Avenue. All of them were made from recycled materials including old pop cans, umbrellas, bubble wrap, pins, and other scrap materials.

I later learned that they were a collective project by students at the International Academy of Design and Technology. Here's some of what we saw: