mm-wrapper-dress

We find ourselves inadvertently collecting images of fabulous dresses made out of unlikely materials, like this beauty made by  Cristina Liedtke  from discarded peanut M&M wrappers. It’s on display at TerraCycle’s Green Up Shop, a pop-up shop set up in empty retail space in Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City.

“To create the gown, more than 1,800 flowers were individually cut and sewn from 600 Peanut M&M wrappers, a time-consuming process that took over 100 hours of labor. (Five yards of silk charmeuse and silk shantung were used for the lining.)

Liedtke’s wearable artwork depicts flowers in bloom: The top of the dress displays the initial budding, while the middle portrays a ‘landscape of blooming vibrant poppies,’ according to the designer. ‘Finally, the bottom of the dress expresses a collage of fully bloomed mature flowers,’ she adds.

Terracycle is a company who makes useful products out of garbage, like an Oreo Wrapper Kite and planters made out of crushed computers and fax machines. They package the products in “garbage” as well: used/recycled bottles, boxes etc. Terracycle seems to have figured out ways of recycling that have stymied city governments.

Says CEO Tom Szaky: “Garbage is opportunity.”

Check out this video about Terracycle:

via eCouture via BoingBoing

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One thought on “m&m wrapper dress (garbage is opportunity)

  1. The dress is really beautiful and brought back memories of one that my little sister wore as a girl in the 1970s. It was a pinafore, maxi-style, made of Sunmaid Raisin boxes.

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