SAVE THE DATE!
Mark your calendars for 2024 Trashion Fashion Week(s) of Events!
- Trashion Fashion Runway Show – April 6th, 2024
- Trashion Barbies: Reclaimed & Reinvented Gallery and Auction Opening – March 28th, 2024
Trashion Runway Applications will be available in the beginning of December 2023. Trashion Barbie Applications will be available mid January 2024. Kids classes and Trashion workshops info coming soon. Tis the season to plan, save or start your Trashion project with all the generated holiday waste such as containers, wrappers, found objects and other recycled materials.
Outrageous outfits made from recycled materials walk the runway in this fashion show where art, design, and ecology come together.
Every April, Trashion Fashion celebrates the intersection of fashion, art, and environmental sustainability.
The main event is a runway show that features unique garments, made by community members from recycled or found and unlikely materials. Trashion also includes a gallery show of Barbies, saved from our local landfill and dressed in unique upcycled fashion, a free community Trash Bash party, and a Dogs on the Catwalk show for four-legged companions.
To learn more, please contact Molly Spencer at (707) 928-4626 ext. 4, or molly@sonomacommunitycenter.org.
2023 Trashion Fashion Runway Winners Announced
Runway Photo Credit: Melinda Kelley
Sonoma Community Center’s beloved event, the Trashion Fashion Runway Show took place on Saturday, April 22nd, Earth Day, at the Sonoma Veteran’s Memorial Hall and was a smashing success! Two sold out shows that featured thirty-two entries of outrageous head-to-toe designs, made from recycled materials and found objects. Handmade by designers of all ages who participated from Sonoma Valley, Sonoma & Napa County, the Bay Area and even long distance from New Orleans. All designers rose to the challenge of turning trash into wearable art and strutting their stuff or having a model sashay down the forty-foot runway. Judging this year were New York City artist and Instagram sensation, Deborah Rapoport, Marie Kneemeyer from Recology Sonoma Marin, and Gretchen Turner of the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum Textile Council. Attendees of the Trashion Fashion Runway Shows voted at the end of each show for the Republic of Thrift People’s Choice awards. It was a very close run and often separated by only one point, but the 2023 winners have been announced and awarded. Congratulations to all who participated and look out in January 2024 for next year’s Runway Call for Entries!
A huge thank you to the volunteers, sponsors, partners, designers, models, and community who helped make 2023 Trashion Fashion Sonoma Sustainability Events a smashing success!
Judge’s Winners – Adults
- The Vickie Soulier 1st Place Award, Adult: “Shatter Me,”
designed by Brittany Kunde - 2nd Place, Adult: “Reina de Primavera,”
designed by Noemi Vaquez Romero - 3rd Place, Adult: “Met Ninja Gala,”
designed by Janet Nusbaum & Jerzy Wollak - 4rth Place, Adult: “From Me and Mine to You and Yours”
Kate Jernigan, Sofia Carlson, Heather Gobbe and Michelle Jernagin
Judge’s Winners – Junior
- 1st Place, Junior: “Spring Awakening,”
designed by Artquest Students: Jupiter, Lucia and Vanessa - 2nd Place, Junior: “The Grand Dumpster Fire”,”
designed by Artquest Students: Zoe, Fiona and Taj - 3rd Place, Junior:“179006”
designed by Ant Metz
Republic of Thrift
People’s Choice Award Winner
- People’s Choice, Adult: “Shatter Me,”
designed by Brittany Kunde - People’s Choice, Junior: “Rainbow Tissue Royalty,”
designed by Tano and Aria Luddy
Thank you to our generous sponsors and partners of Trashion Fashion! We cannot do it without you!
Vickie Soulier, E. Patricia Herron, Janet Nusbaum. Republic of Thrift, Recology, Bag & FilmRecycling.org, County of Sonoma Board of Supervisors, Creative Sonoma AIGO, Sonoma Garbage Collectors, Lynn Martin, Café La Haye, Coursey Graves Estate Vineyards and Tips Roadside!
