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Making stylish use of the unwanted

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The trend of making use of recycled materials in fashion design is spreading to schools, with students from Renaissance College now giving discarded materials a second life.

On Wednesday, students will show their concern for the environment by presenting a fashion show and exhibition, and they have dubbed their trash fashion 'trashion'.

Year 13 student Louis Kang came up with the trashion idea as a way of raising awareness of recycling in his school and in the community in an amusing way.

'The trashion concept shows that you can create something beautiful out of almost anything. Also, you can make trash into art,' he said.

The students have done everything, from generating ideas to organising and running the show and exhibition. Head designer of the show, Year 13 student Jane Tan, and her team picked the 13 best design collections submitted by students.

'Each designer has to produce a collection of three garments based on one theme. Materials are not limited, as long as they are recycled materials. They have to be very creative and think out of the box,' Jane said.

Jane's collection 'Warrior' makes use of paper origami, garbage bags and tin cans. 'We have to fight to get our environment better, fight to protest [against the state of] our planet,' Jane said, explaining her design concept.

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