The ultimate in recycling

A high school teacher's challenge has Langley Fine Arts School students thinking outside the (blue) box.The creativity of Langley Fine Arts School students will be on display this Thursday when they host a trashion show called Take Another Look.
Again this year students at the Fort Langley school have taken items intended for the landfill or the compost pile and turned them into inventive outfits.

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Student Seoyoon Lee (in a full-length dress by Dahye Lim) modelled one of the pieces that will be on display.

The public can see their creations - more than 50 pieces - Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Willowbrook Shopping Centre.Check out a purse crafted out of Kraft dinner boxes, an outfit of paper towels, a functional umbrella made out of used bubble wrap, a Flapper-style dress made of plastic garbage bags, or a dress made out of burned out Christmas lights.
The show focuses on the idea of taking a second look at the things people use and throw away everyday. Visual arts students in Grades 10, 11 and 12 were given the task to create fashion items from materials viewed as garbage or what makes it into the recycling bin.
"The works in this fashion exhibit encourage both the artists and the audience to 'Take Another Look'; to take another look at the incredibly creative and innovative pieces and, more importantly, to take another look at our consumption habits and the accumulation of waste that results," said teacher Nancy Crawford.
The result is a diverse array of inspiring pieces ranging from casual wear to evening dresses made from materials as diverse as plastic straws, teabags, bus tickets and receipts, bubble wrap, chip bags, and paper towels.
Students from the school will also be doing freeze modeling - striking a pose and holding it for extended periods.
It all takes place in the centre court of the shopping centre, which also played host to the show last April. The trashion show - free to attend - is in honour of Earth Day, the annual day that encourages people to think about how their actions impact the planet and nature.