K-RE-A-SHEAN A fashion show for Mother Earth
The CNMI community has zeroed in on a way to incorporate fashion and caring for mother earth. Featuring today’s trend in clothes, the Mount Carmel School Fine Arts Department and the Division of Environmental Quality, will hold a fashion show highlighting costumes derived from used articles.
Since January, MCS students and staff have created a whole set of wardrobe made from fishnets, fishtails, laundry softeners, destroyed video films, flour bags, run down stockings, paper beads, old newspapers, tin cans, and spoiled bread.
MCS High School art teacher Tina Zepeda said efforts at making something useful with what would otherwise be considered “trash” is MCS’s way of helping the community lay off on the significant volume of waste it produces every day.
Composed of small islands, CNMI has not much room for trash landfills unlike other nations, according to Ms. Zepeda.
It seems like a realistic vision, Ms. Zepeda added, that the commonwealth would in the future resort to recycling in the production of the population’s clothing.
“With the prices of clothing rising every so often, it is not impossible,” she said.
Highly industrialized nations have taken this step already, Ms. Zepeda continued, where they convert plastic into an actual wearable garment similar to cotton.
This Saturday, MCS and DEQ in close partnership will show to the CNMI community a glimpse of these future possibilities.
The production is dubbed as “K-re-a-shean,” a fashion show dedicated to mother earth.
It will be held at the Gilligan’s Hyatt at 2:00 p.m., free admission.
MCS students and staff will be parading the clothes with matching bags and hats.
“The community will see trash converted into art form,” said Ms. Zepeda.
