E 1001 Junk To Funk Fashion show  2009
Channel: Sustainable Today
Date: 2019-03-26

Junk to Funk Recycled Fashion Show Contest is an annual Elysium Events production aimed to educate it's audiences about waste reduction, recycling issues and sustainable living practices. And we do it in a most unique way: through showcasing wearable art and couture fashion based on the creative use of “trash” in an eclectic and often humorous production.

Each year submissions for entry are encouraged by professional artists, fashion/apparel designers and the creative public to be featured on the fashion show runway. Selected artists compete on the runway for cash prizes based on the percentage of recycled material, creativity, craftsmanship and fit. The event encourages recycling, creative reuse, and sustainable fashion solutions in an eclectic, inspiring and humorous production.

The 2009 event was again hosted by Portland Mayor Sam Adams. His new co-host this year was Portland Mercury's Managing Editor, Marjorie Skinner.  Also backing up the event with live music, the “Junk to Funk House Jazz Band” and Junquestra who entertain the audience at intermission with a concert from instruments make completely of junk.

Sustainable Today's new hosts Cheri Stuller and Rafael Siegel host the show from the "Green Carpet"  where they interview designers, models, winners, the mayor the organizer of the event Lindsey Newkirk and anyone else they can get ahold of.  The gala event held at Portland's Crystal Ballroom was much larger and more glamorous than ever before.