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'Trashion' Trend: Dumpster Couture Gets a Boost at Green Inaugural Ball
The Wall Street Journal ^
| 01-13-09
| STEPHANIE SIMON
Posted on 01/13/2009 7:12:35 AM PST by GOP_Lady
Designer Judd Will Be Showing Off a Coat of Many Colorful Obama Posters
SANTA FE, N.M. -- In the world of trashy fashion, designer Nancy Judd has hit the big time.
Nancy Judd Ms. Judd spends her days in a studio here crafting clothing from castoff plastic bags, electrical wire and old cassette tapes. Now, her Dumpster couture has caught the eye of environmental activists, who plan to showcase her work in Washington at Saturday's Green Inaugural Ball honoring President-elect Barack Obama.
The star piece: A man's coat made from Mr. Obama's campaign fliers. She says it took her 200 hours to cut and paste and sew it.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coronation; fashion; green; inaugural; inauguration; obama
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To: GOP_Lady
No surprise.
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01/14/2009 12:25:06 AM PST
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Slings and Arrows
(0bama must be well-endowed - look at how often he steps on his d---.)
To: gorush
"You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen!"
--Vizzini, The Princess Bride
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posted on
01/14/2009 12:30:53 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(0bama must be well-endowed - look at how often he steps on his d---.)
To: Slings and Arrows
I don’t type well enough to make it worthwhile to tell you how funny that is to me, but thanks...and I must now watch that d##n movie.
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posted on
01/14/2009 12:34:40 AM PST
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gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: gorush
You’re welcome. That movie’s one of the best.
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01/14/2009 12:48:02 AM PST
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Slings and Arrows
(0bama must be well-endowed - look at how often he steps on his d---.)
To: zoso82t; DManA
"Let me show you Derelicte. It is a fashion, a way of life inspired by the very homeless, the vagrants, the crack whores that make this wonderful city so unique."
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01/14/2009 5:48:13 AM PST
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Xenalyte
(Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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