November 20, 2007
Bill Gaylord, a founding principal of GGLO, was the headlining model at last Saturday's Trash Fashion Bash, a fundraiser for the International Sustainability Institute. Gaylord was the “Ghost of Holidaze Past and Future.”
He and Jennifer Stormant designed his costume, which featured a knitted sweater made of model railroad tracks and Christmas tree lights, trousers woven from ribbon remnants, a walking stick made of batteries, a bubble wrap cape and a headdress fashioned from plastic water bottles.
The event at the Seattle Art Museum was intended to raise awareness about the volume of waste created during the holidays.
“It is estimated that between Thanksgiving and New Year's an extra 10 million tons of waste is generated nationwide each week,” according to ISI.
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