Trashion
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Trashion is a term for clothing and accessories created from used, thrown-out, found, and repurposed elements. The term was coined in New Zealand in 2004 and gained in usage through 2005. Trashion is
A 2010 trashion fashion show held at the University of Minnesota Morris.
A woman in Ghana wearing a dress made of repurposed waste.
Valentino evening gown for Audrey Hepburn
Found object
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A found object, or found art, is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have
Trashion
…used, thrown-out, found, and repurposed elements. The term was coined in New Zealand in 2004 and gained in usage through 2005. Trashion is a subgenre of found object art, which is basically using objects that already have some other defined purpose, and turning them into art. In this case, trash is used. Initially…
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917; photograph by Alfred Stieglitz
Alphonse Allais, Des souteneurs encore dans la force de l'âge et le ventre dans l'herbe boivent de l'absinthe, carriage curtain, before 1897.
An Oak Tree by Michael Craig-Martin; 1973
Junk art at Oak Street Beach