Category: past events
What we hope you did not Miss!
Haute Trash at Berkeley Salsa Festival
Haute Trash had a fabulous time, hosting a selfie photo booth at the Ecology Center’s Berkeley Farmers’ Market Salsa Festival! Festival attendees were able to put on some trashy attire and have their photo taken. Fabulous live music and salsa dancing were enjoyed by all. Above are your booth hostesses, Lotta Rubbish and Prima Debris.
Haute Trash’s New Earth Revue
We made quite an Earth Day commotion at the Wild Eye Pub, with our first show in over TWO years! Our “NEW EARTH REVIEW” was met with wild enthusiasm, with a sell out crowd! We featured over 60 designs from a dozen trashy designers. Master of Ceremonies Cosmo Merryweather guided us through a thought-provoking look into what’s new in the world of recycled fashion. Haute Trash maintains its lifetime guarantee that YOU WILL NEVER LOOK AT YOUR TRASH THE SAME AGAIN.
Phoenix, in “Trellis Less”, designed by Belle Star.
Three beautiful sisters! Karina, Jun, and Lily, in designs by Ivanna B. Green, Belle Star, and Garbie D’Trash.
Bonna, wearing Rayona Visqueen’s “Your Own Personal Greenhouse”.
Pivot – The Art of Fashion
Haute Trash was so excited to participate in our first showing since the pandemic! Five of our designers featured six pieces in this fabulous art fashion show in beautiful Santa Cruz, CA. The show was outdoors at the Tannery Arts Center. It’s always a pleasure to work with the professional team at Pivot!
Katie modeling Prima Debris’ Silver Bubble Cocktail Dress.
Lotta Rubbish in her “Queen of My Pandemic Garden”.
Jymiah wearing Elvira Mental’s “Return of the Sweater Coat”.
Indigo wearing Prima Debris’ “Upward Spiral”.
Daria wearing Rayona Visqueen’s “River Raft Rendezvous”.
Katie, modeling Toxic Waste’s “Garden Gothic”.
Trash is the New Black – A Fall Fashion Fest
October 23, 2019
Haute Trash returned to the Wild Eye Pub with an all-new line up of fantastic trash fashions! Trash is the New Black, or hadn’t you heard? We’re keeping up with latest in recycled trends! Our emcees, Mikail Graham and Kenny Miele were our hosts, as we explored what can be done with discarded items that just can’t seem to make their way to the landfill. A grand time was had on Wild Eye’s Recycle Runway!
Haute Trash is a social fashion commentary satire, examining the wastefulness of American culture, and stressing the potential for transforming the way we use resources in our lives.
PiVot: the Art of Fashion
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Rio Theater, Santa Cruz CA
Expect the unexpected. Pivot: The Art of Fashion returned to the Rio Theatre, with a fabulous night of performance fashion, where artist’s creations transcend the imagination and designer’s collections awe the crowd and blur the lines between fashion and art.
Haute Trash featured a dozen designs, by artists Elvira Mental Werks, Prima Debris, Lotta Rubbish, Trashy Designs, and Radiant Waste Productions.
Ridgestock Music & Sustainability Festival
August 16 & 17, 2019
Haute Trash was super excited to return to the Ridgestock Festival, after fifteen years. It was fun to help them celebrate 20 years of putting on this epic event on the San Juan Ridge! This was the last hurrah for the event, so how appropriate that Haute Trash was there to present the latest in recycled fashions!
We presented a “teaser” show on Friday evening, featuring our local youth and teens, and some of our all-star models. The sultry Daria Kent served as our MC. And then a full length show was presented Saturday night, hosted by local celeb, Mikail Graham. What a fantastic and receptive crowd! We rallied 25 of our best models and featured 36 designs, which were a retrospective of the last 20 years of trash fashion design. We really felt at home, as Haute Trash has its roots DEEP in the San Juan Ridge! What a great show. We wish the best in her new endeavors to Ridgestock producer, Roo Cantada.
Berkeley Farmers Market Salsa Festival!
Haute Trash was thrilled to partner with the Ecology Center in Berkeley to present a fantastic trash fashion photo booth at the Center’s Salsa Festival! We provided all kinds of hats and trashy garments for dressing up for your “Haute Trash Selfie”!
The festival featured salsa dancing and lessons, salsa tastings and competitions, food demos, an kids eco fun zone, and much much more!
Recycled Materials Runway Event
Oregon Country Fair
July 12 – 14, 2019
Haute Trash couldn’t have been any more thrilled about returning to the Oregon Country Fair for their 50th Anniversary! We presented six shows that were made from 100% OCF TRASH. Yes, that’s right, an entire fashion show created from YOUR trash left behind at Oregon Country Fair. Our agents spent countless hours gathering up cool trash at last year’s fair. They visited vendors, worked with the recycling crew, and yes, dug through dumpsters after the fair was deserted. All this trash was cleaned and packaged and distributed to our designers, who turned it into this summer’s runway sensations! We performed at Stage Left, the Stewardship Stage in Xavanadu Meadow, and a surprise appearance at Chez Ray’s Gritz La Ritz on Friday night! Big Fun was had by all!
Climate Change Fashion
Haute Trash Presents – Climate Change Fashion – What to Wear for Global Warming
April 20, 2019
HAUTE TRASH rocked the Wild Eye Pub, as Earth Day turned to NIGHT. Has global warming got you down? Unsure of how to make long-range plans for your wardrobe? Well, Haute Trash put on a show to lift your spirits with a runway full of eclectic recycled designs, all created to amaze and engage! Our fabulous line up of models included owners and staff of the pub, and our emcees, Kenny Miele and Lotta Rubbish were relentlessly questioning reality!
Our fully engaged audience cheered on our models and designers as they presented some 40 designs on the runway that the Wild Eye created for us! The show included many vintage pieces that hadn’t been seen in more than a decade, as well as several new designs by new designers. And a lot of haute swimwear filled in our line up. Photos by Adrian Schneider.
“In a Jiffy” by Lotta Rubbish. Model: Marilyn.
“Bird Feed Bag Bikini” by Mr. Trashwell. Model: Haily.
“River Survival Gear” by Garbie D’Trash. Model: Lily.
“Layers of Leis” by Redusa D’Trash. Model: Juniper
PARC Presents Wild & Scenic Film Fest on Tour
March 16, 2019
Haute Trash was proud to present a small fashion show at PARC’s presentation of the Wild and Scenic Festival. Students from Placer High’s Key Club walked the runway as our models, as we presented the latest in recycled fashions, designed to keep the audience abreast of the trash issues of our planet. The packed house proved to be a most appreciative audience, and our models mingled during intermission, to give our fans an up-close look at the fantastic designs.
Green Glam SF
Green Glam SF is an environmental movement celebration uniting all sustainable industries, global leaders, conscious citizens, integrative health, transformational leaders and all communities with the commitment to environmental preservation and the health of future generations.
San Francisco Sustainable Fashion Week International is proud to announce that the Green Glam SF became an Official Affiliated event of the Global Climate Action Summit 2018. Haute Trash was proud to be a part of this amazing event.
Haute Trash presents “Planet or Plastic?”
Haute Trash was thrilled to return to our roots: the Nevada Theatre in Beautiful downtown Nevada City, CA. It was 30 years ago, that we performed our infamous “8-8-88” show at the oldest continuously running theatre in California. This was the show where we introduced the name “Hot Trash”, (which later morphed into “Haute Trash” in 1990.) We put on two fantastic shows, celebrating 30 years of trash fashion. We welcomed designers from all around the country and beyond: Vancouver BC, Connecticut, Oregon, Hawaii, Idaho, Colorado, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, San Jose…as well as our local designers.
Our production also featured a slide show, spanning our 30 year history, and a “Good News Show” with hosts Mikail Graham and Elisa Parker, highlighting some of the GOOD things that are happening for our environment. We offer a big thanks to our two major sponsors: Paint Care, and Grass Valley Courtyard Suites!
Recycle, Restyle, Revamp Fashion Show
Haute Trash was thrilled to turn over the reins of this annual fashion show to the University of Central Missouri’s Fashion and Merchandising Department. Since 2010, Haute Trash members have traveled to Missouri for this Earth Day feature presentation on the UCM campus. We worked in tandem with the University, local schools and many talented local fashion designers to present a show, which has become a UCM favorite over the years.
This year, Haute Trash contributed a handful of designs to the show, via the US Mail! This is a much more eco-friendly way of participating for Haute Trash! Though we really did miss being there, and seeing all the fabulous local designs.
Kudos to the students and staff at UCM for their excellent work, bringing recycling awareness to the midwest!
Blue Marble Jubilee
Haute Trash was once again a feature show at the Blue Marble Jubilee! This colorful, village-style Earth-centered festival for families and the entire community benefits the Grass Valley Charter School. Our models were the fabulous staff and students from the Charter School, sporting our wondrous recycled designs. We were happy to share the bill with local band, Achilles Wheel.