Baseball Puffball Dress
My family have a a certain dislike towards second-hand shops. Actually, 'dislike' might be an understatement, 'fear' would be a better word choice. My only visits to a second-hand shop was to Goodwills to donate clothing, and when I asked my aunt to go to the shopping side of goodwills, she gave me the look. I never understood why some people look down on second-hand items. Sometimes you can find useful and interesting things that you can longer buy in a normal store. Thrift store is like heaven to vintage lovers. Yet many people associate it with being poor. Fashion designer Gary Harvey realizes this as decided to do something that will make people rethink their perception of second-hand clothing.
Military Dress
"I believe we can contribute to an ethical fashion revolution." he says in his website. "By sourcing fabrics and raw materials that have literally been thrown away, you can look good and be good too. Too many garments are deemed aesthetically redundant and discarded at the end of a season, when there are still many years of wear left."
Denim Dress
His first project is a dress made with 42 pairs of used Levi jeans. Soon his passion of creating eco-friendly cloths grew, and he created more ball-gowns using second-hand materials. Now, Harvey's dress collection have been in many exhibitions and even expanded to taking private commissions.
Newspaper Dress
I find this project absolutely fascinating. For the last decades everything are trying to be 'eco-friendly'. 'Eco-friendly power scoures', 'eco-friendly travling', 'eco-friendly living'... Yet many people buying a prom dress that they will probably wear once before it is tucked away, and people are throwing away perfectly fine jacket that are apparently 'out of season'. Ball-gowns are one of these 'wear-once-per-year' and 'easily-out-dated' but 'cost-more-then-my-yearly-salary' luxuries. And Harvey use material that have been thrown away to make glamorous, and perhaps awakening, dresses.
Wedding Dress
Visit Gary Harvey at http://www.garyharveycreative.com/
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