By SARAH JOHNSON CORRESPONDENT The 4th Annual Hartford Trashion Fashion Show, in collaboration with Evergreen Design Co., will be held Saturday, April 19 at Hartford City Hall, 550 Main St., Hartford from 6 – 9 pm This announcement begs the obvious question … What is Trashion? The mission is simple. “Trashion Fashion is a community-driven event that inspires and creates awareness through recycled design. We will empower our audience to reduce, reuse and recycle clean waste while creating art and providing education.” Trashion Fashion is a concept, an event, and a sustainable lifestyle dreamt up by Harwinton native Amy Merli four years ago. “The original idea was to blend dance with trash,” Amy, a ballet dancer herself, explained. “I made newspaper skirts and did a photo shoot in the East Main Street factory in Forestville and used waste from my sister’s baby shower to do that whole show. The first official one was in Middletown.” At that time, Southington resident Rachel DeCavage, of the recent business Sugarplum, USA got involved and had several outfits in the show. (Rachel has since transformed her business into a booming Etsy shop called Cinder & Salt.) “The next year I had about 10 designers [...]
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