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Podcast: WARDROBE CRISIS with Clare Press
Episode: Marina Debris â The grotesque beauty of trashion
Description: In our final Episode for Plastic Free July, Clare interviews American visual artist Marina DeBris. Marina calls herself a âtrashionâ designer, as well as an environmental activist, and anti-plastics campaigner. She makes her "Beach Couture" collections from rubbish she finds washed up on beaches.There's a history of fashion designers referencing refuse. John Galliano's controversial Couture 2000 collection for Christian Dior featured newspaper prints inspired by homeless people's makeshift blankets. Vivienne Westwood has also dabbled in derelicte chic (like Mugatu in Zoolander). Jean Paul Gaultier once made a frock out of a bin liner â he named it his ârubbish bag dressâ...