Green Style: Living Dress
source: http://adorablenapalm.blogspot.com/2010/08/bicycles-and-butterflies.html
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A fashion designer and a landscape architect were asked to create an eco-friendly cross-over work of art for the Amsterdam Center for Architecture. What they came up with was a "living" dress created from wool and bicycle innertubes. The innertubes create a smocked effect which is, in actuality, a series of vases that can be filled with whatever type flower or plant you desire. Change the flowers, and you change the entire look of the gown. This is obviously not something the average fashionista is going to hang in her closet, but as a work of art, it's an astonishingly beautiful reminder that anything can be reused. These bicycle innertubes could have gone into a landfill, but instead are helping to sustain life and bring beauty into the world.
Read more: http://adorablenapalm.blogspot.com/2010/08/bicycles-and-butterflies.html
Read more: http://adorablenapalm.blogspot.com/2010/08/bicycles-and-butterflies.html
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