TITLE: Founder
COMPANY: Trashion Fashion Show
LOCATION: Hartford
YEAR STARTED: 2011
WEB:
www.trashionfashionshow.com
INFO: All designs in Trashion
Fashion shows are made
from 90 percent materials
that would otherwise be in
the waste stream.
GREEN WARRIOR: AMY MERLI
PHOTO | CONTRIBUTED
Fashionable Garbage
By Kathryn M. Roy
W
ith a passion for environmental activism and a background in dance
and performing arts, Amy Merli of Harwinton has married her inter-
ests into a unique venture called the Trashion Fashion Show.
Merli's creation is designed to inspire the community to rethink waste
by providing an outlet for youth, artists, and designers to create fashionable
items with materials otherwise headed for the waste stream.
Merli, a professional dancer and yoga instructor, organized her first show
in Hartford in 2011.
"The show had ballerinas and trashion designs, so we kept that theme, bring-
Merli in one of her trashion fashion
designs, wearing plastic diaper
bags and a white plastic top.
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