The Dangerous Curves Dress: “This dress was an experiment with draw-strings and designing for plus-sized models. My goal was a pin-up looking pencil skirt which accented my model’s natural figure. I think that I did alright with this, but at the same time, it was more difficult than I expect. Having no formal design training, I just had to wing it on putting in darts and making my (very fickle) materials lay smooth and flat over curves. This dress was made out of black and white garbage backs with a danger tape belt. Worn by Kassandra Sandacker.”
Penny Lingerie: “Gabrielle Deede is modeling the Penny Piece, a lingerie item crafted out of melted and sewn garbage bags, beads, bells, and pennies. The idea was to form a sexy but not overly revealing ensemble which played up the natural beauty of my model. The panties have a ‘U’ shaped line from where the skirt starts, with each strip ending in a bead, button, bell, or penny. Then, the front of the panties are adored with pennies on their heads, and the back with pennies on tails.”
Ronnie Ryno
I was so amazed and proud of Rachel’s designs. She worked hard and put together a fantastic collection…it was so inspiring! Great job, Rachel, I’m so glad to have had you a part of this year’s Runway Renegades!
Jeff McIntire-Strasburg
Thanks for the input, Ronnie! I’m no fashionista, but I was pretty impressed with what I saw… she did some amazing things with “trash”