determined to put a highlight on their shared concerns about the style industry and the ambiance, New Trier high college students Greta Zimmer and Val Kilborn joined forces this week to host a sustainable neighborhood trend demonstrate.
Zimmer, sixteen, and Kilborn, 17, both of Winnetka, are enrolled in New Trier's integrated international experiences college, and have been each independently gaining knowledge of a topic for their end of semester projects when they found they each had been investigating the fashion trade, Zimmer said.
"Val turned into learning 'quickly fashion,' which is the mass production of clothing without re-the use of fabrics and its influence on the ambiance, and i become how younger fashions may also be exploited and put in dangerous situations on account of an absence of laws and regulations in the trade," said Zimmer.
The realization that their research turned into intertwined induced the young adults to collaborate for an "motion research assignment" that protected organizing a fashion exhibit fundraiser "concentrated on sustainability, mannequin safeguard, charity, and female empowerment," Zimmer mentioned.
On Saturday evening, the young adults' months of complicated work became rewarded with success when 130 enviornment residents gathered at Winnetka Congregational Church, elevating $1,300 to be donated to a slate of charities, and gathering 15 bags of donated clothing.
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visitors got here out for the eco-friendly Butterfly fashion exhibit and are living music adventure focused on sustainability, charity and model safeguard at Winnetka Congregational Church on can also 18, 2019.
visitors came out for the eco-friendly Butterfly fashion exhibit and are living music experience concentrated on sustainability, charity and mannequin defense at Winnetka Congregational Church on can also 18, 2019. (Mark Kodiak Ukena/Pioneer Press)
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New Trier senior Bennetr Blake, left, talks about his paintings to Anita Azubuike and Kim Kator all the way through the green Butterfly reveal on may additionally 18, 2019, in Winnetka.
New Trier senior Bennetr Blake, left, talks about his artwork to Anita Azubuike and Kim Kator throughout the eco-friendly Butterfly exhibit on may also 18, 2019, in Winnetka. (Mark Kodiak Ukena / Pioneer Press)
Zimmer and Kilborn labored with fellow student Stevie Bianco on designing and growing the clothes.
all of the fashions that had been modeled on Saturday were produced from discarded fabric and other objects that were headed for the trash.
The trend exhibit/fundraiser additionally featured a reveal of works by means of local artists, and performances through local musicians, Zimmer pointed out.
"i hope that all and sundry who attended the vogue demonstrate realized a bit extra in regards to the quick fashion business and its impact on the atmosphere, and discovered that you can have a a hit trend reveal with protected and healthy models," she added.
New Trier's integrated international stories faculty, which officers this month recognized with a tenth anniversary get together, "is designed to give a small school setting for junior and senior college students who are smitten by studying, and who wish to support direct the path of their personal education, emphasizing an experiential, inquiry-based learning," spokeswoman Lia Kass spoke of.
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New Trier scholar Virginia Fische walks down the runway during the eco-friendly Butterfly style exhibit.
New Trier student Virginia Fische walks down the runway right through the eco-friendly Butterfly trend exhibit. (Mark Kodiak Ukena/Pioneer Press)
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New Trier scholar Xariah Chase walks down the runway throughout the green Butterfly style exhibit on can also 18, 2019.
New Trier scholar Xariah Chase walks down the runway all through the eco-friendly Butterfly fashion demonstrate on might also 18, 2019. (Mark Kodiak Ukena/Pioneer Press)
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New Trier scholar Val Kilborn walks down the runway all the way through the eco-friendly Butterfly trend show on may additionally 18, 2019 in Winnetka.
New Trier pupil Val Kilborn walks down the runway all over the eco-friendly Butterfly style exhibit on may also 18, 2019 in Winnetka. (Mark Kodiak Ukena / Pioneer Press)
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