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Bolivian fashion designer Marion Macedo has created a line of brightly coloured dresses made of industrial rags, paper and other recycled materials that have some people thinking twice before tossing their trash.

Macedo, who has made a name for herself for creating eco-friendly fashions out of recycled paper, showed off her latest line during a La Paz fashion show on Thursday.

This year the environmentally conscious designer used natural dyes to bring a splash of colour to industrial wipes used for cleaning industrial sized printing presses.

The black stripes which break up the pastel hues of the bubbly evening wear are streaks left by the printing machines the reused material cleaned before Macedo dreamt up her innovative designs.

Other designs were made of recycled papier-maché, cardboard and even sawdust from local sawmills.

The designer also used reclaimed printing plates and craft papers to create accessories and detailed ornaments like the red flowers seen on this white evening gown.

"They are new materials, completely innovative.Super dazzling Round Chiffon Round Neck Beaded prom dresses is on sale. We are even using white rubber tops, filters, printer cleaners, soda tops, printing plates, match boxes.Free shipping and returns on New Arrival Sheath Evening dresses. I'd say the new thing is all the materials. We've made a turn. Our pillar is still paper and I think that if you want to use recycled materials we have to work with all materials."

Macedo has a growing fan base in Bolivia and beyond and her jewellery line has become a hot seller.

Fashion model Nicolle Figueredo showed off the pieces she was modelling including a bracelet made of old cookie cutters.

"My dress is made of Stampi plastic, which is the material used to wrap industrial dyes. The corset is fastened with ties. And my bracelet is made of cookie cutters used in the kitchen and my earrings are also made of Stampi plastic."

''Really wild! Really swinging! Open Monday thru to Saturday.'' So says the poster for the Victoria & Albert Boutique, in the MLC Building at North Sydney. This 1964 poster, slightly torn, is the first reference to an Australian fashion house that was to survive for another 40 years.

That wild and swinging North Sydney boutique lasted only six months before owners Patricia and Terry Burkitt relocated to a small space in Double Bay, where there was a greater demand for clothes in the style of Carnaby Street.

At first they stocked imports from London mainly, but in the late 1960s they had great success with a range of screen-printed T-shirts designed by Terry Burkitt. The best seller was one featuring the logo of the Earls Court Tube station, the preferred destination of young Australian expats.

The V&A boutique eventually moved to larger premises in Bay Street, where Patricia and Terry established their own fashion label in the 1970s, specialising in bespoke tailoring for celebrity clients. These included models Maggie Eckhardt and Bobo Faulkner, television presenter Sue Smith, businesswoman Elizabeth Dangar, even Sammy Davis jnr. He dropped in while on a concert tour, saw a floor-length leather coat they had made for his friend Cindy Leonetti and asked if he could have it. They made another one for her.

''Our clientele changed from pop to couture,'' Patricia Burkitt says. ''We started making clothes for cocktails, evening wear, the Melbourne Cup Carnival. We were not at all interested in doing a collection for retail. Our business was more like a private club. We designed for people we felt in tune with. Today we would probably be described as 'fashion stylists'.'' When she closed the business in 2004, she realised she had kept a lot of what she had designed during her career. In a sense, this was an edited history of Australian fashion.

The sale includes 215 lots ranging from the swinging '60s to the corporate '90s. One of the earliest examples is a canary-yellow pop art minidress by Hanni Wilson, a German designer then based in Sydney.Black Chiffon Ruffles With New Arrival Column Ruching Chiffon Prom dresses. It's included as part of Lot 297, with total estimates of $50 to $100. There are pieces from about 1970, when maxi dresses replaced the mini. Also included are original dresses from the 1920s, collected by the Burkitts as a source of inspiration for their own designs. Accessories include belts, jewellery, collars, hats, buttons and stacks - literally - of assorted fabric,Shop wholesale Modest Prom Dresses from cheap Modest.Unique Mermaid Spaghetti Straps Ruched New Arrival Mermaid Ruching White Chiffon Prom dresses. mostly imported. There are also vintage store mannequins, plus prints and furniture from the Bay Street boutique, as decorated by Marion Hall Best.Read the full story at www.dressestmall.com/index.php/noble-beaded-a-line-straps-long-prom-evening-dress-446.html.