15th Annual Trashion Fashion Show

Dates for 2025:
Applications Due on or before Friday, March 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Design Review: March 23 – April 9, 2025 by appointment
Rehearsal with Runway Coach: April 18, 2025 (Participation is Mandatory)
Runway Show date/time: April 19, 2025: 2:00 pm & 5:00 pm shows
Runway Location: Sonoma Veteran’s Memorial Hall, 126 E. 1st St. W., Sonoma CA 95476
Trash Bash Wrap Party: April 26, 2025 – Saturday - time TBA (not mandatory)
Trash Bash Location: Sonoma Community Center, 276 E. Napa St., Sonoma CA 95476

How to apply: Entries due on or before March 14, 2025

• Fill out this application form
• Your application will be acknowledged and confirmed via email once received.
• Submit application fee(non-refundable or transferable)

Design Review March 23-April 9 (Mandatory)
Design Review meetings will be scheduled between March 23 – April 9. This is a ½ hour meeting with the runway show copywriters. This is the time for you to tell the story of your piece, what inspired you, how you made it, what materials you used, and discuss hair and makeup design, and music selection. You will need to bring: Your Trashion design, model’s contact info, a list of the materials that you used (for example: 49 discarded plastic spoons, 100 used tea bags), a final decision on music you would like to use for the Runway. (Note: Music must be clean, no explicit lyrics)

Changes to your concept and/or materials will not be accepted after this meeting.

 

Rehearsal with Runway coach: Friday, April 18 (Mandatory)
Runway rehearsals for everyone will take place from 4:00 pm-9:30 pm. If you are an adult, please schedule to be available the entire time! These are not scheduled appointments. Only kids and teens will be dismissed earlier when the runway coach has announced dismissal. All models must be prepared to change into their outfits and practice with the shoes, hats, and any accessories to be worn in the show.

 

Runway show: Saturday, April 19 (TWO shows, 2pm and 5pm)
Participants must be available from 11:00 am - 8:30 pm on April 19.
Disclosure! Participants in the Kids category (9- 13 years) might only participate at the 2 PM slot.
TBD

Trash Bash Wrap Party! Saturday, April 26, 2025 (Optional)
You and all of your supporters are invited to attend! Wear or exhibit your piece at the free Trash Bash that will take place at the Sonoma Community Center! Meet the public who love to see the designs up close, and participate in the Trashion Show awards ceremony for the 15th annual Trashion runway designers. In addition, the closing gallery auction of the Trashion Barbies: Reclaimed and Reinvented, along with food, drinks and raffles.

Rules of Entry

1. Create a wearable outfit, made of trash, recycled, upcycled, pre-worn, used materials. You can use items rescued from the trash and/or purchased at a thrift store.
2. Do not use materials that have NOT BEEN previously used, even if you consider it trash. For example: brand new garbage bags or an unopened package of plastic cups. All materials should be reused and recycled… saving them from ending up in landfill if you hadn’t picked them to use in your art.
3. Outfits must be safely worn on the human body, should allow models to walk up and down stairs, and be able to be removed and put back on without a lot of difficulty.
4. NO GLITTER
5. Junior participants are encouraged to take complete control of their design and construction process. Runway judges may inquire and use their discretion if a junior participant’s work appears to be primarily created by an adult, which could result in being moved into the adult design category. Feedback and suggestions will be offered during the review sessions.
6. Participants are responsible for providing a model to wear their garment in the show. You may act as your own model. All designers can design an outfit for a child, teen, or adult. Groups, non-profits, businesses and clubs may work on a design together.
7. NEW for 2025! Due to the large number of entries in the past, and to limit the length of the runway show, we are asking participants to limit one entry per designer/s. Each entry may have a couple or a team of models/outfits, as long as their runway walk time is same as it would be for a single outfit.
8. All designers and models must attend the scheduled rehearsal on Friday, April 18 in order to appear in the show on Saturday, April 19.
9. Designers must attend one design review meeting, scheduled for ½ hour from March 23 – April 9.
10. Artists and models must be willing to collaborate with Sonoma Community Center in regards to photography, video recording, interviews, blog postings and any other promotional activities. All participants must be willing to be photographed. By signing this application, you agree that these images and video clips may be used for publicity purposes.
11. Sonoma Community Center reserves the right to decline participation in the fashion show if the artist’s design is not finished, considered unsafe, not appropriate for a family audience, not made from recycled materials or for any other reason deemed necessary.

 

For additional Information contact:
Molly Spencer
molly@sonomacommuntycenter.org
(707) 938-4626 ext. 4

 

NOTE: The earlier your application arrives, the better your chances will be to select your preferred design review time.

This year the Trashion categories judged by the Trashion Runway Judges have 
changed from numerical placement (1st - 3rd) to categories such as most wearable,
recycled and theatrical. This is to help shed light on creativity, transforming
unconventional materials and storytelling. Putting the trash back into Trashion
Fashion!