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Philippine designer fashions gowns out of recycled trash

Nora Buenviaje prepares a used sack of rice, to be sewn into a dress, at her shop in Cainta, Rizal Province, Philippines, March 3, 2022. [REUTERS/Lisa Marie David]

Lenora Buenviaje has been making dresses out of waste materials for the past seven years and says wearing clothes made from such items as recycled newspapers, plastic wrapping and rice sacks can be both economical and fashionable.

Using a foot-operated sewing machine, the 51-year-old Philippine seamstress stitches and weaves plastics and other materials into inventive and fashionable frocks and gowns, sometimes completed by headdresses.

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