Repurposing

Giving an object a new use can change not only its meaning but its beauty and functionality! Check out these repurposed objects, from architecture to fashion and everything in between...
At right, a 19th-century carriage house turned studio in the Hamptons, courtesy nytimes.com.

Susie MacMurray, "A Mixture of Frailties", dress-cum-sculpture constructed from perishable latex balloons and domestic rubber gloves.
Australian Air Mail bag skirt, pictured via poupees-perdues.com. Talk about a special delivery!
Candy wrapper bracelet, courtesy ecoist.com.
Dialog recycled fabric clutch, at asos.com
Francisca Ribeiro De Souza recycled flip-top shoulder bag. Visit the MOMA store at momastore.org for this and next.
This Escama flower brooch would be a fun DIY project!
Diana Broussard vintage crystal and brass necklace, pictured via elle.com
Shell oil can chair, via nytimes.com
CC is in love with this Suzan Fellman recycled silk scarf upholstered chair! Visit suzanfellman.com for more fab fashionable seating made from re-used textiles.
Vintage belt floor mat from branchhome.com. So cool!

Recycled tin tray, at cb2.com.
Vintage suitcases as nightstand. This photo and next 2 via nytimes.com.
At right: a wall lined with paper-covered wire hangers. Taking a mundane object and making it gorgeous? Right up CC’s alley (or hallway, as the case may be!).
Alexander Calder recycled wire sculpture, currently on view at the Whitney Museum in New York.

Have you ever re-purposed an object or an item of clothing?

CC likes to use antique plates and Chinese rice bowls to hold her jewels and such...

If you have pics of your repurposed items, email them to me at carricalligraphy@gmail.com and CC will post an amalgamation of Fellow Fashionistas’ genius work!