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Trash-To-Fashion Ball Brings Eco-Friendly Flair To Bregamos
by Adrian Huq | The Arts Paper | October 14th, 2025
“When you pick up something, think about what else it could be,” artist Rebekah Fraser advised an audience of eager workshop attendees ready to transform textile scraps and trash into fashion. At a table in front of her, Hamden resident Lola Fain sat with her late mother’s embroidered tablecloth, ready to breathe new life into a beloved family heirloom.
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Trash to Fashion Challenges Fast Fashion Mentality Amid Record High Textile Waste Numbers
by Staff | Dwight Hall News | September 30th, 2025
Trash to Fashion and the organization’s founder Rebekah Fraser ’03 are fighting against the fast fashion mentality that has led the world to produce 92 million tons of textile waste every year. Rebekah is a Yale alumna, having earned her BA in Film Studies and Screenwriting, then a writing MFA from Seton Hill University. Since 2007, Fraser has been interested in upcycled clothing and, with Dwight Hall’s Emerging Project support, Trash to Fashion has opened, and it is changing the way people view their clothes.
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A "Trashionista" Takes New Haven By Storm
by Lucy Gellman | The Arts Paper | August 14, 2025
On the Tuesday morning Rebekah Fraser opens the door to 63 Audubon St., the temperature is already in the high 80s, and only climbing. Outside, the air is still and heavy, the kind of humid that sticks to one’s skin like shrinkwrap. Inside, the mannequins are quiet, as if they have been sleeping.
When the lights come on, their clothes come alive: a vest fashioned from an old target bag makes conversation with a dress that was once a shiny plastic tablecloth.
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https://www.newhavenarts.org/arts-paper/articles/a-trashionista-takes-new-haven-by-storm
WOW Radio with Brian Smith & Pam Landry
on WOW Radio | August 4, 2025 11:30 am
Nyberg: How one woman turns ‘Trash to Fashion’
on WTNH-TV News Channel 8 | July 30, 2025 4:30 pm
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — We’ve all heard the saying “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”
One woman in New Haven is taking that saying literally, starting an organization called “Trash to Fashion”.
Anybody interested in making donations can click on the link here, which will redirect them to a PayPal created by Dwight Hall at Yale.
One Man’s Trash …
by JISU SHEEN | New Haven Independent | Jul 29, 2025 8:30 am
Before leaving for artist and curator Rebekah Fraser’s Trash to Fashion show opening Friday afternoon, New Haven fashion designer Donald Carter made sure to say goodbye to his kittens Nerfertiti and Hercules, cuddled in a ball together.
Keep reading: https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/one_mans_trash
Love Babz Love Talk with Rebekah
on WNHH-FM 103.5 | July 24, 2025
‘TRASH TO FASHION’ TOPIC DU JOUR IN NEW HAVEN STARTING JULY 19
by Michael Chaiken | CTFashionMag.com | July 17, 2025
Trash gets stylish this July as the Trash To Fashion, a zero-waste event series, kicks off in Connecticut.
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https://www.ctfashionmag.com/trash-to-fashion-topic-du-jour-in-new-haven-starting-july-19/
Arts Respond with Lucy Gelman
on WNHH-FM 103.5 | July 11, 2025
Just-In Time Conversations
on WNHH-FM 103.5 | July 2, 2025
