Monday, July 23, 2012

Hongkonger's artistic solution to plastic bag excess -- wear them

by Hiufu Wong

rwb330Hong Kong's plastic bag concept store. Must be the first of its kind.

You know how jeans started as workaday clothes for cowboys in the Old West and have become essential fashion items?

A new concept store, rwb330, is trying to do the same with Hong Kong's plastic bags.

Artist Stanley Wong Ping-pui, who goes by the moniker anothermountainman, has turned the signature red, white and blue-striped plastic canvas bags into handbags and clothing. 

Proceeds from sales go to benefit the New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, an organization that helps recovering mental illness patients.

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Source: http://rss.cnngo.com/~r/cnngo/~3/mYFiBMs1_wU/rwb330-727470

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