Eco wedding dress unveiled at Arndale
Published: 13 April, 2011
Soon-to-be wed Kate Middleton has another dress option when she walks down the aisle with Prince William later this month – a unique re-cycled creation called ‘Green with Envy’, unveiled at Manchester Arndale on Monday.
Kate Middleton-look-a-like, Kate Bevan from Stafford, modelled the dress which is loosely styled on a 1920s theme before changing into a number of honeymoon outfits as selected by Manchester Arndale’s style advisor, Debs Hatfield. The eco wedding bouquet is from Arndale market’s Ellamia flower store.
The shopping centre commissioned local eco designer, Michelle Brand, to create the stunning wedding dress - which has taken Michelle three months to make the 8ft train and her loyal volunteers 12 days to construct the bottle layer, using 1,110 bottle bases, 6,512 bottle tops and 9,440 tags to fix it all together - to mark the Royal Wedding in an unusual way.
The dress, which weighs around 10kgs, forms the centre-piece of Manchester Arndale’s ‘Think Green’ event* on 15th and 16th April which is all about getting people to understand more clearly their impact on the environment and how everyone can each ‘do their bit’ to help.
Manchester Arndale’s general manager Glen Barkworth said: “We hope our off-the-wall idea of creating a wedding dress out of plastic bottles re-used and up-cycled from our shopping centre will capture the public’s interest as we gear-up to the royal wedding and people will want to come and view ‘Green with Envy’ in its Manchester Arndale home for the next few weeks. Praise should also go to our retailers who are supporting our environmental event by offering customers a ‘green’ alternative to plastic shopping bags.”
