Filipino maids model works of couture art created from household rubbish

Filipino maids lining up on a stage during a fashion show and beauty pageant they dubbed "Trashion". - ST

SINGAPORE: For four hours on one of their Sundays off, about a dozen Filipino maids strutted on a stage inside the HFSE International School on Mountbatten Road wearing dazzling, colourful gowns and dresses made out of what otherwise would have been trash.

On their bodies were bottle caps, sachets, plastic wrappers, reusable shopping bags, newspapers, milk cartons and plastic spoons.