The outfit — titled “Tags and Bags” — is a corset and skirt Vazquez made of Ziploc baggies with hand-punched confetti from old price tags from her store.

It will make its runway debut today at the “Trash Couture” Earth Day fashion show BluSeed Studios and the Wild Center’s Youth Climate Program are holding at the Garagery tonight.

Vazquez said she started designing this outfit since the moment she learned about the show, scrolling social media at night. It was right up her alley. She’s been creating upcycled and recycled fashion since she was a kid.

“It reduces waste … and it’s more fun,” Vazquez said.

Main Street Exchange owner Tori Vazquez shows off the purse she made from recycled price tags and a plastic baggie from her shop, which will make its debut at the “Trash Couture” Earth Day fashion show at the Garagery tonight. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

She started in fashion design in middle school with a dream of being the youngest fashion designer. It was too late.

“There were already younger ones, but I still kept that dream,” Vazquez said.

She was a self-described “chonky girl” and couldn’t find cute clothes in her size, so she’d make them herself and wear them to school. She got a sustainability degree at Paul Smith’s College and then came to own the consignment shop. All of these factors got her to do what she really loves, hand-crafting fashion.

Not only does it cut back on clothing waste, she said, the pieces that get made are completely unique. No one else has an outfit like hers, she said, and seeing all the other outfits coming to tonight’s show inspires creativeness, she added.

Vazquez described a chain of inspiration that led to tonight’s show. Restored by Design founder Martha Jackson approached her about doing a show a number of months ago, and she organized a Saranac Lake Winter Carnival fashion show at the Garagery. Vazquez said BluSeed Executive Administrator Marissa Hernandez was at that show and was inspired to do an Earth Day trash fashion show.

Main Street Exchange owner Tori Vazquez shows off the bracelet she made from recycled plastic baggies, which will make its debut at the “Trash Couture” Earth Day fashion show at the Garagery tonight. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Marbone)

“What’s more Saranac Lake than that?” she asked. “And on Earth Day, too.”

She said other outfits will be made from recycled K-cups, bangles and CDs.

“I knew I had to do something with the tags because I hoard them,” Vazquez said of the skirt.

Each item in the store has a tag with the price and the name of the consigner so she knows where the sales money goes. But after the deal is done, she holds onto them to recycle the scraps of paper. But the store does not have recycling, so they build up.

“I’ve been sitting here for days filling up my jar of confetti,” Vazquez said, holding up a jar of the round punches.

She actually made too much, so she made a polka-dotted purse using the confetti and another plastic bag.

Doors open at 6 p.m., and the show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for students if purchased in advance and $30 and $20 at the door. Proceeds will benefit BluSeed and the Wild Center.

A store mannequin — “Ashley” — will wear the outfit in the store for the rest of the month.