- We are celebrating ideas of identity and playing dress-up and being queer.

- There's like a cheeky or mischievous vibe in Bonanza.

That maybe we've pulled one over.

The tagline of the show, "Fashion Made of Garbage," maybe people are coming expecting like a middle school sense of craft, bottle caps glued to tee shirts or something.

But then, we give them a little bit more.

Something that's like very audacious.

In the confusion, maybe people become a little more open minded, see something they haven't seen everyday.

- Even confused about is this fashion, is this performance, is this art?

And who is Bonanza?

- Yeah, what is Bonanza?

- As we say we're a platform for others, we will design or curate a situation.

Then we'll let other people perform it.

We obviously don't have a background in fashion.

I mean we call it "fashun," S-H-U-N, you know the shunning of the industry.

- We've kind of created this brand identity, where we wanna play with those ideas, but kind of twist it or angle it out, in our particular sensibility.

We're one of the few collaborative artists, to work with Recology.

- They have a four-month long art residency, where you have access to the public dump and a studio.

- Ninety-nine percent of what you make has to be from the dump.

- Part of the deal is that you're kind of on display for public tours that come through.

This one has like a cathedral-like le motif.

- This is fake grass spray painted black.

- Imagine J-Lo on the red carpet, made out of a hammock.

- This is the be-your-own-bag look.

You literally, you put the straps around your collar so you're basically carrying yourself.

- We like to push our garments so they have a conceptual edge.

We're pretty good at making very convincing clothes.

Like they might on the inside look like spiders sewed them, but on the outside they do look pretty good, pretty finished garments.

- At the beginning of the residency, it's really about suiting up and hitting the pile a couple times a day.

- It's an emotional toll.

It makes you feel like a weight just seeing all of that.

- It's just like "oh no, the Earth," then you can feel the velocity of the city changing.

You see like a lot of things come from like old homes in San Francisco.

Someone is like flipping a house to make it into like a luxury home.

- Towards the end of the residency we kind of stopped going as often.

Lana kept going.

She was, became a little obsessed with the pile.

Lana found - - A brand new Kitchen Aid mixer in the box.

- The pile provides.

It giveth and it taketh.

- It does!

It giveth and it taketh.

- Lana lost her cell phone in the pile.

- Wow that's a look.

- We did sanitize all of our things, because we knew they were going to go on people's bodies.

- Let's get a good accessory.

Maybe something metal.

- We use our larger community of artist, friends, a lot of queer people in nightlife, to help us perform.

- You also look like a superhero.

- We really try to have this wide range of different looks.

- Oh wow.

Yeah.

- I'm wearing a plastic tarpy material halter top and then my pants are made out of the big Lowes hardware bags.

It's like what you would put maybe like mulch in if you were buying that.

- How do you feel?

- I feel great.

- This looks good.

- I don't know how Bonanza did it, but they look pretty rad.

- You're going to walk to the end, you're going to do a much longer pose.

- I'm usually not a performer.

Bonanza I think is the only group that could get me to do something like this.

They always make you feel really positive, really confident, like we're walking like New York Fashion Week or something.

- And at the end of the runway do one last ... - We're Bonanza, we're starting here in a couple minutes.

If you see something you like, it could be yours.

- The show is feeling like a much bigger experiment.

- Bam.

- We like to make people feel like we're empowering them.

We think of them as like professional and their time is valuable.

Maybe in the way to like set them up to ask for what they want and get it.

- Everyone looks so great.

- Yeah.

- Because we spend a lot of time making this world for us.

- I'm wearing this silver, geometric piece.

I actually feel quite powerful wearing it and beautiful.

There's something about Bonanza's energy.

They pump us up and they make us feel like a community.

- I love the fact that everyone kind of has their own sense of walking the runway, and I just love that sensation of like all eyes on me, just working.

Yes.

Like a real rush.

- It's at that like golden hour right when like the sun is setting.

Everyone is glowing.

And everyone's just really lifting each other up.