Taylor Swift fans caused an artist to sell out of some unique merch: trash collected from outside the singer’s wedding to Travis Kelce in New York.
Justin Gignac dressed in tuxedo to collect trash from the streets outside Madison Square Garden after the July 3 wedding, and arranged the pieces into small sculptures encased in airtight plastic cubes.
The trash collected by Gignac includes cigarette butts, paper cups, plastic straws, scraps of fabric, an ovulation test kit, plastic bags, candy wrappers a single left AirPod.
“There’s garbage on the floor after the party. Collected from the edge of a love story outside Madison Square Garden, as close to Taylor & Travis’ big day as you could’ve gotten without an invite,” Gignac wrote on his website.
He said in an Instagram post that his manner of dress caused some fans outside the venue to confuse him for a wedding guest, but he explained all of his trash came from outside the celebration.
“I was not invited, unfortunately, so I was not able to get any of that good, good garbage from the inside,” he told radio station CKIS-FM.
The plastic cubes, each emblazoned with the words “JUST&T MARRIED” and the date of the wedding, were priced at $25 on his website. He said Swifties have already purchased all of the available cubes.
“I made 50. I call it ‘Pocket Garbage,’ $25 each,” he told CBS New York. “The bigger cubes are $100 for regular garbage.”
Gignac has been collecting trash in New York City — and occasionally other U.S. cities — for years and selling them online to commemorate special local events.
“I’ve made wedding cubes before. I put the vows in, the ring boxes, table numbers, all that stuff,” he said. “So I’ve got a cube for [Swift and Kelce] if they want it.”
