When Elena Marshall is done showing off her award-winning “living dress,” she’ll bury it in her backyard. The dress, a chic design with a strapless bodice and flouncy skirt, is made of recycled burlap and trimmed with real grass from chia seeds. Marshall, a fashion design major at Arizona State University, won the Eco-Chic Design Contest and Showcase last Friday, a student-run event that featured sustainable fashion designs made by eight ASU students. The show, complete with models, a runway and music, displayed sustainable fashion entries that included knitwear made with no waste, a dress made of vintage doilies and nonplastic vegan-leather bags. Marshall’s “living dress,” which she sewed herself, was decorated with dried flowers that she collected from momentous occasions, such as her parents’ wedding and her graduation. “It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for awhile and it’s so meaningful for me,” said Marshall, who won $1,000 in the contest. “The dress is completely biodegradable so I can bury it outside when we’re done.” The Eco-Chic Design Contest and Showcase was the final project of three students in the Sustainable Fashion Humanities Lab course this semester — Latrice Ciricillo and Mario Violi, both Italian studies majors, and Somaly Jaramillo Hurtado, a graduate student in sustainability.