Upon further review

I'm pretty sure this dress is the product of an Experimental Design course at any of our fine Midwestern land grant universities' Domestic Arts Home Economics Consumer Sciences Human Ecology program.

It's got that "recycled products from flyover country" vibe. Possibly melted grocery bags without printing.

None of the captions on Yahoo News seem to mention the designer (who can blame them for wanting to remain anonymous?) but about half of them have "George Bush was a poopy-head" tacked on to the end.