Designer, modeling agent (Q6), event producer Jonny Shultz responds to the ultra Q in which we ask Portland’s movers and makers a number of pressing questions…
An award-winning designer of women’s accessories, Jonny Shultz has recently moved into designing women’s ready-to-wear. His full women’s collection debuts at STRUT on June 7. Shultz recently took time out to answer the ultra Q.
Qualities you most admire in design:
Simple elegance
Qualities you most despise in design:
Over stylized, too much
Reading:
Confederacy of Dunces
Listening to:
Okerville River, Feist, Hot Chip, Kings of Convenience
Dream project:
To work and run a small, independent design house
Favorite virtue:
Integrity
Favorite vice:
Vodka soda and lime
Tragic flaw:
I share my honest opinion, when asked
Secret superhero power:
I can take a hot polariod of anyone!
That which keeps your afterburners firing:
fashion, and photos
What you’d like to be when you grow up:
Do it now, why wait?
Portland’s best kept secret:
l’astra, Burnside Proper, Yes
Portland heroes (sung or un-):
Byron Beck, Jeana Frazzini of B.R.O. and her partner K.D. Parman, Alicia Carr
Interesting on the horizon (PDX):
STRUT, and the Little White Dress Show!
WHAT TO DO NOW?