Emily Katz’ recently launched eponymous line, as ultra wrote when she launched for Fall 07, finds its mark halfway between a more sophisticated feminine look and the t-shirts that launched [her other line] Bonnie Heart Clyde. Sure there’s jersey, fleece, and denim, but here they become a cowl neck tunic or an interesting keyhole wrap dress. And layered over them are super modern jackets, a short swing coat and the wonderfully detailed water-resistant WOW jacket with slightly puffed shoulders, a bow sash, and a dropped waist from which the rest of the 3/4 jacket falls from tiny pleats. As at other Portland-based labels focusing on sustainability, Nau and Anna Cohen, Katz is looking at new fabrics, some that stretch the imagination: water-resistant fleece? She’s using hemp/recycled poly denim, soy jersey, and organic cotton fleece.
Katz has said that she wanted to make a line that of pieces that she wanted to wear. Judging from her fall debut, we want to wear them all too (her style starts with a polished look and takes the edge off of it in that inimitably downtown girl kind of way), and are looking very much forward to her ideas for spring. See also this look inside Katz’ Portland studio in In Studio: Emily Katz by Pete Springer.
Emily Katz, Portland Fashion Week Night Three, Sunday October 21. Doors at 6, show around 8 PM. Tickets available at the Portland Fashion Week website and at the door.
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