Justice is served. All is right with the faux world that is reality television’s version of reality, which is to say one that is in quotation marks.
Last night, Portland’s Leanne Marshall won the fifth season of the Bravo television show, Project Runway, in which fashion designers compete in frequently absurd weekly challenges meant to separate […]
Congratulations Leanne Marshall
Joshua Buck at Portland Fashion Week
design: Joshua Buck. photo: Josh Elliott
Thought that Joshua Buck’s work deserved a few more photos (thank you Josh Elliott) from the runway at Portland Fashion Week. This Art Institute of Portland senior has not only has the courage of vision, but is making meticulously constructed work.
I wrote a review of the work here.
design: Joshua Buck. […]
Run Away Fashion Show Photos
photo: Josh Elliott
Friday night was the Runaway fashion/music/art show at the Someday Lounge and what a show it was.
But what about the clothes? There were dozens of fresh looks for spring from a handful of Portland designers—Gretchen Jones of Moth Love, Emily Katz, Emily Baker of sword + fern, Dust by Julia Blackburn, and Reif […]
Handicapping Project Runway
second to last post ever (probably) on the “reality” show featuring Portland-based designer Leanne Marshall of Leanimal
Simply
“So when I write my idea of what success is… (it is) if it’s caused a shift in ideas.” from Garth Clark interview in PORT.
Just the other side of a fashion week, having just written about a couple of craft exhibitions while thinking about a contemporary furniture show and a now-closed visual […]
Manuf®actured Delivers In More Ways Than One
As the Museum of Contemporary Craft moved from its Lair Hill location to its new Baja Pearl location, it was going through more than a physical move. The institution went through an intense self-examination resulting in a redefinition of itself and its mission. Most critically (in all senses of the word) the word “craft” was […]
The Closer: Portland Fashion Week’s Final Night
Portland Fashion Week at 14 Square (1330 NW 14th) draws to a close with a strong womenswear night including Modi Sondarotok’s IDOM, preview photos of which look contemporary and crisp and Alice Dobson’s Sofada (above).
Amai Unmei
Strung Out by Peniche (LA)
Salvationware (winner of Seamless in Seattle award)
Idom
sofada by alice dobson
Elroy Apparel (Vancouver, BC)
Tonight: Run Away
Tonight, Friday October 10 at 10 PM, it’s Run Away, the fashion/music/film show at the Someday Lounge (125 NW 5th) that Portland-based fashion designer Gretchen Jones (Moth Love) is producing with musc from Caves and Cancer Rising; designers including, Jones, Emily Katz, Emily Baker of sword + fern, Dust by Julia Blackburn, and Reif by […]
