design: Thunderbolt. photo: Sarah Henderson
Don’t miss show2006, currently on view at PNCA. It’s a great survey of some of the high-powered furniture and object design talent working in Portland today. This showcase of “innovative and functional furniture design” by Portland-based designers opened with a standing-room-only reception at the Pearl District showroom of Design Within […]
Debrief: Show2006
Debrief: Linea
design: Linea. photo: Pete Springer.
Seaplane was emptied of racks and crowded to the gills as is usual for a fashion event here, but this time there was or wasn’t a runway. We’d been told to expect an “installation” and reception for Jess Beebe’s line Linea. We were greeted by a white Vespa in the middle […]
Debrief: Runway to Rooftop
design: Tibi. photo: Pete Springer.
The time is out of joint. As the internet has increased coverage of fashion shows (Style.com, New York Magazine, etc.) what we used to see in the pages of the fat fall glossies as the garments hit the stores, we now see on the runway well before we can touch […]
Debrief: Cloak
In a late entry to our coverage of The Collections series of fashion shows, witness “Cloak” by Genevieve Dellinger and Hazel Cox of Denwave (811 E Burnside). In their first year showing with The Collections designers, Dellinger and Cox eschewed runway and even showing their work (Dellinger’s apparel and Cox’ jewelry) in favor of creating […]
Debrief: Macy’s Fashion Show at the Portland Art Museum
photo: Pete Springer
The clothes were only half the story at last night’s fashion show at the Portland Art Museum to formally announce Macy’s arrival in Portland. Meier & Frank no longer has what you want. But Macy’s is betting that it does. Which is why the pagentry, and there was a lot of it, […]
Debrief: KOiPOD
photo: Pete Springer.When I received the email “will you go to the Belmont Street Fair for a fashion show?” I speedily ran through my mind to find excuses.
Nonetheless, I prepared for the battle on Belmont. I laced up my black Coach combat boots, donned my aviators, slipped into my Marc Jacobs combat pants and my […]
Debrief: Church + State
design: Church + State. photo: Pete Springer
Evolve. After having moved through various styles of painting, Barnett Newman found his mature style with the painting of “Onement” when he was 43. From then on, every Newman painting is unmistakably Newman, most with his trademark “zip.”
Barnett Newman. Onement I. 1948. Museum of Modern Art
We watched […]
Debrief: Elizabeth Dye
design: Elizabeth Dye. photo: Pete Springer
Elizabeth Dye takes her store’s moniker (The English Department) seriously. Seriously enough that each program came wrapped around one of Charles Dickens’ books, and audience members were greeted upon entering with a sumptuous table of cake and plums. The influence did not stop there, as models in outfits named after […]
