design: Kathryn Towers (left), Holly Stalder (right). photo: Pete Springer
Wednesday’s show of work by Seaplane proprietresses Kathryn Towers and Holly Stalder was part Alice in Wonderland, part Edward Gorey (one model in a black silk taffeta dress carried a crow). In a reenactment of Gorey’s Gothic Alphabet, “I is for Ida who drowned in […]
Debrief: Stalder and Towers
Debrief: Adam Arnold Fall 06
design: Adam Arnold. photo: Pete Springer.
Incroyable. Adam Arnold, Fall 2006
It is only fitting that Adam Arnold kick off the first of Portland’s two fashion weeks, as he is, and continues to be, the gold standard to which other designers in Portland’s scene or industry are compared. His is the only full-scale atelier in Portland, […]
Debrief (of sorts): Walk of the Dolls
Madeline Williams-Brownlee of House of Dolls
Reporting from the front…the quirky storefront at NW 19th and Pettygrove…there was a crude runway taped out on the sidewalk but no spectators (were you there? we didn’t see you). We entered the House of Dolls to see Blythe dolls, fringed lamps, shelves chock full of curiosities, racks of vintage […]
Debrief: DYODP
Last night’s party for the designers of The Collections and the people who love them featured a photobooth stocked with local duds, a raffle of hats, tops, and dresses, and music from DJ 1996 Olympics, DJ Sew What, and the designers themselves.
Most impressive/ masochistic, however, was the couture-on-demand […]
Debrief: Fashion Camp Fashion Show
By all accounts, the fashion show celebrating the end of the inaugural Fashion Design Camp was a smash. Over a hundred parents and friends showed up last night at the future home of Tacee Webb’s (founder of Red Light Clothing Exchange) new retail space, Brother Sister (919 NW 23rd) to watch the thirteen girls aged […]
Debrief: Locally Grown
Locally Grown at City Hall. photo: Pete Springer
There are actually several stories at work in the Locally Grown fashion show that took place yesterday at City Hall. The first is that of city recognition that apparel and accessories design is an important and growing market segment in Portland, worthy of city attention.
Mayor Tom Potter sat […]
Debrief: Fall for Fashion
photo:Pete Springer
Charity and fashion have always been a winning mélange. Everything from the annual Fire and Ice ball to Naomi Campbell’s notorious campaign for “I’d rather go naked than wear fur.”
Last Thursday evening, a young lady-about-town named Elizabeth Braun, who acted as model and breathy emcee, produced the benefit Fall for Fashion with proceeds going […]
Debrief: 4
photo: Gordon Wilson
You know the one about the blind men and the elephant? It’s not a joke, but a Bhuddist parable concerning our multifaceted, highly individual perception of reality. (Depending on which part of the elephant each blind man touched, he compared it to a different object: plough, pestle, brush, &c.)
photo: Gordon Wilson
This could also […]
