design Garnish. photo Pete Springer
The theme of the final night at Portland Fashion Week seemed to be one of simple wearability: virtually every look shown, the exception being some of the more daring garments from Souchi, seemed ready to come off the runway and into Portlanders’ closets tout de suite.
design Habitude. photo Pete Springer
design Habitude. […]
IDOM. photo: Minh Tran
Portland Fashion Week Day Three was a bit of a jumble: when the only common thread is “sustainability” (more on that later) it can be a little hard to parse five designers’ collections for themes. Nevertheless Michelle DeCourcy, Leanimal, Idom, EmilyKatz, and Stewart+Brown did have a few things in common; this season […]
design: Anna Cohen, Portland. photo: Pete Springer
Portland has a long history of taking things from other cities. Be it a name (that place in Maine), a form of government (Galveston, TX and Des Moines, IA) or a Michael Graves building (every other municipality duped by that purveyor of kitchenware), Portland wants in on what everyone […]
design: KitKit Dodge
Portland loves its locally grown fashion. Most all of our fêted designers are either native or started their lines in our unique creative-class incubator. So what happens, then, when you throw a transplant into the mix? Willow O’Brien is a Portland native, but made her bones (and KitKit Dodge, her line of repurposed […]
Cathy Horyn of The New York Times, Manolo Blahnik, and Style.com’s Candy Pratts Price. Photo: Sherly Rabbani and Josephine Solimene. via style.com
Quick note to say that NY Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn, according to her blog “on the runway,” is coming to Portland later in April to “talk to students at Lewis and Clark.” Smart […]
Adam Arnold Spring 07. photo: Pete Springer
The model call for people with shaved heads or who would be willing to shave their head should have been a hint to the uninitiated. Adam Arnold has a vision.
Adam Arnold enjoys throwing audiences for a loop, and his most recent show was no different, […]
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