I had planned to tell you that this is how we are going to get through one more grey day: marveling at directional knitwear by a Portland designer Jasmine Zamora, a student (!) at the Art Institute of Portland. I had planned to say that though the skies weigh heavily, there is the promise of cozying up in Zamora’s scultptural knitwear and killer wrap-y grey trousers
Review: Mercury Fashion Show
Themes of the night? Hotpants! Jumpsuits! Little dresses! We review the Mercury’s Sunday night dozen-designer fashion show
New Line: May Tee
One absolutely cannot go wrong looking to Isamu Noguchi for inspiration as far as we’re concerned…
Just Can’t Get Enough: Adam Arnold Spring 08
More images from Adam Arnold’s Spring 08 show at Design Within Reach.
Church & State In Now At Seaplane
The new spring Church & State is in-store at Seaplane (827 NW 23rd) but the pieces won’t last long on the rails. Seaplane has very few of the styles they’re stocking.
Debrief: Adam Arnold Spring 2008
review of Adam Arnold’s Spring 08 fashion show at Design Within Reach: …love the new “presentation” model that Arnold has embraced. It’s just right for Portland. A little bit fashion show, and a little bit show n’ tell, his models, both professional and charmingly un- stood by as Arnold chatted informally with the audience about garment and more…
Live! church & state
church & state’s website is now live (what are you waiting for? stop reading and click!) with gorgeous photos of their Spring 08 collection entitled “just for decoration” modeled by the Chromatics’ extraordinary songstress, Ruth Radelet.
Nothing Minor
Portland-based Minor Poet is design duo KerryAnn Kimbrell and John Kwon. Kimbrell we had met as an Art Institute senior (mistaking her for her sister, a dancer, oops) with an impeccable little women’s collection she then showed at the Mercury fashion show last year. But Minor Poet is, for now, for men only.
