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. […]
design Lara Miller at Portland Fashion Week photo Pete Springer
It’s been so interesting every night to see the different audiences that show up for each night at Portland Fashion Week. Last night, from our vantage point, we saw a polished, well-heeled crowd whose evening looks may or may not have dovetailed with the aesthetic of […]
design Emily Ryan. photo Pete Springer
Well, the dog ate our homework and the computer ate half of our Collections review. Day late and a dollar short or better late than never. As Mr. James Brown has said, “Give it to me one time. Give it to me two times.” If it’s Tuesday, it must […]
This is Part One of a two-part tag team review.
The Collections had their own week last year, apart from Portland Fashion Week. While there was the temptation to see it as a Jets and Sharks thing, the reality is more apples and oranges. A group of designers who have been working with and […]
International Klein Blue (#002FA7) of Leanimal’s oft used chiffon.
Fog rolling in—movement, liquidity, form—Leanimal’s brilliant cloudlike rolled collar and Michelle DeCourcy’s floaty grey chiffon dress.
Black hole black of IDOM’s trapeze with the silver half-moon collar.
Sunday night was the first night we heard catcalls directed at the models which is interesting because the night overall was […]
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: Sameunderneath. photo: Minh Tran
design: alula. photo: Minh Tran
Duchess suit. photo: Minh Tran
design: Lizzie Parker. photo: Minh Tran
design: Lizzie Parker. photo: Minh Tran
design: Lizzie Parker. photo: Minh Tran
The first look out of the gate on night two of Portland Fashion Week was sensational, a difficult to describe and impossible to forget cross between a batwing […]
mewv. photo: Minh Tran
NaturevsFuture. photo: Jaycob Desrosiers
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