NaturevsFuture. photo: Minh Tran
If any of us had any doubts about the location for Portland Fashion Week (like where it was, for example, especially when we made wrong turn and ended up at the Overlook thinking, we’re supposed to be down there somewhere, but how do we get there?), they were erased just past the […]
Debrief: Portland Fashion Week Night One…The Dress
Scene and Seen: Portland Fashion Week Night One
photo: Minh Tran
Were you not among the standing room only crowd at Portland Fashion Week last night? No problem, our photographer, Minh Tran can make you feel as if you were.
photo: Minh Tran
Debrief: Adam Arnold Fall 07…Dymaxion!*
Bucky skirt. design: Adam Arnold. photo: Christy Klep.
There was a lot more than fall clothing on show last night at Adam Arnold’s Eastside atelier: blend of precision and freedom of thought and action that utopian inventor Buckminster Fuller, whose work Arnold has cited as an influence, would have appreciated. Because that is the very brilliant […]
Debrief: Bella…Mario’s Fall Fashion Show
photos from the Mario’s Fall Fashion Show for Portland Art Museum. photo: Pete Springer
Pictures. A thousand words. Their worth. Last night. Portland Art Museum Ballroom. Mario’s Fall Fashion Show. The better you dresses just…like…this.
photos from the Mario’s Fall Fashion Show for Portland Art Museum. photo: Pete Springer
photos from the Mario’s Fall Fashion Show for Portland […]
Debrief: EcoStyle Fashion Show
photo: Jaycob DesRosiers
Usually when you encounter an environmental awareness non-profit organization, you don’t think fashion other than chinos, polar fleece and Teva sandals. The EcoStyle fashion show on Sunday night, produced by Ziva Salon—Lindsay Garcia and Heidi Parfitt were the women behind the production—benefited the environmental non-profit Ecotrust. The show was held […]
Debrief: PDX Collective Sale
photo: Alex Knighton
Apotheke bustled like a small European marketplace on Saturday, where nine local Portland boutiques held a collective sale event. The small, shared space was energized by jazzy Bjork and the chatter of salesgirls. Narrow paths between racks were crowded with eager shoppers bumping elbows as they hunted for deals on summer leftovers. […]
Debrief: Bishops Grand Opening
I almost crashed my car driving down NW Glisan last Thursday evening when I spotted a congregation of white clad people; the group included a fallen angel complete with wings, a girl in Day Glo pink hair, and men in suits with white on white ties. The snow-inspired flurry was the launch party for Bishops […]
Debrief: Flourish Fashion Show
Flourish fashion show. photo: Pete Springer
It wasn’t a dark and stormy night, but it is getting dark earlier and it did drizzle on the Flourish fashion show last night at the corners of N Beech and N Mississippi. We’d feared earlier in the week that we’d be standing on a baking hot parking lot watching […]