After Portland Fashion Week last fall, many have wondered, What’s next? Portland Fashion Week roars back this spring not with runway shows, but with a couple of events previewing Fall/Winter 2008 collections by a number of local and sustainable designers and a showroom at the Better Living Show. First up, on March 27 at the […]
Portland Fashion Week Spring
first word that Portland Fashion Week is doing a spring event in March as part of the Better Living Show
Anna Cohen Sample Sale
For those new to the work of lauded Portland-based fashion designer Anna Cohen, you should know that Cohen, who spent formative time working in Italian fashion houses, does a sustainable line of high-fashion daywear of organic cottons, hemp-silk, and was an early adopter of bamboo jersey. It’s crisp, sophisticated, tailored separates and drapey tops and […]
Not To Be Missed: Entermodal Sample Sale
This is stealth luxury. This is knowing luxury. Instead of bells, whistles, and shiny things, there is quality and an integrity from the best Italian vegetable tanned leathers to ancient leatherworking techniques. Like only a very few European ateliers, Entermodal makes one bag from one hide. There is no assembly line. Each bag is handcut and sewn by one person. Every Entermodal wallet is completely handstitched. Every bag takes at least 10 hours to create and each of the bags in the Creative collection requires more than an entire workday of handstitching.
Anna Cohen Sample Sale
a look from the runway for Cohen’s Spring 08 show. photo: Pete Springer
O the lucky among you who are sample size. Anna Cohen, the Portland-based sustainable designer whose eponymous line is equal parts slim cut tailoring (little jackets and trousers) and lovely drape (bamboo jersey is a signature fabric) is having a studio sample sale […]
Debrief: Junk to Funk
photo: Jaycob Desrosiers
The vogue word for Portland fashion in 2007 is sustainability. We have witnessed an exponential growth spurt of eco-friendly and “green” fashions. Green may just well be the new black. Portland is the top ranking recycling city in America and with a statistic like that to its moniker it continues to live up […]
I Want To Take You Higher
When you say “funk,” we say Sly, George, or Mr. Brown, or the artist once and always known as.
The word comes up in the rhymily named Junk to Funk Recycled Fashion Show Contest happening this weekend. Here we’ll put the “funk” in quotation marks and the word “fashion” as well. In actuality, Junk to Funk […]
