ultra how did you name yourself?
It was so long ago. Let us celebrate the anniversary of ultra’s birth (three years ago, plus a month) with a link to this little note on the ultraists (and yes, we’re linking to Wikipedia…honestly it’s a more fleshed out entry than the Encyclopedia Brittanica), a Spanish literary movement with […]
ultraism
“Fashion Writer. No Experience Necessary”
And Cathy Horyn’s mother said, “You? A fashion writer?” But Cathy Horyn took the position (with a closet full of Laura Ashley dresses) at a Detroit daily in 1986 because two weeks in New York each year to cover the collections sounded good to her. Today Horyn, the New York Times fashion critic, visited Portland […]
Debrief: Show2006
design: Thunderbolt. photo: Sarah Henderson
Don’t miss show2006, currently on view at PNCA. It’s a great survey of some of the high-powered furniture and object design talent working in Portland today. This showcase of “innovative and functional furniture design” by Portland-based designers opened with a standing-room-only reception at the Pearl District showroom of Design Within […]
Debrief: Trans-fix-ed
It’s come up more than once in conversation and in writing these past few days, the speed and manner of the models and its impact on our ability to consider the clothes they are showing. Will she speed, frolic or glide? Will he stop long enough for the photographer to succeed in shooting his ensemble?
The […]
