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Tie-Dye, Hair, and Leather: What the ZZ Top Concert Looked Like
Wednesday night at Edgefield, a multi-generational crowd of fans guzzled beer to the sounds of a flawless ZZ Top concert—props to them for developing personas that keep them looking like the coolest...
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Disremembered
Jen LaMastra is really into garbage. Like, really into garbage. She is Portland's poster child for the eco-fashion habit of up-scaling discarded objects like soda can tabs, smashed mirrors, and...
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The Impending Pearl District Explosion
Oh sheesh, relax, I don't mean an actual fire-and-carnage explosion (sorry if that disappoints some of you). No, but this weekend is the Pearl District's annual hoo-ha, otherwise knows as the...
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Seattle's not so far away, really, and the train is quite pleasant. They even have wifi! Aside from bitchin' Chinese food and better museums, another reason to go: Two of Portland's favorite...
View ArticleLast Chance for Tickets to Elizabeth Cline
In this week's paper, I interviewed Elizabeth Cline, the author of Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, a heavily researched look into the environmental, ethical, economic, and...
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Demimonde Set to Fly Solo
You win some and you lose some in the world of come and go retail, but today we win: Demimonde Jewelry has been housed as part of the Haunt collective at 811 E Burnside as of late, but perhaps as soon...
View ArticlePortland Fashion Week Becomes "FASHIONxt"
Strange things are afoot over at Portland Fashion Week HQ. I've been hearing mutterings for a while now about a potential name change and re-brand of the days-long series of sustainably focused...
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Hits of Sunshine: Portland Artists in the Desert
Heather Treadway and Lisa Schonberg—who you know from Treadway's eponymous clothing line, their former band Explode Into Colors, their current band Secret Drum Machine, and the pages of Tom Tom...
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The Duchess Fall Look
Yesterday evening I had the privilege of attending a little soiree at Duchess, where they previewed their men's suiting looks for Fall. It's a bit of experiment for them. Historically they've stuck to...
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Back to School Clothing Round-Up!
Tonight is Fashion's Night Out, an international retail event invented by Anna Wintour during the depths of the recession. In Portland the festivities are concentrated on the west side, and virtually...
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Pendleton Portland Collection Madness Resumes
Surely you recall the furor in 2011 with which the first season of the Pendleton Portland Collection was greeted, kicking off a great many debates centered around the use of traditional Native...
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The Duchess Fall Lookbook
As promised, official lookbook photos of Duchess' new dabble in off-the-rack menswear, and its first seasonally inspired collection for Fall/Winter '12 have been posted. Shot by Studio Sundell, and...
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The New Louie's is Now Operational
As mentioned, and as you've surely discovered if you ambled down SE Hawthorne sometime this summer in search of some heat-quenching Cold Stone Creamery, Imelda's and Louie's has turned its former...
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Hot Or Not: Google Glass at New York Fashion Week
Back in April when we polled you on Google's "Project Glass"—which emerged as Google Glass, a hands-free alternative to smart phones—only 13.61% of you answered "I want those glasses so fucking hard...
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Portland Garment Factory at The Curiosity Club
Last week's Elizabeth Cline presentation really drove home the fact that, regardless of how repetitive I sometimes feel having been talking about it on the pages of the Mercury for so many years,...
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EQUINOX
It's too early for the crush of group sales held by local designers/crafters/vendors that accompanies the months leading up to the holidays, but that's cool; it means you can shop for yourself with...
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The Triumphant Return of The PDX Collective Sale
Ignoring the fact that it's allegedly going to get up to 90 today (suh-weet!), the seasons are changing and soon enough you'll have to put some clothes on. But before you go charging your broke ass...
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Tonight at Disjecta: GLEAN
There are so many cultural experiences to be had this weekend, it's downright overwhelming to choose, but Disjecta's opening reception for GLEAN tonight from 6-9 pm is making my cut. A collaboration...
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Of Gadgetry and Former Reality TV Stars: More on 2012's Portland Fashion Week...
So Portland Fashion Week, if the website that hasn't been updated in a year didn't tip you off, has been abandoned. Instead, Executive Producer Tito Chowdhury has started FASHIONxt, which sounds like...
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The American Made Awards
Martha Stewart has been the butt of many a joke, and I'm not even talking about her brush with white collar crime. Say what you will about boner-killing homemade Christmas decorations, but the woman...
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