Two Faced
On any given week there are at least a handful of enjoyable fashion/retail happenings in this city for women. Even though the options for men's clothing have improved dramatically, they just don't get...
View ArticleThe 2013 Edition of Open Season: The Mercury's Ninth Annual Fashion Show!
Those of you who attended last year's Open Season—an annual showcase that we've been doing to showcase Portland design talent since forever—will recall how the designers practically blew the doors off...
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Project Runway Wrap Up!
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Bridge & Burn (Finally) Set to Open in Downtwon This Week
After months—months!—of teasing, that charmed swath of SW Portland that even people who call it by its new name usually use air quotes, the West End, has gotten another get. Bridge & Burn is...
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Project Runway Wrap Up!
Oooh ooh ooh, last night's two-hour Project Runway special, featuring the final challenge prior to sending these poor exhausted people home to work on their NY fashion week collections, had a whole lot...
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Where in the World Is Julia Barbee?
If you swung by the 811 E Burnside hub over the weekend, you may have noticed something different. Multidisciplinary designer/artist/perfumer/performer Julia Barbee's tiny studio/shop had its last day...
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Project Runway Wrap Up!
I feel like this always happens. Whenever the finalists on Project Runway are released from their gilded cage to go home and begin work on their fashion week collections, it's like the blood suddenly...
View ArticleAdvance Passes Now Available for Open Season!
Hey, what's this? It's the brand new web site for the 2013 edition of Open Season, a four night series of fashion shows featuring local greats like Holly Stalder, Emily Ryan, Liza Rietz, Reif, Brady...
View ArticleDispatch from Vancouver BC's Eco Fashion Week
Greetings from lovely Vancouver, British Columbia! I'm here for the city's Eco Fashion Week, founded six seasons ago by Myriam Laroche with the goal of "informing and inspiring the fashion-conscious,...
View ArticleGet Advance Tix to the Open Season Fashion Show—NOW!
The Mercury's annual fashion show Open Season is the style event of the year, and always super packed! And this year we're switching things up to create something of a mini-fashion week with four...
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Claire La Faye
In this week's Sold Out, I finally got to profile one of the Portland designers who originally got me interested in the independent apparel design scene here: Claire La Faye. Prominent at Seaplane and...
View ArticleOpen Season: Now with Video!
The Mercury ninth annual Open Season showcase of Portland fashion is coming up next month, a four-night series of intimate shows featuring local badasses like Holly Stalder, Emily Ryan, Liza Rietz,...
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Project Runway Wrap Up!
And then it was over:Let's recap this shiz over on MOD.[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Portland Fashion Week Announces New Convention Center Digs
The newPortland Fashion Week—not the one that former producer Tito Chowdhury built up before starting his own FASHIONxt alternative event, but a new beast being helmed by original founder Tod Foulk and...
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Sword + Fern Is Back: New Curtains, News, and Projects
So maybe my excitement led me to get a little out of hand with the subject tags of this post, but that's only because Sword + Fern—the gem of a shop helmed by Emily Baker, who makes jewelry but also...
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Open Season Addition: Pendleton's The Portland Collection to Be Soundtracked...
It ain't easy to make this year's four-day series of Open Season fashion shows even more exciting than their all-star lineup already is, but Pendleton's The Portland Collection has scored a nice little...
View ArticleSingle-Night Open Season Tickets Now Available!
Can't make every night of this year's Open Season series of fashion shows? Tickets for individual nights just went on sale. Pick and choose, choosy! [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleMeet Michelle
As you may have heard, Portland continued its uncanny televised streak a couple weeks ago by having yet another apparel design representative win Project Runway, which—while there's no getting around...
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Coco Cardenas to Join Reif at Open Season
Monday kicks off four days of fashion shows at the series that is the new incarnation of the Mercury's Open Season. We have some of the city's top design talent participating, including Tuesday night's...
View ArticlePortland Sewing's Fashion Forward
While I've had my head wrapped up in Open Season, Mercury's four-night series of fashion shows happening next week, there's another show that should be on the radar of those with vested (pun!) interest...
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