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West End Weekend
With or without your approval, they are going with the whole "West End" re-brand of that 10th Ave-centric stretch of downtown, and thus this weekend's events are dubbed the "West End Weekend." If...
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Open Season: The Photo Spread
If you haven't already seen it, check out this week's pretty picture-filled feature on the designers of next week's Open Season series of fashion shows, shot by local badass Ray Gordon. And! Don't...
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Win! Two Four-Night Passes to the Open Season Fashion Shows!
On Monday, the first in a four-evening series of Open Season fashion shows featuring some of the greatest designers in the city will kick off (I know, weekdays, but they're early shows, with doors at...
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Open Season: After the Fashion
Next week's series of Open Season fashion shows feature some of the most important and exciting apparel designers working and producing in the city. However! It's also taking place at what are probably...
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Open Season Kicks off Tonight with Holly Stalder, Emily Ryan, Liza Rietz, and...
Open Season, the four-evening series of fashion shows featuring some of the most exciting design talent in town, kicks off tonight with three of the city's heavy hitters: Holly Stalder, Emily Ryan, and...
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Open Season, Day Two: Reif and Brady Lange
Last night's kick-off of the Open Season series of fashion shows was epic—check out Marissa's recap. But pick yourself back up, because we are just getting started! This evening at Produce Row (21+,...
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Open Season, Day Three: Pendleton's The Portland Collection
We've had two successful nights of Open Season fashion shows, so why stop now? Nope, not gonna! Tonight features some of the city's heaviest hitters in Pendleton's The Portland Collection, designed by...
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Open Season Finale!: Immaculate Martin and the Chamber of Secrets
Yes, I just combined a fashion show with a Harry Potter reference. This is how you know I am tired.But fuck tired! Tonight we're capping of Open Season's successful run of happy hour fashion shows with...
View ArticleOdessa S/S '13
It tends to keep a low profile, but never forget: Odessa is—and has been for longer than most—one of the most sophisticated boutiques in the city. They recently put together a lookbook for the spring...
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RE: Open Season. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You
Those of us who took the whole ride through this year's four-night series of Open Season fashion shows are probably still convalescing—I know I am, and so is Marissa Sullivan, whose last recap of each...
View ArticleAudreality Does Open Season: "Fashion Passion"
The big bummer about working on Open Season shows is how jealous I am of everyone who can simply enjoy them without having to deal with language-garbling headsets and endless rolls of utility tape....
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Union Way
I was a little bummed when Red Cap—the queer bar across the street from the Ace/Clyde Common—went out of business, and I didn't blink an eye when Aura slipped permanently into my well of...
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The Portland Fashion & Style Awards 2.0
The past year in the local fashion event industry has been playing out like a game of musical chairs, and not to be left out, the Portland Fashion & Style Awards—which I criticized at length for...
View ArticleThe Cascadia Sustainable Apparel Initiative
It's just an idea at this point, really, but Crispin Argento (designer of PINO and networker/idea man/talker/doer extraordinaire) just might be on to something. Long an advocate and agitator for...
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TV Conspiracy Theories: Is Megan Draper Destined to Meet the Fate of Sharon...
If you're a Mad Men fan and you're not reading Tom and Lorenzo's Mad Men fashion recaps—YOU SHOULD. They are insanely smart breakdowns of each episode, told from the point of view of each character's...
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Alley 33
It's okay to start talking about August already, right? Because, as the indisputably most perfect Portland month of the year, there is always an ass ton of ridiculous fun things to do, and only so much...
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Summer's Toughest Question: Male Footwear
Oh man, you guys: summer is totally basically here now and the barbecues are on, so we're facing the same problem we have every year: What the hell are men supposed to be doing with their shoes?? It...
View ArticleYo Vintage x Wildfang = Tomboy Camp Vibes
Two titans of local fashion, Yo Vintage! and the newishly launched Wildfang have joined forces to kick off the summer with a collaborative pop-up shop debuting this first Thursday June 6 (the party...
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Portland Fashion Week Reveals a Glimpse of Its Design Talent
Portland Fashion Week (not this one, the other one) has been pretty quiet about who is actually going to be on its runway—we've known they are running an emerging designer contest, and that they are...
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These Boots
Depending on your employment and hobbies, this information is either useful to you from a fashion perspective, a practical perspective, or an athletic one (or both), but let it be known that one of the...
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