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Brady Lange S/S '14
February is shaping up to be an unusually busy time in Portland apparel design, with at least four fashion shows on the calendar (swing over to MOD for regular updates on these happenings). Meanwhile,...
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This Week's Style Events
Oh, it's the first sign of Spring: After the barren landscape of the January calendar and the citywide post-holiday retail purge, the fashion and retail event scene is starting to exhibit a pulse....
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Fashioning Cascadia
Back in the waning days of summer I met with Sarah Margolis-Pineo about an exhibition she was planning for the Museum of Contemporary Craft that dealt specifically with the production and design of...
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Fade to Light, Now with Final Details
Regardless of the fact that usually sleepy February is suddenly filled with local fashion shows (two in the coming week alone!), the winter edition of Fade to Light remains one of the most important...
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This Week's Style Events (with Addition)
Okay, regardless of the fact that my frigid wait at the bus stop this morning made me long for the warmth of a witch's tit, as far as Portland retail is concerned this winter shit is over. They have...
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Brady Lange... Tonight?
As I wrote in this week's Sold Out column, tonight is the scheduled presentation of Brady Lange's spring/summer collection at Black Book. But, considering the fact that Snowpocalypse is apparently just...
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Something Positive to Keep in Mind About the Sochi Olympics
There's plenty to legitimately gripe about concerning the Sochi winter Olympics, and griping we have done, and not without good reason. It's a shame that the negatives are threatening to overshadow...
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Dress Like Your Bike
You might remember Caitlin McCall's Quick Study line of bike clothing that doesn't look like bike clothing, featured in our last Bike Issue, as well as her Dress to Ride project, in which she and...
View ArticleTonight: Unmentionable
After way too many cancellations and reschedules, it's time to get back the hell on track with the program. For instance, tonight's Unmentionable lingerie show at the Doug Fir is 100% on schedule. It's...
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The Lille Swimwear Lookbook
All the smart types remembered to book themselves on a trip to someplace, anyplace warmer and drier for some part of the November-May span. This year I not only failed to do this but also made plans to...
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This Week's Style Events
The rescheduled events are coming in, and while your neighborhood bar might've hauled in a pretty penny over the snowpocalyptic weekend, local retail is hurting after having to shutter for those...
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Unmentionable in Review
It was a typically packed crowd at Tuesday night's Unmentionable lingerie expo, a combination of mostly locally made underthings—both everyday cottons and costumey one-of a kinds—along with former...
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Fashion Forward: Class of 2014
Portland Sewing has announced the seven designers set to be featured in this year's Fashion Forward show—all of whom are already working within the apparel industry and have produced new lines for the...
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I Have Had it With This Mother-effing Snake in This Mother-effing Sweater!!
I don't have a lot to say about this, other than "Hey, look. It's a snake wearing a sweater."Okay, fine... I'll think of something.1) Snakes are cold-blooded, therefore it doesn't need a sweater. BOOM....
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This Week's Style Events
The calendar of events and sales and whatnot on the city's constantly evolving style scene? Totally manageable this week:—A lot of people across the city were forced to declare a “do-over” thanks to...
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Tonight: Reif's Spring/Summer 2014 Debut
One of the brightest names in Portland-based apparel design, Lindsey Reif's Reif line of clothing has been gaining all kinds of speed in the past few years, and tonight marks her very first solo...
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Fade to Light Designer Preview: Poema
The semi-annual Fade to Light fashion show is going down at the Crystal this Wednesday (Feb 26), and we're studying up on the crop of designers being featured this time (some of them we know, some of...
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Win Tickets to Fade to Light!
This Wednesday marks the semi-annual winter edition of Fade to Light, one of the year's most consistently badass showcases of local apparel design. The brainchild of ubiquitous event hero (and Mercury...
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Reif S/S '14: The Photos
Friday night's presentation of Reif's spring/summer 2014 collection filled an unclaimed ground-floor suite of the NE Sandy Bindery development with atmospheric lighting, music, and racks of fresh...
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A New Date for the PDX Collective Sale
One of the many things the snowpocalypse ruined was the all-important PDX Collective Sale, wherein almost a dozen boutiques (including Tumbleweed, Mabel & Zora, Ecovibe, Parallel, and Radish...
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