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Urban Outfitters'"Bloody Kent State" Sweatshirt: Too Soon? Or Too Late?
Go wake up your grandparents and ask them if they remember the tragedy at Kent State. (I "remember" it because I was an extra in the Kent State TV movie! My big scene was peeking over the soldier as...
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The Shoe Everyone Will Be Wearing This Fall
If Marjorie Skinner liked wearing these shoes for her Worst Night Ever, she's gonna LOVE these new heels featured on the poster for American Horror Story: Freak Show (debuting on FX, Oct 8). Seriously...
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This Week's Style Events
This week in local businesses who care about how you look and smell, and want you to care back:•Adorn is just about to open a second location on SE Division, but first they’ve got something else to...
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Lookbook of the Day: Mag-Big's "The Greenroom Collection"
Mag-Big designer/founder Cassie Ridgway is always up to a million different things (including being an occasional Mercury contributor). So in addition to owning a boutique, producing fashion shows,...
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The Imperial Collection Officially Launches Today
The Imperial Collection by Anna Cohen represents a lot—for American manufacturing, sustainable apparel practices, and as an example of taking a new approach to bringing products to market rather than...
View ArticleLookbook of the Day: Cobra Cult's "Summer Don't Go"
Today feels like the first actual shift into fall weather (and right on time since it's the first official day of autumn), so it's doubly appropriate to feature the latest images from Cobra Cult, who...
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Lookbook of the Day: Cradle Jewelry
Today's lookbook pick comes from local jewelry line Cradle, designed by Sonia Marie Mitchell, formerly of New York, Berlin, and San Francisco. Of the works, Mitchell says, "I try to create what is...
View ArticleParsing the Portland Apparel Lab: Memberships
After the official launch/reveal of the Portland Apparel Lab, here's where I left off. After a brief respite from the brain-taxing effort of trying to take in the full scope of PAL, I've decided to...
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This Weekend's Style Events
Catch your breath before the First ________s of October hit, and dabble in some runway shows while you're at it. Meanwhile, on a shopping note:• N Williams recently became home to Workshop Vintage, a...
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Lookbook of the Day: Dawn Sharp's "Bebe Le Strange"
What ever happened to Dawn Sharp? The one-time mainstay of Portland's apparel scene, Sharp's flair for occult-ish styling and psychedelic velvets makes her one of my personally most-missed designers....
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Adam Arnold F/W '14: Frustration as Inspiration
I spent a good part of the late morning yesterday on the phone with Adam Arnold, talking about his upcoming F/W '14 show tomorrow at the Museum of Contemporary Craft. It comes on the heels of an...
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Tonight: Portland Fashion Week
It weirdly overlaps our mid-week issue dates, so was mentioned in the issue that's about to sail into the sunset, but Portland Fashion Week is taking over at "the tents" in Pioneer Square this evening....
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This Week's Style Events
It's the First of every day of the week, it's Design Week, PFW is still finishing up, and there's lots more on the way. Don't deny, stylish guys.•Palace is making big moves, pulling up shop from its...
View ArticleParsing the Portland Apparel Lab: Launch Strategy and Data
Ok! Diving back in to the meaty issues at hand regarding the proposed Portland Apparel Lab (PAL). We've looked at the memberships and costs, which have understandably been the focus of most prospective...
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know about Content 2014
The wildly popular Content at Ace Hotel (which I can talk up all I want to now that I'm not working on it!) is returning for its annual edition Saturday, Oct 18.For the uninitiated, the event selects...
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FashioNXT: Where China, Technology, and Project Runway Meet
FashioNXT is… well, next in the succession of busy fall runways. By far the most polished of the lot, this edition moves from its longtime home in the shipyards to the Pearl, a setting FashioNXT...
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Adam Arnold F/W '14 in Review
Last week's Adam Arnold presentation at the Museum of Contemporary Craft was about frustration and hope, transforming and maturing, lightness and darkness—he even invited audiences to write down...
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This Week's Style/Design Events
It's a bit fatter than the print:• In preparation for their impending to move across the river (to 511 SW Broadway), Stand Up Comedy is lightening the load, with an extra 20 percent off current sale...
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Camillia Heirloom + Modern
It can be tough to get attention in this city as an online-only retailer, given the plethora of excellent brick 'n' mortar shops that have opened in the last five years alone, much less a retailer who...
View ArticleFashioNXT: The Reviews Are Trickling In
A big event like FashioNXT that shoehorns in a ton of diverse apparel designers—and, increasingly, ones who really make you think—can be a lot to take in, but our reviews of last week's four-day series...
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