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Fashion & Retail News Roundup!: Yo Vintage! Kat Seale! Red Wing!
• Yo Vintage! gave up its brick 'n' mortar home long ago, but they've been taking up occasional residence at like-minded shops where their meticulously selected vintage pieces complement the newly made...
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Magpie's Move, A Perfect Pink Chair, and Tanner's New Hi-Tops: Your Daily...
• Longtime fixture among Portland's downtown vintage hoards, Magpie has closed up its longtime home on SW 9th and Alder… but not to worry: You can find them now at 1960 SE Hawthorne, so all is not...
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The Weekend Shopper: An Intensely Busy Weekend with Content, Lena Medoyeff,...
FRIDAY•Animal Traffic is celebrating Friday the 13th with a sale online and in both their N Mississippi and downtown stores (including the Annex shoe store)... that'd be 13 percent off, naturally....
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This Week's Style Events: John Blasioli, West End Select, Frances May & More
• Innovative outdoor company Nau—a pioneer of conscientious apparel production—re-establishing its brick and mortar presence in the city it calls home. At their side is Stay Wild (the adventure...
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PFSA Winners, Kiriko's Foray into Ceramics, & Treefort: Your Portland Fashion...
• Sunday night's Portland Fashion and Style Awards were a hoot (thanks largely to snarky co-host Poison Waters), despite the attrition (it was pretty obvious people were leaving as soon as the winners...
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Photos from Content 2015
Over the weekend, the sixth edition of Content at the Ace Hotel sold out once again, crowding an entire floor of the hotel with fans of art and commerce alike. It can get crowded in those halls as...
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The Weekend Shopper: Dehen's Factory Sale! Frances May's Warehouse Sale!...
Shoppers! Please update this week's earlier worksheet:•Dehen is having one of their killer (and rather rare) factory sales, with up to 90 percent off on their American-made classic knits. Dehen, 1040...
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This Week's Style Events: A Kinder Black Friday Week/End
You could die if you go to a chain store this week, so I caution you to avoid such dens of impropriety. Here's what we've got cooking so far on the independent tip, and don't act surprised if I come...
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Yo!'s Holiday Lookbook, a West Daily Tribute, and a Shopping Strategy: Your...
•Yo Vintage! has always excelled at collecting the best in sparkly, spangly dresses for the holiday party season. Their newest lookbook is all about it: • To commemorate his newly acquired designation...
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A Cheat Sheet to the Month of Holiday Sales Ahead
Ordinarily I dole out guides to weekly sales and other stylish happenings in weekly doses (like this essential organizational primer to the week of Black Thursday, which doesn't have to be gross...
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A New Home for Nau
Do you remember Nau? Do you remember when it first emerged in Portland? It's easy to forget, but back in 2007, Nau's central premise was making clothing that was made to perform in an outdoor...
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The Holiday Floodgates Are Now Open: This Week's Style Events!
In the issue of the Merc that will be hitting streets tomorrow, I put together a handy roundup of all the small-business vendors' pop-ups and holiday bazaars I could find. You're welcome! It did take...
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The English Dept. Moves, Residents Photos, and Mink's Flash Sale: Your Daily...
• You may remember a while back when founder and designer Elizabeth Dye sold The English Dept. to Xtabay's Liz Gross. Now it's been announced that TED is moving/consolidating across the river to the...
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There are a lot of good ones, so it's a challenge to stand out among the December pop-up crowd, but the Makery's Fourth Annual Winter Pop-Up truly does:The Makery's fourth annual winter pop-up is...
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Prairie Underground Sample Sale, Designer Roach Clips, and the Retail Crush...
TUESDAY, DEC 8• One of MercyCorps' many causes is the development and support of small business, so it's only natural they should host their own holiday showcase, featuring 30 of their...
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Alaska Airlines x Looptworks, Haunt's New Move, & Frances May's Rainy Day...
• Two of the area's more progressive companies, Alaska Airlines and Looptworks, have come together to collaborate yet again: Alaska needed to replace some old leather seats, so Looptworks stepped in to...
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Holiday Party Fashion Tips from Portland's Experts!
It's really difficult not to get stressed out this time of year. There's even more pressure than usual to spend money, while your utility bills are at their highest point. Consider what we in the...
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Strange Vacation, Sale Supplements, and Non-Dorky Rain Gear: Your Daily Dose...
• Supplementary note to the calendar of shoppy events going off this weekend: The 811 E Burnside anti-mini mall complex is holding a holiday open house at shops like xobruno and Haunt this evening from...
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The Best and Worst of 2015 Style with Photographer/Art Director Christine Taylor
[EDITOR'S NOTE! Each year since forever, I've polled an annual selection of Portland's fashion-related industry insiders to get their takes on the best and worst of the past year, from trends to...
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The Best and Worst of 2015 Style with West End Select Shop's Ragen Fykes!
[EDITOR'S NOTE! Each year since forever, I've polled an annual selection of Portland's fashion-related industry insiders to get their takes on the best and worst of the past year, from trends to...
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