PFW Day 5 – Amai Unmei
Amai Unmei revealed a collection awash in blues, greens, and silvers, very reminiscent of the ocean. All created in silk (with many of the coats in an animal-friendly silk where the silkworms are not killed by steaming prior to emerging from the cocoons), the...
PFW Day 4 – Lizzie Parker
Designer Lizzie Parker's line was inspired by French film, with a little 80's bohemian twist to it. She wanted to create something flattering for a variety of different body types, above all creating a well-crafted garment that anyone could wear. She always wears her...
PFW Day 4 – Saffrona Classics
Designer Sarabeth Chambers of Saffrona Classics created her collection around a revolutionary new seaweed-based fabric known as Seacell. Developed in Germany, this fabric is made of Lyocell (100% wood-pulp fiber) and seaweed, with about a 5% seaweed content overall....
PFW Day 3 – Sameunderneath
Designers Tyla Dahlman and Andrew Van Zanten said they were inspired by the 1970's Cuban Revolution when designing the Sameunderneath S/S '09 Collection. In it we saw lots of bright, fun colors, great cuts, linen, and organic cottons. The line definitely had a low-key...
Portland Fashion Week – S/S 2009 Collections
Known as the first fashion show in the country to focus on sustainable and eco-friendly fashion, Portland Fashion Week has been around since 2003, but since 2007 has made the entire event eco-friendly and sustainable. (From construction of the actual runway with...
PFW Day 3 – May Tee
Surpisingly, designer May Tee was originally a software engineer for ten years, working at Intel, before she made the transition into fashion. She attended school at Parsons, spending summers in London and Italy, even working as a freelance designer for Versace. What...
PFW Day 3 – Alula Clothing
We missed out on the opportunity to interview Seattle-based Alula Clothing's designers, Katrina Thomson, Chelsey Burton and Beth O’Leary, but according to their website their S/S '09 Collection was inspired by thoughts of "sunkissed skin and warm afternoons...the...
PFW Day 3: Nike Considered
Nike as a company has set the laudable goals of becoming completely sustainable within the next ten years, both in business practices and in materials they use, and are actively working towards this. (Kudos!) "Nike Considered" is actually going to soon drop the...
PFW Day 1 – Art Institute of Portland – The Good &… The Bad AND Ugly.
Student fashion shows can sometimes be a hit-and-miss affair...there's always something jaw-droppingly amazing, along with piles of so-so, seen-it, and just downright-sorry-to-say-so-but-there-it-is ugly. We don't want to tread even harder on downtrodden, struggling...
Shop Savvy, Shop Cheap: Web Deals & Promotions for 10/10 – 10/17/2008
With Columbus Day (October 13) looming ahead, there's a mega-ton of sales and discounts available across the web. Here are just a few that I've managed to list (since I'm covering Portland Fashion Week right now, I'm skimping on the list a bit:-) Happy Shopping!...