Going Gaga for Portland’s BENT Halloween Ball
October 25, 2010 by karenvitt
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By Karen Vitt, NEAT editor in chief
Fashion’s favorite holiday is right around the creepy corner, and this year many of Portland’s most stylish citizens will be taking their elaborate, sexy and crazy costumes to BENT: A Hallow’s Eve Ball, a badass benefit for the Equity Foundation of Oregon at the Left Bank Annex at 8:37 p.m. [...]
Help a critter out! It’s Buffalo Exchange Coats for Cubs
October 19, 2010 by karenvitt
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By Karen Vitt, NEAT editor in chief
Baby animals do it for us every time. We want to help. And if we can help out by, um, shopping… well then, OK! Let us wipe away a tear and head to Buffalo Exchange for its annual Coats for Cubs campaign starting Saturday, November 13 through Earth Day on Friday, [...]
Neat DEAL! Benefit shoe drive + Save 20% at PedX Shoes
June 5, 2010 by karenvitt
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Is there a woman out there who doesn’t have too many shoes and who still wants more more more? We thought not. Scoot yourself over to Alberta Street, then, for the PedX Shoe Shangri-la Shoe Drive to Benefit Dress for Success Oregon, running Sunday, June 13 to Sunday, June 20.
Here’s how it works: Just gather up [...]
Neat PEOPLE: Dionne Warwick designs Power of the Purse
April 29, 2010 by karenvitt
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Legendary purse-o-nality Dionne Warwick is on her way to Portland for tomorrow night’s Power of the Purse, the big annual party and designer purse auction to benefit Girls Inc. of Northwest Oregon. Celebs and notable locals worked with Portland-area designers to create one-of-a-kind handbags for the event, and guest designer Warwick was teamed up with local label Minou-Minou. We’re [...]
Power of the Purse preview: Dionne Warwick’s design!
April 27, 2010 by karenvitt
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Alliterate with us: Portland purse party! Legendary purse-o-nality Dionne Warwick is on her way to town, and local celebs and designers have been in cahoots for months preparing for Power of the Purse, which finally POPs at Portland Art Museum this Friday, April 30.
Earlier this month in The Neat Sheet’s Power of the Purse preview, we [...]
Neat photos! Boutiques Unleashed pet fashion show 2010
April 10, 2010 by karenvitt
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By Karen Vitt, NEAT editor in chief
Entertainment for pet lovers doesn’t come better than this: A llama in drag, a scaredy cat and a rabbit wearing a graphic black-and-white checkered dress by Project Runway designer de jour Seth Aaron Henderon. Last night’s Boutiques Unleashed, the fifth annual people and pet fashion show to benefit the DoveLewis [...]
Boutiques Unleashed fashion show a “Project Petway”
March 19, 2010 by karenvitt
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If there’s anything The Neat Sheet is more fanatical about than fashion, it’s pets! We’re excited to combine our two great loves and participate in the upcoming Boutiques Unleashed people and pets benefit fashion show, to be held at The Tiffany Center in Portland on Friday, April 9.
We’ve been working with DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital to [...]
Hell on High Heels business boot camp for women
February 25, 2010 by karenvitt
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Oregon’s struggle to cope with record-breaking mass layoffs and a roughly 11 percent unemployment rate took a few more hard hits this past week, with announcements of layoffs at Lucy activewear (which will relocate its headquarters so San Leandro, Calif. this summer) and The Oregonian newspaper, which let go 37 employees yesterday – the first ever layoffs [...]
DKNY Outlet Store opens Friday in Woodburn
February 19, 2010 by karenvitt
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Neat shopping news for budget-conscious (and style-conscious) Oregonians!
New York designer Donna Karan, maker of the popular and modern classic DKNY brand, will open the first Northwest-based DKNY Company Store (that’s a more classy way of saying “outlet store,” by the way) at Woodburn Company Stores this Friday, Feb. 19.
Shoppers can save 4o to 75 percent [...]
Mardi Gras on Mississippi + Haiti benefit Saturday
February 12, 2010 by karenvitt
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Keep your tops on, people. This Saturday’s Mardi Gras on Mississippi event in North Portland is a decidedly more family affair than those raunchy Bourbon Street festivals down south. Plus, all proceeds from this Saturday’s Mardi Gras event will benefit relief work in Haiti.
Merchants on Mississippi will create a carnival-like atmosphere on Mississippi Avenue from [...]
