Open Season: The Mercury’s 8th Annual Fashion Show
May 12, 2012 by karenvitt
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By NEAT SHEET staff
It’s once again open season on the PDX fashion landscape, thanks to The Portland Mercury’s 8th annual Open Season spring fashion show at Sandbox Studio, 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 12.
Each spring, The Mercury’s managing editor Marjorie Skinner (M.O.D. fashion editor extraordinaire) manages to round up much of the best design talent [...]
Haunt Studio Sample Sale with nine neat local designers
By Erin Flesch, NEAT contributor
East Burnside’s latest indie shopping venue Haunt, the studio/showroom/boutique brought to life by local fashion goddesses Holly Stalder, Laura Irwin and Rachael Donaldson, is bringing the best and brightest of Portland’s design talent together under one (tiny) roof and hosting a killer Haunt Studio Sample Sale featuring nine super talented PDX designers.
Haunt’s fall [...]
Designers Holly Stalder + Laura Irwin open Haunt fashion studio
June 30, 2010 by karenvitt
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By Erin Flesch, NEAT contributor
Holly Stalder, a.k.a. one half of the design team that brought Portland’s indie fashion scene to the national stage a decade ago, has a new project up her well-tailored sleeve. Best known as co-founder of the groundbreaking boutique Seaplane, Stalder is now setting up shop alongside local hand-knitwear designer Laura Irwin [...]
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Watch the CONTENT designer slideshow here
October 19, 2009 by karenvitt
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From Gatsby to gore, Sunday night’s CONTENT showcase at the Ace Hotel was an independent fashion experience to be reckoned with. Presented by new indie promotional group How We Develop, more than 35 Portland designers took over the hotel’s second floor to display their latest and greatest in rooms decorated to suit their whimsy – [...]
Neat STUFF
Watch Pinkham’s “Procession” slideshow
October 10, 2009 by karenvitt
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In stark contrast to the slick Portland Fashion Week productions taking place in the industrial shipyards this week, some of Portland’s uniquely talented independent designers put on a fantastic display of quite a different sort in Southeast Portland last night.
Inspired milliner Dayna Pinkham presented a funereal style procession of her latest headwear designs, worn by [...]
