Portland Fashion Week Emerging Designer Auditions
August 11, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat EVENT, Neat STUFF
By Monique Balas, NEAT contributor
The countdown is on for local fad-flashing phenomenon Portland Fashion Week, and the kick-off starts with tryouts for our fave PFW event: The Portland Fashion Week Emerging Designer Auditions, from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, August 22.
The auditions offer a stylish showcase for up-and-coming designers to show off their wears [...]
Neat NEWS! Portland Fashion is set to MERGE for Fall 2010
May 19, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF
Portland + Fashion. Those two little words have become the stuff of big controversy in recent years, as local event producers, marketers and designers struggle to find the best way to showcase Portland’s burgeoning design scene. Enter the latest Portland fashion missionaries: MERGE.
Four well-known Portland fashion industry personalities have teamed up to produce MERGE, a Portland [...]
Semper Fashion celebrates style with M.U.A.H. Palooza!
May 6, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat EVENT
By Erin Flesch, NEAT contributor
Mark your style calendars: Semper Fashion, the company responsible for the rebirth of the increasingly big-deal Portland Fashion Week, has a new trick up its fashionable sleeves… M.U.A.H. Palooza!
Now, you may be wondering quietly to yourself what the what that could possibly be. Well, M.U.A.H stands for “makeup and hair” and palooza, of [...]
Sustainable style + fleece fashion at Better Living Show
March 23, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat EVENT
Semper Fashion, the ambitious local founders of Portland Fashion Week, will present a series of sustainable fashion shows and introduce Fleece-a-nista, a new couture fleece fashion line, as part of The Better Living Show at Portland Expo Center this coming weekend, Friday, March 26 through Sunday, March 28. The Better Living show is Portland’s most notable sustainable [...]
Neat Street: Belmont blooms on the last day of winter
March 21, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STREET, Neat STUFF
Spring arrived a day early to Portland this year, and Eden Dawn Killen is one of the many fashionable gals we spotted on Southeast Belmont Street making the difficult wardrobe transition from cool weather to warm.
“I had to dig into my summer closet today,” Killen said. Summer closet? She has a whole summer closet?! It [...]
Most memorable Portland fashion moments ‘09
December 31, 2009 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF
Letter from the editor: So, how are you stylish Portlanders feeling about 2009? I’m hearing some grumbling (ie, “2009 bit hard”), but it also seems this turbulent year brought some much-needed change, and set the stage for a fabulous 2010.
The Neat Sheet was born this year. It sort of just fell out of me accidentally, [...]
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Junk to Funk turns trash into cash
November 10, 2009 by karenvitt
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Let’s talk trash! Portland Mayor Sam Adams and The Mercury’s Marjorie Skinner will co-host the annual Junk to Funk recycled fashion show, 7 p.m. this Saturday, Nov. 14 at McMenamins Crystal Ballroom.
The trashy couture fashion show will feature about 25 to 30 original style statements created from garbage, presented on a runway and voted on by [...]
Neat STUFF
Vintage jewelry fashion finds at Wordstock
October 11, 2009 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF
It goes without saying that wordies love books the way fashionistas love shoes. We fondle pages with anticipation the way you finger suede booties at Nordstrom on your lunch break. And we collect piles of must-reads we never have time to crack, the same way you’re holding hostage those $400 silk skyscraper stilettos in your [...]
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Fashion Week closes with Sustainable Sunday
October 11, 2009 by karenvitt
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Portland fashion’s green goddess, Anna Cohen, headlines Sunday’s closing night of Portland Fashion Week, bringing her latest Imperial Collection from the ranch to the runway. Tonight is billed as Sustainable Sunday, with a focus on green and sustainable designers including Cohen and A Fortes Design of Portland, Ethos Paris, Jonano of Pittsburgh and Mountains of [...]
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Jantzen makes at splash at PFW tonight
October 10, 2009 by karenvitt
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Jantzen Swimwear headlines Portland Fashion Week tonight, as the runway shows continue for a fourth evening at Vigor Industrial Shipyard on Swan Island. Jantzen is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and while no longer headquartered in Portland the company was launched here in 1910.
Jantzen chose to feature a full runway show in its hometown tonight, so [...]
