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Marjorie Skinner is the Portland Mercury's Managing Editor, author of the weekly Sold Out column chronicling the area's independent fashion and retail industry, and a frequent contributor to the film and other arts and feature sections of the paper. She has been writing about Portland life and culture for the Mercury since 2001, produces one of Portland's largest annual spring fashion shows, and occasionally answers emails.
There’s an elephant in the room, so let’s just get this out of the way: If I say “women” and “full-contact football” in the same sentence, many of you are gonna think “dykes.” Here are the facts: The Portland Shockwave, your local full-contact all-women’s football team, has about a 50 percent lesbian turnout in their […]
Oh, how the time does fly. Just ask the folks over at Pala, who are celebrating their one-year anniversary. Part music, part lounge, and part fashion, Pala has been home to everything from runway shows to modeling cattle calls over the past year. Naturally, the anniversary extravaganza (titled Fashion a Go Go), will feature a […]
The latest in a string of successes for local designers: Rachel Turk and Nathaniel Crissman, who together comprise the label church + state, and who recently debuted their spring collection of short, white pinafore-esque pieces, “The happys. The sads. And the buttermilks.” have made it as finalists in the Gen Art Styles 2006 International Design […]
The Promise—a Chinese film originally titled Wu ji—is a fantasy film of a Chinese legend, in which a starving little girl with a dying mother makes a desperate promise to the toying Goddess Manshen: She will be beautiful, adored, and live a rich, pampered life, but in exchange she will lose every man she ever […]
Come out, come out, wherever you are. Winter is being defeated by spring. Stores are stocking new spring items, and there are some fashion shows you should check out to help you get excited about barbecues and bars with patios—or more precisely, what you’ll wear to them. On Thursday, there will be a showcase of […]
We’ve all seen the Portland male fashion whore. His hairdo, however askew and unconventional, is calculated. He sometimes wears jeans from the women’s department, and he may not shop a lot, but he has a favorite store and a favorite label, even if it is “The Bins” and “Converse.” The type has been around for […]
We must have gone through 50 inches of make-up and 20 cans of hairspray on Sunday, April 9, as models were prepped and prettied for the Portland Mercury‘s Second Annual Fashion Showcase. Cramming the Wonder Ballroom’s bunker-like backstage, hair and make-up artists worked their mojo, applied braided extensions and lashes, and navigated a flurry of […]
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