"comes an event who's time has come"

Jesus.

This is Tod Foulk here, founder of SEMPER Fashion and just sayin' I LOVES IT! Guessing "Bonus Round" is a pornographer, thief, psycho, or ex associate producer who got the well deserved ax from SEMPER.

Anyways 11 years in the field; contributing more than $100,000.00 to charity; a very very conservative estimate of $2,000,000.00 to the local economy; 4 tons of food to the Oregon Food Bank; $27,000.00 for 7 vendors and over $60,000.00 for our sponsors in just 3 days from last March's Better Living Show; being asked by the likes of Concept Entertainment, The Arena Mngmnt Corp, Widmer Beer, Lady Gaga's Management team, The Ecopalooza Project and Blue Ocean Events among many to produce fashion shows for them; being a nominee for Portland's "The Best 2011 Award" and the Columbia Gorge Champions 2011 Award for our eco-minded and sustainable practices; planting 4540 native trees and shrubs to offset our carbon foot prints over 4 years; stabilizing a tributary to Johnson Creek where the 1st wild coho salmon in 30 yrs were found; being the 1st fashion week in the USA to showcase sustainable and plus sized apparel; launching the careers of now internationally recognized stylists, models, photographers and designers; working hard to make Portland relevant instead of keeping it weird; and I could go on, causes comments such as above. I guess it just seems hard work, dedication to a profession or cause, and a modicum of success will engender jealousy among those few insecure in their standings, or with their own agendas to advance!

I don't need to brag as stable, confident people with normal, well deserved and healthy self esteem don't generally engage in that behavior, but I always take the time to use a negative forum to rebut my detractors, as I am doing here. But thanks for catching my typos- I knew I should have invested in Lasik!

Oh- and there will be chairs at this fashion show! Unlike one annual event which will remain nameless.

I will also go to say that my associate in this endeavor Jessica Kane rivals me in her civic mindedness and contributions to the economy, and having a penthouse office from downtown Vancouver over looking the Columbia River with Peregrine Falcons dodging among the roof tops in no way precludes her from any contributions to the organization nor instills a lack of confidence on anyone's part. This is just down right ridiculous and mean spirited to even try to say that!

oh my gosh. hide behind an anonymous post and say what you will. puffing my chest for an entire paragraph is simply edifying those who are only familiar with your denigration, and since no one but jessica even comes close to my 11 yrs in the industry i can speak the truth.

really 100 vip guests had no seating? hmmmm....ticket prices reflect seating, and i even bring in enough extra chairs in case someone like grandmothers or whomever purchased a general admission ticket actually need to sit.

you obviously have proved my point about some jealous hater who was unceremoniously dumped running around crying wolf. go ahead, it's a free country!

the high school debate team geek in me really hates leaving a statement unchallenged but i just don't really have time any more for rebutting someone who won't even use their name when casting dispersions. have a nice day! :D