Saturday, November 14 marks the sixth year of Content, a live fashion installation that takes over the entire second floor of the downtown hotel. Over 20 emerging Portland brands are each given a room to transform into an art installation that gives attendees a stimulating, multimedia glimpse of the creative process behind the products—the emphasis […]
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Announcing the Lineup for Content 2015!
Portland’s Ace Hotel is gearing up on the 2015 edition of Content, on Saturday, Nov 14. Originally conceived by a team including apparel designer Gretchen Jones, Content invites the city’s community of designers to divvy up rooms on a floor of the hotel, transforming each room into installations that reveal the creative inner workings behind […]
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Tonight at FashioNXT: Myriam Marcela
FashioNXT kicked off last night, with three more night to go. Tonight is the fullest, featuring the UpNXT Accelerator competition, a wearable technology competition, and new collection from designers including last year’s UpNXT winner and Mercury favorite Myriam Dyer of Myriam Marcela. Best known for renewing garments and transforming them into unique, one-of-a-kind pieces, unconventional […]
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Grrrl in Motion: Alien She’s Riot Grrrl Capture
To begin Alien She properly, you have to go back to school. Specifically, the sparkling Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design building’s 511 Gallery, part of the new PNCA campus. There you’ll find enough music, zines, and ephemera documenting the formative early ’90s era of the Riot Grrrl movement to immerse yourself […]
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The West Daily Fall Womenswear Launch
This week, Physical Element hosts the launch of fall womenswear from emerging Portland brand West Daily, including a kimono-style jacket exclusive. We asked West Daily designer/creator Jason Calderon about the brand: MERCURY: How does your activewear sensibility play into this collection?JASON CALDERON: I aim for my designs to be directional, but maintain a level of […]
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Final Fade to Light Teaser: Bryce Black!
Regular attendees of the semi-annual Fade to Light fashion shows know that Bryce Black likes to bring the house down. He’s been responsible for some of the most show-stopping moments in the event’s history, like getting professional dancers to infiltrate the runway, not to mention the high-drama tendencies of his actual clothing, which relishes in […]
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Wildcraft, Reif, & Content: The Day’s News in Fashion, Design, & Retail
• If you’re starting to feel those back-to-school fall feels, take a look at the schedule of upcoming textile workshops being offered at the Wildcaft Studio School, including a two-day focus on a Pacific Northwest Native American technique for cedar hat-weaving, raw wool rug-making, loom weaving, and basic leather crafting with Sara Barner. Wildcraft Studio […]
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New In: Fashion/Retail/Design News with OMSI’s Maker Faire, Fade to Light, and Coalesce
—The 2015 version of the OMSI-hosted Maker Faire is coming up right quick on Sept 12 & 13. Unlike most gatherings involving locally made goods, this is more about exposing the process and inspiring visitors to do their own making rather than commerce—there are way more robots than tea towels involved. Bring your kids if […]
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Local, Simple, Accessible Clothing: The Best of 2015’s Alley 33
There are a couple things that help make Alley 33—the annual ready-to-wear showcase hosted by Altar—so popular. Being outside in the alley on 33rd and Hawthorne with an al fresco bar in August certainly helps. Even more so is the fact that this show is the only one to consistently focus on clothing that’s manufactured […]
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Burger Week Preview: Elephants’ The Pig Lebowski
For the third year running, Burger Week brings you limited edition, $5 burgers from your favorite Portland bars and restaurants, for one week only! This year the promotion will run Aug 10-16, giving you just one week to try as many burgers as you can from over 30 participating establishments! To get you prepared, we’ll […]
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Burger Week Preview: Spirit of 77’s House Burger
For the third year running, Burger Week brings you limited edition, $5 burgers from your favorite Portland bars and restaurants, for one week only! This year the promotion will run Aug 10-16, giving you just one week to try as many burgers as you can from over 30 participating establishments! To get you prepared, we’ll […]
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Super Cute Alert: I Attended the “Hello Kitty Super Cute Friendship Fest”
This past Saturday I had what was one of the best Saturdays in the history of Saturdays. It started with a hangover—okay, stay with me now—and ended with meeting my friends so we could attend… drumroll please….THE SUPER CUTE HELLO KITTY FRIENDSHIP FESTIVAL. Pulling up to Memorial Coliseum my friends and I could barely contain […]