Producing high quality limited-run clothing in Portland just got easier, faster, and more technologically advanced. See and read more on the new Filo Factory over on MOD.
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Lunchtime Facial (HA!)
Wanna get a cheap facial? (Commence “I can give you a free one, heh heh heh” jokes.) The Paul Mitchell School (234 SW Broadway) is having some sort of awesome sale. Granted you will be experimented on by “future professionals,” but geez o’ Pete is it a smokin’ deal. Haircuts $9.95Color starting at $27.95Highlights starting […]
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Remember Kenley?
If you watched Project Runway last season to see Portland designer Leanne Marshall win it, then you will no doubt recall Kenley Collins as the reality show’s de facto villain. Wonder what she’s up to now? Oh, not much. Just braining people in the head with laptops. The reality star allegedly attacked her sleeping ex-fiancé […]
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Fashion Tips For The Recall Sam Spokesman
Recall Sam Adams spokesman Jasun Wurster drew some harsh criticism from Blogtown commenters yesterday for wearing a hoodie to address city council:WURSTER: WEARING A “MOTHERFUCKING HOODIE…” TO ADDRESS COUNCIL, IN THE WORDS OF YESTERDAY’S FIRST COMMENTER… Wurster responds to the critics: “Democracy does not have a dress code,” he says. “There’s a lot of barriers […]
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The Traveling TOMS Show
If you pay any attention to shoes, you are likely aware of the rise in popularity of TOMS, the shoe company that gives one pair of shoes away to a child in need of them, mainly in Argentina and South Africa, for every one pair bought by a guilt-ridden liberal/paying customer. I actually quite like […]
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Top Model Stampede!
Terror struck NYC’s America’s Next Top Model auditions on Saturday when an overheated car inspired some confused person to yell, “BOMB!!” And if you think there’s anything more terrifying than hundreds of wannabe Tyra’s emitting teakettle whistle screams and trampling you with their fuck-me pumps, then you have quite an imagination. (No need to watch […]
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Luxury Fashion: Made in Portland
Portland designer May Tee used to shuttle back and forth from New York City’s garment district to produce her line of supreme-quality luxury women’s clothing. She wanted to produce locally, but was unable to find a production house in town that could meet her standards. So she founded her own. Read more about May Tee […]
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What Savagery Is This?
Check out Jean-Charles de Castelbajac‘s contribution to the fur/fashion dialogue: Photo via dlisted. Gotta love it. Click over to MOD to see what they did to Animal. Also recall Castelbajac’s Lego-inspired looks from Spring ’08—and definitely check out the video (how badly do you want the Anna Wintour Lego figure?!):
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Alice Awards: Hot Bikes, Hot Glue.
Saturday night under the glaring lights of the Oregon Convention Center, Sprockettes rubbed shoulders with city bureaucrats at the Bicycle Transportation Alliance’s annual dressy Alice B. Toeclips Awards fundraiser. During the night, TriMet announced it would spend $1 million from the stimulus on bike parking and the BTA handed out awards to several bike advocates, […]
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In Which I Inquire How to Get Tia’s Starcase
Growing up, I was a wee bit obsessed with Escape to Witch Mountain. My sister and I would race home from school to fire up the old Betamax to watch the scene where Tony and Tia wander around their new playroom in Daddy Warbucks’ mansion. Remember the ice cream parlor and Winky the Cat’s tricked-out […]
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Leather Love
If you have a thing for beautiful, vegetable tanned leather pieces (especially of you are looking for a belt that is going to last forever), you should check out the new things coming from the local company Tanner, whose new pieces in English Saddle leather look so good that I can practically smell that new […]
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Women Parading Around in Their Underwear
And such nice underwear, too! See more from Saturday night’s fashion show at the Benson Hotel over on MOD, including my favorite dress of the evening, which I want you tell me whether or not is too ’80s. No, really. Let me know.