So Portland Fashion Week, if the website that hasn’t been updated in a year didn’t tip you off, has been abandoned. Instead, Executive Producer Tito Chowdhury has started FASHIONxt, which sounds like a stylish new model of vacuum cleaner or curling iron, and somewhat rightly so. Chowdhury, whose day job is as a Microprocessor Design Engineer at Intel, is re-branding the event from a relatively straightforward week of fashion shows with an environmental event, to “not only what is next in fashion, but what is next in personal style technology.” That means in addition to a lineup of designers increasingly dominated by recovering Project Runway contestants (Seth Aaron, Michael Costello, Goga by Gordana, Becky Ross, Joshua Christense, and Viktor Luna) there will be other “lifestyle exhibits” for technology products like Intel’s “Personal Cloud”—inspiration from whence Seth “Corporate Sponsorship” Aaron and Luna are collaboratively designing a line—a newfangled Bluetooth speaker, and the latest reinvention of a $4,000 slow-moving urban vehicles for people who still refuse to simply ride a bike. The whole thing makes me a little paranoid, but hop over for more info and some comforting words from Mayor Sam Adams.
- FASHIONxt
I really hope I never have to read “personal style technology” ever again.
Same old dead fashion horse with a new name and ridiculous double speak. You have to wonder if the local fashionistas have wised up or will they be duped by this outfit once more?
I believe you are a bunch of sad people ,including you Skinner.
Have you ever even attend the show?.
Tito is trying to bring something new to this town..
Allowing small creative business (local business) to have a chance to make it..
Also celebrating diversity in style ,design and choices….
Involving a huge company like Intel that helps 75.000 people in Oregon alone..
Why be so bitter and controversial.
Ike …What have you done lately to bring attention to this little town …?
On a lighter note…
Ike?
Slinner?
Not much better than fashionxt.. I have to admit to that..