Somebody’s press-release happy lately. Portland Fashion Week quickly followed its leak regarding the Emerging Designer Showcase auditions with a press release outlining this year’s programs. Fashion Week will run October 5-9, with a market day on the 9th. They are also launching a campaign called “Portland Fashion Week::Come Shop Buy.” The stated goal is to “to create closer ties between the designers, retailers and shoppers,” with the Pearl District Business Association signed on as a stakeholder “through a series of crossmarketing initiatives.” (Stay tuned to MOD for what exactly that means.)

And they’ve divulged a few of the designers who will be showing: “Anna Cohen (WWD cover, Vogue France, NY times, Elle France), Seth Aaron (winner of Project Runway Season 7), Jay Sario (Project Runway finalist), Ethos Paris, Ms. Wood (winner of PFW Catapult 2010) and Stephanie D. Couture.” No real surprises in there, but I’m particularly happy to see Ann Cohen and Ms. Wood in the mix again this year.

Ms Wood

  • Ms Wood

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...

4 replies on “Portland Fashion Week Announces (Some) Designers”

  1. I can just about hear the internal thought process of whoever made these crapulent “shoes”.

    What should I do at the bottom of the legs, hrrrrm, what’s the correct aspect of beauty to accentuate… what’s the right way to cast the foot, simultaneously delicate and essential, where our body meets our world a thousand thousand times a day…. yes, I know. We’ll make it look like they forded a shit and tar flood before seeking refuge in the scrap wood bin.

  2. Yeah… no one is ever going to wear these. They look like something Matthew Barney would force someone to wear while they shoveled petroleum jelly into a pig’s carcas.

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