Mag-Big designer/founder Cassie Ridgway is always up to a million different things (including being an occasional Mercury contributor). So in addition to owning a boutique, producing fashion shows, designing clothes, writing, working at a restaurant, being vice-president of the Hawthorne Business Association, um... what am I forgetting? Oh right, she's in a band called Fault Lines.

So when she was planning the photo shoot for the fall/winter Mag-Big collection, she had the idea to use some of Portland's female musicians as models, something she's done before in fashion shows like the annual summer Alley 33. The idea was to riff on a Vanity Fair-style shoot, and it took off. So much so that she now says is "so huge, we are breaking it into a series in which we will release one set of photos per month."

The first of these, shot by Jason Quigley, features members, past and present, of Orquestra Pacifico Tropical, Great Wilderness, Sugar in Wartime, What About Us, Sara Jackson-Holman, Fault Lines, Edna Vasquez, Sallie Ford, Point Juncture, Wa, Thanks, and Daughter Talk. And, Ridgway says that later editions will also feature folks like Laura Gibson, Luz Elena Mendoza, and Kathy Foster. Check out more from the shoot, up now over on MOD.