Archive for August, 2007
Among the Portland fashion designers we like to keep an eye on, Liza Rietz and John Blasioli (a broken spoke) are two with a unique points of view. Both keep pushing in new directions, usually through unusual detail, while holding a wearable core. It makes more than perfect sense that they’d move in together in a conceptual/business sense (you’ll see what we mean when you see their lines on the rails in close proximity). So it is that the two have opened a joint studio/shop.
This Friday August 31 from 5-8 PM marks the grand opening of their new studio/store: Liza Rietz and a broken spoke (305 NW Savier). Find, food, drink, and Hostile Tapeover who will DJ with cassettes (which probably makes him a CJ, but who’s counting).
Posted on August 30, 2007 | Filed under designer, shop | Permalink
You can see that Portland-based jewelry designer Melissa Stiles is an architect by training. Clean, focused, her stainless, aluminum, silver and opaque resin jewelry under the label Stubborn is distinctive and modern.
Her husband Dan Stiles is a designer who designs and screens some of Portland’s most interesting rock show posters. On Thursday, August 30 at the Ace Hotel (1022 SW Stark), they’ll have a joint show of their work presented by ReadyMade Magazine. Reception starts at 6 PM, with a lecture on their work, from inspiration to production, at 8 PM. You’ll have a chance to win a free signed and numbered poster, a piece of jewelry, 2 VIP tickets to the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival, and a one-night stay at the Ace, plus you’ll find free ReadyMade bags and $5 ReadyMade subscriptions!
Meanwhile, you can find Stubborn at Tilde, Relish, and REDUX in Portland.
Posted on August 29, 2007 | Filed under event | Permalink
Olio United. photo Minh Tran via ultrapdx.com
Friday night’s grand opening of new Eastside boutique Olio United (1028 SE Water) was sensational with tunes by DJ Ohmega Watts and food by Eat Your Heart Out. But the focus was on fashion, for you, your lover, your child…. First-time retailers brother and sister David Williams and Cathy McMurray, and their friend Korinne James are as swell as their mix of sustainable/ethically-produced goods.
Posted on August 26, 2007 | Filed under Uncategorized | Permalink
The Bee and Thistle (120 NW 10th) on its 10-year anniversary, opens in its new location in Portland’s Pearl District. Long a source of accessibly-priced, on-trend clothes and accessories on Nob Hill, B&T slides down the West slope for its next decade.
Posted on August 24, 2007 | Filed under shop | Permalink
Portland-based designer Michelle DeCourcy (with a newly redesigned website) introduces her fall 2007 line at a show and soiree in the Pavilion next to her Michelle DeCourcy boutique at 916 NW Flanders this Thursday, August 23 from 5-9 PM. You can get a preview of the preview on DeCourcy’s recently redesigned website.
Posted on August 21, 2007 | Filed under designer, event, shop | Permalink
Don’t mourn the momentary disappearance of the sun. Fall (our favorite season of the year, fashion and otherwise) looks smashing at Amalee (909 N Beech). In addition to new goods from Orion London, Kersh, Virginia Castaway, and Shine, you’ll find summer goods at 20-50% off.
Posted on August 20, 2007 | Filed under shop | Permalink
photo via lilleboutique.com
Lille Boutique is having its first online sale with 10-30% off select items from brands like Eres, Vera Wang, the Lake and Stars, and Dessous. This E Burnside boutique has a beautiful mix of understated, elegant lingerie that, lucky for those of you reading this from somewhere beyond the bridges, is all available on the Lille website. Save enough on sale items and you can splurge on this set from Elise Aucouturier:
photo via lilleboutique.com
Posted on August 18, 2007 | Filed under sale | Permalink
Alberta boutique, Mabel & Zora (1468 NE Alberta) is having an on-the-cusp-of-fall event tomorrow eve, Friday, from 5-9 PM. While you’ll find 20-50% off all summer goods, you can also preview fall pieces from French Connection (our fave of the lot), Tulle, SweetPea 525, and more. Plus, shoes!
Posted on August 16, 2007 | Filed under sale | Permalink
Through Sunday (August 16-19), Mario’s (833 SW Broadway) Summer Sale goes out with a bang with 30% off the last marked price on all sale items. And Mario’s, you know, is one of the only (if not THE only) places in Portland where you’ll find the finest luxury goods from Chloe, Christian Louboutin, Dolce & Gabbana, Habitual, Jil Sander, Lanvin, Manolo Blahnik, Miu Miu, Narciso Rodriguez, Prada, Pucci, Tod’s, and Vera Wang. Now, we can’t say for certain what items you’ll find at the sale. But we can show you this video from Style.com of Monsieur Louboutin as an aerial artist (note the Iron Cross!):
Quote of the day: “I wanted to do shoes that were just for seduction, for pleasure, for sex. In this shoe, you cannot run, you can’t even walk. If you want to run in a shoe, buy sneakers.” — Christian Louboutin
Posted on August 16, 2007 | Filed under sale | Permalink
Filed under the category of “good, knock-you-out design doesn’t have to mean expensive” are these brilliant Cedar Boat Trays we saw the other day at Canoe (1136 SW Alder). Each of these elegant trays is a single piece of wood sliced terrifically thinly, the ends folded in to make its boat shape. We love them for their simplicity and their foregrounding of the wood’s grain.
These are the kinds of little vessels that can bring not just order but beauty to the necessary Million Little Things from change, to shells, to paper clips with which our lives, desks, bureau-tops are filled. They’d also make great containers for gifts. Craig tells us, “We’ve even sold these to customers for cooking—someone poached halibut for their bridge club in them!” And the three sizes that range from a little handful to two handfuls are priced between 40 and 75 cents. Take two, they’re small.
Posted on August 14, 2007 | Filed under shop | Permalink
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