Tomorrow, Saturday, December 28 from 12-4 at dragonlily (1740 SE Hawthorne) hosts a trunk show for Jennifer Thomas dresses and separates. Get 10% off Jennifer Thomas and dragonlily items on Saturday only (does not apply to sale items).
The post-holiday sale at Mabel and Zora
(1468 NE Albertaz0 means 25% to 75% off much of the shop including dresses, skirts, sweaters, candles, soaps, lotions, purses, shoes, hats, and more!
Now that you’ve given, surely it’s your turn to receive. Not that your loveliness needs any enhancement—you’re a beauty, baby—but why not indulge in a little gilding around the edges. Blush Beauty Bar (513 NW 23rd), Portland’s candy store of a beauty boutique, is having a storewide sale beginning today, December 26.
Perhaps you will be wondering, come tomorrow morning, what might be the best use of the tidy little sum of green notest that your favorite, if eccentric, aunt has sent you in a card she made herself from a photo she took of the Rauschenberg in her ballroom. May we suggest hiding it in a drawer until Thursday, January 10 at which time you can take advantage of prices up to 60% off at Mario’s Winter Break Sale (833 SW Broadway). You know we’ve so much more of winter that last year is going to look very this year well into next year. Merry Christmas every one.
Yes, generous and giving to a fault. But while one does good, should one not also look good? From now until Christmas Eve, Physical Element (1124 NW Lovejoy) offers 15% off very nearly the entire store including coats and dresses like this multipartite dress from cop.copine, pieces from IKKS and more.
At a time when bolder shapes and colors are poised to show the delicate and overly precious a thing or two, Portland-based jewelry designer Alisha Alderman’s graphic takes on Art Nouveau and Deco forms are intriguing.
Alderman’s most recent collection was introduced in July of this year, right about the time she was preparing to move to Portland for love after nearly a decade in Seattle.
She’d studied at Seattle’s Pratt Fine Arts Center and had done jewelry production work for a couple of years for Seattle designers including Kimberly Baker. “If there’s one thing you learn from doing production, it’s that you learn to be fast which is absolutely necessary if you’re going to do your own line.” Alderman launched her line, Alisha Louise, launched in 2005.
Currently, she’s working out of her house, doing all of her own production, working to get her line into more shops and minds. We asked what led up to this collection. “Around the end of summer I started reading a lot of my favorite book, stuff set in 20s (and even earlier to turn of the century). Then I just found myself for hours in Powell’s looking at design books.”
The result is a mix of Deco and Nouveau, “but I wanted to make it modern, give it a clean silhouette rather than filigree and minute detail,” she says.
We asked her what’s next. “I want to develop more of the handpainted pieces, smaller shapes that I can put together. I’d also like to do casting.” Find Alisha Louise at Seaplane, Imelda’s on SE Hawthorne and Le Train Bleu.
a look from an earlier Alisha Louise collection
Posted on December 15, 2007 | Filed under designer | Permalink
APAK
Yes, Crafty Wonderland’s Super Colossal Holiday Sale is their biggest yet with more than 100 artists and makers selling their goods. But the extra curious bonus reason for going to the sale this Sunday, December 16 from 11-5 PM is that it’s held in the Norse Hall (111 NE 11th) built in 1928 by the Sons of Norway! The French and Italians may have a Catholic leg up on the ritualistic pomp of the holidays, but nobody does winter like Scandinavians. Skål!
sky&boat
It’s a little exhausting to think about it, but handicapping the century’s worth of designers, we’ll be looking for APAK, sky&boat, Monsieur T, and the slightly haggard 80s goodness of MapleXO’s jewelry from recycled skate decks.
skate deck earrings from MapleXO
Moulé (1225 NW Everett) today, Thursday, December 13 begins a sale during which all fall/winter mens and womens clothing, handbags, and shoes are 30%-50% off. This mega-boutique in Portland’s Pearl District has an incredibly curated selection of designed gifts for man, woman, child, and home.
the holiday window at Flutter on N Mississippi
From top to bottom, N Mississippi gets in the spirit with a special edition of its regular Mississippi Social tomorrow, Thursday, December 13 from 5-9 PM (some shops 6-9).
Flutter (3948 N Mississippi) has Michael Papillo playing at 6 PM, with models in Frocky Jack Morgan, treats, and 20% off all holiday ornaments and decorations.
At Amalee (909 N Beech) you’ll find hot cider and 15% off all holiday dresses including those from Clione and Orion London.
Porch Light (3972 N Mississippi) has an incredible selection of holiday decorations, buckets of them!
blue (3753 N Mississippi) has everything at 20% off, snacks, drinks, music, and a reception for new work by Portland Pop collagist Shauna Haider who’s adopted the nom-de-brush, Nubby Twiglet.
Phlox (3962 N Mississippi) is hosting an opening for artist Riki Lynn Henderson and a trunk show for jewelry designer Agnieiszka Zoltowski. Plus, all regularly priced apparel will be 15% off during the party.
Pin Me Apparel (3705 N Mississippi) is offering 20% off everything in the shop for the evening.
Sameunderneath (905 N Shaver) is also open for the evening and
Black Wagon (3964 N Mississippi) is opening a show of Trish Grantham’s work.
Posted on December 13, 2007 | Filed under event, shop | Permalink
Tomorrow would be a very good day for you to buy me the red shiny Japanese schoolgirl bag (resized for a grownup) that I’ve always wanted. That’s because tomorrow, OFFICE PDX (2204 NE Alberta), where you’ll find this bag, is giving 20% of all proceeds on Wednesday, December 12 to the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA).
And it will all tie together into a Higher Order of Things as the desire for the bag was stoked to new heights by the Yubiwah Hotel performance at PICA’s TBA Festival a couple of years ago.
PICA > TBA > Yubiwah > bag love > OFFICE PDX purchase > PICA. See? Poetry.
OFFICE PDX is calling the 11-7 shopping event, Pencils, Portfolios, and Paper (and we’ll add “red shiny bags”) for PICA. Oh, and you have to purchase in-store, not online, for PICA to get their share.
–Radon
Posted on December 11, 2007 | Filed under event, shop | Permalink
