Portland Fashion Week carries megawatt style — with a solar-powered twist

Fiercely chic styles, musingly beautiful models, thumping music, designers basking in applause, and crowds dressed to make an impression they’re all part of Portland Fashion Week. The five-night event, which finished Sunday, showcased work by a variety of designers, from Portland to Paris.

The centerpiece of this year’s Fashion Week was the runway itself, which was collected of black solar panels afforded courtesy of one of Fashion Week’s sponsors, SolarWorld. Behind touring the Hillsboro manufacturing plant, Henderson went to work and came up with a crazily imaginative array of looks that made their debut at Saturday night’s runway show, at an industrial-chic space at Vigor Industrial Shipyards on Swan Island.

The Saturday show moreover featured spring/summer collections from Henderson’s fellow “Project Runway” veterans Gordana Gehlhausen, Jay Nicholas Sario and Jonathan Joseph Peters. But Portland Fashion Week wasn’t merely about TV-related glitz. The week’s lineup also featured Portland designers showing their substance in an installation-type format, also runway showcases for designers from Seattle, Portland and Bogota, Colombia-based designer Amelia Toro.

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Katy Perry commences clothing line with Steve Madden

Appears like nothings too much for the fab Katy Perry, after causing a stir in children’s entertainment it has been said that she will be undertaking into the fashion industry and collaborating with shoe designer king, Steve Madden.

Pezza, very well recognized for her skin tight latex dresses, we speculate if this theme will continue into her shoe designs?

Madden has before collaborated with the Olsen twins for their Olsenboye and Elizabeth and James clothing.

We can’t wait to monitor the results that Pezza and Madden come up with! Exciting!

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Paris Fashion Week draws to a shut

The final day of Paris Fashion Week yesterday saw three very dissimilar shows from Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu and Hermès as the three labels showcased their Spring/Summer 11 collections.

Louis Vuitton was camp, colorful and fancy. The show began with cabaret-style red velvet curtains drawing back to disclose another pair of sparkly tiger-print ones, from which models showed between three stuffed tigers.

The chic black marble catwalk hosted models in fringed 1920s-style flapper dresses and tailored coats in profligate block colors such as red, purple, pink and gold.

Gorgeous accessories included jeweled shoulder and clutch bags in citrus shades such as orange and yellow, and regal tones as well as turquoise and gold.

The animal theme continued with sequin pandas printed on tunic tops, zebra-print dresses and giraffes showing on the back of stunning white silk trouser suits.

Meanwhile, Miu Miu’s show was all about celebrity and ambition, with stars such as Dakota Fanning and Alexa Chung on the front row.

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