By Karen Vitt,
pdxneatsheet.com
Portland style, shopping, trends.
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Team Neat Sheet stormed the Oregon Convention Center Saturday night to gobble up a fashion feast presented by The Art Institute of Portland [6], the school’s annual graduate showing of senior designer fashion collections. The “A Feast for the Eyes” Fashion Show” was staged in two parts over a long evening that included plenty of mixing and mingling by some of Portland’s most fashionable folks, plus a silent auction to raise funds for Oregon Food Bank [7] and the school’s Creative Arts Scholarship fund.
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Part One of the spectacle featured a foodie fashion show titled “Cocoa’s Culinary Couture,” showing colorful costumes crafted with everything from Chinese take-out boxes and coffee filters to candy and metal spoons. It was a fun and theatrical production, but we were even more excited to see what this year’s 18 graduating seniors brought to the table.
OSI Photography [9] was kind enough to share these stellar event photos with us, so we can all have a look at the creative work presented by these up-and-coming Portland fashion designers. The second half of the show was filled with understated, classic collections and downright sexy streetwear. We saw glimpses into both the past and future, hip hop style, Medieval punk, filmy “I Dream of Jeannie” stuff, “Alice in Wonderland” inspirations and more. We invite you to feast your eyes on all this neat new Portland talent.
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Mihaela Munteanu: Moontess
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Andrea Egan: Minerva
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Eddie Shander: Medieval Punk
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Velia Salinas: Ghetto Blastin Sounds
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Megan McGugan: Aviation Flights
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Alexandra Gallatin: Future Tense
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Sudan Price: Ki
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Claire Wolfson: Loagy Bay, A Time Travelers Collection
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Kristina Franklin: Crystallized Flowers
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Julie Grasher: La Bayadère
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Etain Wilday: Steam Dream
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Jason Weiner: Pale Rider
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Cora Lee Poole: Chinook
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Melissa Gaynor: Still Life
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Johanna Lindstrom: Take the Helm
Images courtesy of OSI Photography. View more photos from A Feast for the Eyes Fashion Show here [9]. If you like what you see on The Neat Sheet, please consider becoming our Facebook Fan [25], following us on Twitter [26] and/or linking to us from your website or blog. We need your help to spread the word so we can keep it up!