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Despite the general excitement of Portland Fashion Week, there was a sense that it was not an accurate representation of all the fabulousness our local designers here in Portland have to offer. Many talented local designers were missing from fashion week due to high participation costs etc etc. However, these designers got the chance to showcase their fabulous clothes at Content. Located at the Ace hotel downtown, each designer was given free reign to transform their hotel room into the ideal space to showcase their fabulous designs.
And transform they did. Each room was like a different world! There was the murder room, the dinner party room, the German outer space room, the speakeasy room, the room with the fish in the sink + bathtub, the room with the cute guy making jewelry, and so on. It was great! Not only were there tons of beautiful clothes to look at, but it was also a full blown spectacle filled with nooks and crannies of meticulous decoration. My next few posts are going to take a closer look at some of the designers featured at Content. 
So the Ready To Roll show was refreshingly more low-key than the rest of fashion week. The crowd was smaller and had way more bikey and punky people compared to the "I love the Pearl" crowd that made up the night time shows.
This show gave me hope that more people are going to get into bike commuting strickly based on the new wave of fashionable biking attire. Ready To Roll proved that there is a lot more to bike clothes than your typical spandex. There was a lot of stuff on the runway that you wouldn't even have to change out of when you got to work or wherever, provided you were not ridiculously sweaty. Some of the clothes harkened back to the bike clothes people wore in the early 20th century, while other designers took practical staples like helmets and panniers and made them way cute.
Since all the designers (29 in all) were lumped into one show, it was hard to tell exactly who made what. The most obvious was the accessories. My favorite was Nutcase Helmets. Good job guys! Way to make a non-dorky helmet. Okay well, all helmets are kinda dorky, but these are stylish and offer a lot of variety. I am going to get the gold sparkly one and wear it even when I am not riding my bike. Shit, I'm just gonna sit on my ass and watch Melrose Place and look fabulous on the couch wearing that thing. Wait, I just went to their website and my gold one is not there, dammit! Now what am I going to do!?
Uh, anyway, my favorite thing about this show was that the models actually rode bikes down the runway. The runway was narrow and you could see the fear in the models eyes as they wobbled onto their bikes, trying their best not to take out front row audience members. Amazingly, no models or audience members were killed.
I was lucky enough to catch the Pet Shop Boys on their Pandemonium tour last month at the Moore in Seattle. My heart started missing a beat when Neil Tennant came out on the stage wearing a Balmain style studded jacket. Oh Neil, you are so fabulous. I was also pretty into the cubes that the band and all the dancers were wearing on their heads at the beginning and how one by one they shedded their cube hats over the course of the evening's show. And what a show it was! Fabulous!
I saw this girl walking past the Victoria and Albert Museum. It was around five and i think she was just leaving work; she had that tired, rushing to the tube to get home or to the pub for a drink, post-work vibe about her. I nearly keeled over, she was so fabulous. Good thing I was sitting down.
After I took this picture I totally followed her for a couple of blocks so I could keep looking at her outfit, picking up on the subtleties of its fabulousness. I really like her sock tights.
