1. Heating & Cooling (by Jessie DeWall)
My Spring collection is composed of wearable summer dresses, unique jeans and tees, and accessories. I combine vintage-inspired details with modern fit and immaculate construction. My designs are available to all shapes and sizes!
2. Sarah Seven
Sarah Seven offers a style for women that are shamelessly romantic with a modern touch. Using sustainable fabric as well as recycled goods the line is both chic and green. Available for purchase- online at sarahseven.etsy.com or at Olio United after 2/28/09
3. Idom Designs
IDOM, a line designed by Modi Soondarotok for the fashion-forward woman, combines equal parts creativity, quality and social responsibility. Clean, modern andoften oversized, IDOM’s original styles feature a combination of muted tones, bright colors, bold graphic patterns and natural textures. All IDOM pieces are handmade in Soondarotok’s native Thailand. For IDOM’s spring/summer 09 collection, Soondarotok took inspiration from lace and also features hand loomed Thai silks, cottons and knit jersey pieces that are upbeat and playful but elegant and wearable day or night.
Soondarotok’s collection can be found at her NE Alberta Street boutique, also called IDOM. 1600 NE Alberta Street or www.idomdesigns.com
4. Popina Swim
Pamela Levenson, who grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, has been working in the garment industry for the past 20 years. This experience has given her opportunities to work for Guess? Jeans in Los Angeles, Ca and Paris, France and several of the larger clothing companies in Oregon. Pam began working with swimsuits while in fashion school in Los Angeles when she worked as intern at a prominent boutique bathing suit shop in Hermosa Beach California. At the time Pam never dreamed the skills she acquired cutting, measuring and doing custom suit orders would come in handy in such a direct way. Pam has lived in Northeast Portland, Oregon's Beaumont Wilshire Neighborhood for the last ten years, which is an easy 20 minute walk from her home to the shop.
Popina Swim is swimwear inspired by the past and the great woman who wore them. Born from a vacation to the Mexican Rivera, one of the first swim suit styles was created because Pamela could not find a fashionable swimsuit that fit and flattered. Pamela has always had a passion for styling of the past (40’s and 50’s in particular) and the swimwear is no exception. Reaching back to those areas Pamela has created styles with the influence of days gone by but with the modern convenience of today’s fabric innovations and bathing suit construction. What’s great about Popina Swim is that you can be active or just relax on the beach in style. You will find Popina Swim somewhere between the Copacabana of the 40’s and Ipanema today.
5. Sofada
sofada is a line of handmade contemporary women’s apparel designed and owned by Alice Dobson.
Alice’s vision for clothing is inspired by her childhood growing up on the boardwalks of the Oregon Coast, bike rides in Amsterdam, and the unabashed purity of yesteryear. sofada strives to make comfortable, beautiful clothes with depth. We’ve gone about this by using soft fabrics with a textured emphasis and impeccable tailoring, ideally lending the garment a special feel and timeless quality.
It’s our ultimate goal to make long lasting pieces that our customers will covet and wear for many years to come.
sofada is sold at finer boutiques in cities such as Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles and Chicago.
6. Erhart Designs
Erhart Street Wear is a visual fingerprint of who we are and where we are going. Each colorful piece from our lifestyle line is a rebellious statement against the over-produced and under-thought barrage created in the Far East. Employing uber creativity, exotic colors, vintage and mill end fabrics, we ensure that each collection is contemporary and relevant. Erhart Street Wear hollers "Here we are, watch where we go!"
Erhart chooses to work with individuals with the dream to make their marks on the apparel industry. From our fabric buyers to the force of seamstresses, all players employ their individual strengths and skills to become independent forces of change. Erhart believes that a collaborative network of individual agents is necessary to create a dynamic movement that will remain timeless within our industry.
Much like our namesake Erhart focuses on women and men who live the dream. We design for individuals whose social calendar takes them from proper to party within minutes.
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7. maytee
maytee® is for the style conscious women who appreciate intelligent design and effortless dressing. The aim is for the wearer to present polished looks with minimal work. The maytee look is tailored, minimal and intelligent. maytee designs with the purpose of emulating a “quiet luxury.” Her path to fashion has shaped an approach that is influenced by the logical thinking of her advanced computer science background, giving way to an innovative internal dialogue that explores unfamiliar territories and a truly refined creative vision.
maytee is available at Mario's Portland and Parallel in the Pearl District.
