Our friend, the talented and lovely Eden Dawn writes a blog called Shop Talk for Portland Monthly magazine. She has this to say in today’s post on Chicago Harper’s showing at Portland Fashion Week on Wednesday:
“Chicago Harper
What I loved: This line Joshua Buck designed for Sharon Blair’s Studio SKB company featured impeccable tailoring. I have one word for the pants: amazing.
Hoping to be helpful: If the goal is to hit up the Portland market, I’m worried the innovation will be a tough sell, but simultaneously I don’t want discourage creativity. It’s a tough one.
With all that massive amount of thought, praise, suggestions and confusion in my head I went into the longest judging deliberation we’ve ever had for Catapult.With panel members ranging from educators, to other designers, writers and shop owners there were a lot of conflicting opinions. After it was all said and done, we agreed with the audience vote and chose Amanda Grisham and her Pendleton based coatdresses to be the next Emerging Designer. We also wanted to make a special acknowledgement of the innovation we saw Joshua Buck making with menswear.”
So here’s a question to you: Did you attend PFW/Catapult on Weds, Oct 5? What did you think? Love to hear your thoughts.
And see you at PFW Market on Sunday, Oct 9, 2-4 pm (11 am-4 pm if you’re a buyer) at the Benson Hotel. Let’s see if Chicago Harper can sell in Portland!
