Great news for local up and coming fashion designers who might feel adrift in the scary apparel world: A number of designers (including Erhart’s Chelsea Erhart, Leanne Marshall of Leanimal) have joined force to form the Fashion Fight Club, a brand new collective aimed at sharing information and resources, anything from fabric sourcing tips to banding together to present at trade shows like POOL. Things are just beginning to get off the ground, and you can check the blog (linked above) for information on upcoming meetings and events. The eventual hope is that it will serve as an open source of information to the group, membership in which is predicated on, as Erhart puts it, “being a designer and not being mean, basically.” Get in on the ground floor and help define the collective’s aims and regulations by contacting Erhart, and by stopping by a trunk show this Sunday at Olio United from noon-5 pm, with DJs Beyonda and Equestrian, and members of the FFC selling overstock and out of season pieces. There have been murmurings among Portland designers for years about creating “something” to unify the industry—if enough people get on board, this may just be the thing. And while much remains to be decided, the group is already all over the logo:

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