Last week's Pink Carpet Project fashion show benefit for Planned Parenthood was a nice little capsule of the diversity of apparel design happening in the Pacific Northwest, from hot little bikinis to fashion forward menswear (look for a re-cap of the whole thing on MOD coming up soon). I had a pretty sweet view of it all from my vantage as co-emcee, and was thrilled to see many of the designs on a runway for the first time. One brand new designer I particularly had my eye on was Brady Lange, showing his designs for the very first time.

I first met Lange as an assistant to Adam Arnold, then later when he began working with Grayling and Blackbird—pretty great influences for a budding designer. Click over to read more.