colorful argyle socks!

Swims Mobster Foul Weather Galoshes (mobster!)

Coven braided jacket at Una

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Find out what I'm griping about after the jump, and enjoy the view of Leanne's latest challenge:

If you are interested in participating in the next show here is what we need from you:

-Sketches of your original designs (6-8 looks)
-Fabric Swatches
-Photos of past work (Doom Town alumni are exempt from this)
-Brief summary of the inspiration for your collection and background information on you and/or your company.

We have a limited amount of space so only the most innovative designs will be featured.

Menswear is strongly encouraged.

All submissions must be in by 8:00PM on Friday, October 24th.

For more information please e-mail us at elizabeth@fashiondisorder.com or vanityguns@hotmail.com.

Having been to these shows I can assure you that they are high energy, super-fun events, and the audience is usually bobbing up and down to the music, the models look like they're having a blast. It's a great way to get exposure for your line out to an audience that's not just fashion-oriented but also potential clients in the music scene.

So get crackin'!

See more pics from the last show here and here, all by Minh Tran!

More musical fun at End Hits: Where a world without actual musical instruments isn't just a dream.

Supermodel Heidi Klum's hit reality TV fashion design contest Project Runway has been dealt a severe blow as it plans for a new season - a New York judge has blocked the show's move to America's Lifetime network.

The judge has issued a preliminary ruling against the Weinstein Company, which owns Lifetime, to prevent network bosses airing the sixth season of the programme.

Make it work, Tim. Goddamn it, make it work!

Something to tide you over until the scheduled May release of the movie. Nice outfit, Sacha!

Emily Katz

Just for the boys: If you haven't noticed, the new boutique Parallel has been stepping up Portland's game on the menswear, and tonight they're hosting a menswear trunk show to celebrate, featuring Shipley & Halmos and Trovata, plus wine, munchies, and music. RSVP at info@parallelpdx.com for the 6-8 pm event, during which all men's clothing will be 15 percent off!

Shipley & Halmos

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Before the models took over, players at the theater in downtown Tokyo acted out skits instructing viewers how to tell when elderly loved ones need diapers, how to convince them to put them on and how to properly use them.

In one skit, an elderly man shook his head in dismay after his wife pointed out that he wet the bed overnight again.

"Ah, maybe the loose-fitting diapers I use during the day aren't good to use at night," he concluded, leading to a discussion about well-padded nappies made especially for nighttime use.

and:

Nursing home caretakers Mitsuru and Aya Habuka watched with rapt attention, exclaiming when diaper models they hadn't seen before were displayed on stage.

They all kind of look the same to me...

Find out who after the break!

Meet Amy Embler. Two weeks ago she was just a regular, cute girl. Then the ladies of Fat Fancy worked their magic. Clothes, hair, makeup!

See the result of her transformation by clicking on over to MOD. (It works now. Fingers crossed.)

Join us tonight at the Tanker at 8 pm for Leanne, LL, and LL's pythons:

The answer plus spoilers after the break!

So then why do we keep seeing such delicately thin young girls model clothes meant to be sold to women with mature figures? One little addressed reason may have to do with the manufacturing process: it's cheaper and easier to mass manufacture clothes that have less built-in shape. Garments with less shaping hang more attractively on linear bodies. Bust darts, waist darts and curved seams are all more difficult to both fit and sew than straight seams. These are the elements of tailored garments that enable clothing to sit smoothly over shapely curves. But-- it takes time and expertise to perfect these elements and this can cost a lot of money. Additionally from a financial perspective, garment pattern pieces with straighter seams can produce better yield from a bolt of fabric. Think about it like this: if you have two cookie cutters, one square and one round that you apply to equally sized sheets of dough, which will give you more cookies with less wasted dough in between?

Fashion cycles keep whirling faster as stores both encourage and cater to consumer demand for a constant influx of new merchandise. Designers are being pushed to their limits to keep up. In today's global market place, having a fashion business is all about dealing with economy of scale- if you can't produce quickly and in large volume, it is very, very difficult to stay in business.

It's definitely worth a read if the issue troubles you at all, and it rightly doesn't let anyone, including consumers, off the hook.

Idolator kind of ripped her a new one for it:

Are you ready for a brave new world where cultures collide in unexpected ways? And where you can pay $180 for the privilege of wearing a fruit-adorned hoodie?

Fern Mallis, who oversees New York Fashion Week, saw a more clear winner: Marshall. "It worked from the beginning to the end. There was a concept, she made it work beautifully, and executed it."
Last year's winner, Christian Siriano, agreed.
"I thought Leanne's was fabulous," he said. "She has to be winner, because everything else was not cute."

Watch the video here!

Still looking for a decent still photo... Style.com doesn't have the show up yet, and New York Magazine inexplicably has a slideshow of every contestant except hers. Grrr.

UPDATE!! The photos are up!

Tropical Plus Fours by Humanoid at Le Train Bleu

It all goes down at The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel (1022 SW Stark), 11 am-6 pm.

We save you money over on MOD.

The answer and spoilers are after the jump for all of you late-to-the-party people. If you haven't yet seen the episode, get ready for the claws to come out. In the spirit of the judges' removal of gloves and coming-out of claws, I will also cease to hold my tongue and say this: Who gives a GODDAMN what Heidi Klum thinks about fashion? SHE IS A FRIGGING UNDERWEAR AND SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SWIMSUIT MODEL. (AND NOT EVEN GOOD UNDERWEAR!) Just keep that in mind when you notice how the only comments she can muster in this episode ARE ABOUT BOOBS. Okay. Better.

This episode might well be called "The Reunion Show," as all of this season's eight aufed contestants will be called back to partner with the eight remaining contestants. The challenge: create a dress that reflects the zodiac sign of the aufed designer in the pair. There was some discussion over at Blogging Project Runway about what role the aufed designers will really play--are they merely clients? clients and models? collaborators?--but after viewing the previews about a thousand times we're ready to say they are collaborators only, not clients or models or any combination thereof.

All of this is precipitated by an episode of Project Runway Australia, in which the aufed designers were also brought back and paired with the remaining designers. In that episode, the aufed designers were both collaborators and models, but the real trick of the episode--and one that played smashingly well, we thought--was that the previously aufed designer on the winning team won a place back on the show. So important was this in PR Oz that the previously aufed designer who won her way back on is now in the final three.

Will our Project Runway follow suit? It would certainly up the ante for the aufed designers, and reinvigorate the show mid-season. It all sounds great, until you realize that even just aufing two designers--which has been confirmed by the Powers That Be at Bravo--we're still left with six designers on the show just three days away from the filming of the finale at Bryant Park Fashion Week. (The finalists show their collection at Bryant Park while the regular season episodes are still airing, and the finale episodes are edited together in-season, to be ready in time for their debut.)

But the way this has worked in the past is that four or five designers show lines, with one or two of them acting as red herrings for the viewing public. That way, we don't know which of the last four or five designers the judges are actually scoring. But six runway shows? That's a lot. And now, if one of the aufed designers is added back in, that could mean seven runway shows. At some point, this becomes like the hockey playoffs--everybody makes it, and nobody cares.

Here's a preview video of tonight's episode to tide you over--we'll be watching tonight at The Tanker, where the whimsical DirecTV oracle contends that it will begin at the regularly scheduled hour of 8 pm.