Jené DeSpain ! In Portland 7/9

I am so excited to see the lovely Jené DeSpain next week! There is a rather nice write up about her on the Mercury Online.
http://mod.portlandmercury.com/mod/archives/2010/07/02/jen-despain

See her next Friday July 9th at Pin Me Apparel from 4-7pm. Her jewelry is most lovely. I had the pleasure of using it in my Fall/Winter shoot. Here is another sneak peak. Entire collection to hit the interwebs soon.

this = that

Last Tuesday:


Friday Night:


Available at:
Pin Me Apparel
Moxie
Union Rose
Radish Underground

Trunk Show Saturday 11/28 at Pin Me Apparel

It's Thanksgiving week. Hopefully that means you are stuffing your face with yummy treats, and getting out those sharp elbows for shopping deals.

On Saturday I'm having a trunk show from 3-7 at Pin Me Apparel. I will have yummy treats and good deals. I will have my Fall/Winter line for sale, along with a special selection of limited edition No Muffin Top skirts.

Read all about it here:
http://pdxneatsheet.com/neat-sale/clairvintage-pin-me/

Hope to see you there!

Remember shop local!

Favorite things....

This is one of my favorite things. Seeing one of my dresses in a shop window.
It may also be on a screen near you soon....more details on that later.

Spring Trunk show at Pin Me Apparel

So if you are not busy Saturday, come on down to Pin Me Apparel (3705 N. Mississippi, PDX) and visit me! I am having a trunk show from 4-7. Also check out the Spring Greening Event that is taking place on the entire street. Hope to see you there!

I love pretty fliers!

This one is for the one I'm in! Yeah! Come see me.

Fall Collection 2008

In stores now!

Pin Me Apparel
3705 N Mississippi Ave
Portland, OR 97227
(503) 281-1572

Lucia Apparel
424 NW 11th Ave
Portland, OR 97209

Get Directions

(503) 222-5244

Moxie
2400 E Burnside St
Portland, OR 97214

Get Directions

(503) 296-6943

1 down, 1 to go!

Last night was the fashion show for ExplodeLaMode. I had 6 models and I think they all did an awesome job. On the way to the show from hair/make up, there were 6 of us crammed in my car. With our big hair, we kind of looked like a scene from a John Waters movie. Too bad no one got a photo. Hopefully some photos will surface soon, I was backstage during the show. I also got pre-press for the show and didn't even know it. (that is how busy I have been!)
Portland Mercury - Sold out!

The Art Institute of Portland asked Sarah of Lucia and I do to the Rock the Runways show as alumni of the school. That show is next weekend. I'm pretty excited for that, and we will both be showing 10 looks.


Other then that I have just been sewing like mad crazy. I have 2 fall styles delivered Lucia, and soon to Pin Me and Moxie.

Hopefully I'll have some photos soon. Our studio space is almost 100% complete. I have been waiting to post before and after photos of that. We are 98% done.

Busy as usual....

Really I can't even thing of a time where I haven't been busy. It's nice to relax, but I'm usually having the most fun, so being busy is just fine with me.

Right now all of my spring/summer items are in the 2 stores I sell at, Pin Me Apparel and Lucia Apparel. If you are in the Portland area, please check them out.

Here are the photos of some garments on my rack, freshly steamed and tagged, read to go to the stores. This stage is always my favorite, or where I feel the most proud.


Last Sunday I spent the day (with many others) helping my very talented friend, Sarah Wallace, get her store ready to open. She had been working on the space for weeks, and it was finally the exciting time to set up all of the fixtures, get the garments ready, and arrange the store. Here is what it looked like around 9:00 am:


There were a total of 9 tote bins of clothing. You would be amazed how many garments you can get into one of those bins.

Around 2:00pm, mannequin dress up time:




9:00pm



I guess I was pretty tired, since this was the only photo I took of the after

Here is the sign from the street, and one of my tops in the window:





In other news, the fabric I ordered in Las Vegas arrived. However, the spring/summer items I had ordered were all out of stock. I took this as a sign to get a jump start on the fall/winter items. (and a much needed break for myself). Last night I sewed up the first of my prototypes, a plaid sweater. It looks great, and makes me wish it were fall now, so I could wear it. I can't wait to start production sewing, I just love sewing knits. I am also going to do 2 jackets in the line, a new challenge for me.

I would also like to show off the newest member of my sewing machine family. I got this one to live in my house, not my workspace. Since it is very compact, and of course beautiful. If I have not already mentioned, I do not like new sewing machines. Why buy plastic when you can have a solid machine? I rescued this baby off of craigslist.org and had it tuned up for half the cost of a cheap new machine, plus it came with the cute period desk and stool. I'm in love.


As mentioned before, Muku and Mr. B are available for modeling.

Finally! Some photos....

Last week I did a shoot with my lovely friend Nina and photographer Tyson Robichard. I have a few items ready to go to shops, and that is what we shot. We used my apartment as the location, since it was easy, and when we shoot the rest of the stuff, the setting will be the same. So here is what I have been working on. I will be taking the first delivery to Pin Me Apparel Tuesday evening, so items will be for sale this week. Yeah!!

One of my cats, Muku, makes his modeling debut. He's available for booking. Ha ha.

Things that make me happy....

Seeing something I have made in a shop window is a never ending source of excitement for me. The red dress, on the right is mine. Part of a now defunct clothing line I was doing with a friend. The shop is Pin Me Apparel 3705 N. Mississippi, in PDX. If you haven't been in already, you really should.