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Fashionistas, alert! Neodandi House of Couture, which opened its doors this August in Pioneer Square, will be hosting their debut fashion event Saturday, December 5. Off The Wall: A Neodandi Fashion Opera, a tribute to Michael Jackson’s life and unique style, promises "an eclectic evening of Michael Jackson inspired music, dancing and fashion collections for men and women, chronicling the famous entertainer’s career."

Seattle’s vintage clothing and boutique stores are some of the best places to find pieces done by local artists. We stumbled upon these slips while browsing the racks of the fifties-femme shop Pretty Parlor on Capitol Hill, and brought one up to the counter along with a simple question: "Who made this?"

You know you're at a fashion show in Seattle when a dog makes an appearance on the runway and the theme is all about recycled and refurbished fashion and organic fabrics.

There doesn't seem to be many voices out there that speaks in favor of the legislation, other than the CFDA and other fashion designers with big, corporate backing. At first glance, it makes sense why 86% of independent designers and fashion organizations composed of mid-level professionals, like the American Apparel and Footwear Association, oppose the act and fear that the proposed law would create an infrastructure that would hinder creativity and opportunity, especially to those with less of the latter. But we found one...

With the premiere of Project Runway tonight and Product Runway coming up on August 28th, what better time than now to catch up with Project Runway alum and Seattle native Jack Mackenroth? We got a chance to catch up with Jack and get the deets on PR, Tim Gunn, Kevin Christiana, and the fashion design event coming to Seattle next week.

It's right smack in the middle of Seattle's 2009 Elections, and we've noticed a familiar name on the ballot. Kay Smith Blum...Kay Smith Blum--like, CEO of Butch Blum? Yes, Seattle's premier high fashion retail exec is running for Seattle School Board Position #5, and we got a chance to ask her what's the deal.

FASHION HIGHLIGHTS: Seattle Central Community College's Apparel Design program will be featuring their final line and portfolio show, The Shape of Things, throughout the day at the SCCC campus. The show will also include work by students Becky Sullivan and Maria E. Canada, both of whom had recent big wins in the Seattle fashion world. Canada took second place at the 2009 Project Red Dress fashion show, and Sullivan took home first place for both the Seattle Fashion Week Design Competition and the Seamless in Seattle Best Everyday Collection. We definitely recommend checking out Sullivan's collection, as there are some excellent pieces--we have no doubt that we'll be hearing more about her in the future. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. // 1701 Broadway Room BE 1110, SCCC campus // FREE

You know you live in Seattle when all the titles of major cultural events are named after the rain. Enter newest annual Seattle fashion event Parasol Party, brought to us by Courtney Russell of Half Past Lavish Events, Seattle’s own fashion show producer powerhouse. The Parasol Party is a brand new fashion show featuring local rising star Kimberlee Iblings, roaming photographers, exclusive shopping, desserts, cocktails, and a complimentary pampering room overlooking the Clise Mansion gardens with free spa services from Julep Nail Parlor and Bellevue Massage.

The top six winners of yet another fashion competition--Seattle Magazine's Seamless in Seattle Contest--have been selected, and they're pretty familiar to us, here at Seattlest. You've seen, or should we say read about, some of them before in our previous coverage of the Art Institute and New York Fashion Academy spring fashion shows. Finalists presented their collections to a team scrutinizing judges organized by Seattle Magazine, and left one category open for viewers to decide online, won by Eunice Poon for her "I Dream in Cake."

A few weeks ago, a favorite women's clothes shop, Mercer (University Village) held their clearance sale to prepare for the spring arrivals. We are familiar enough with this shop to track their changes in merchandise and we noted several changes--all of which impressed us.

FUZZY: Everyone's favorite NYC-based noise-pop band, the Vivian Girls, are back at Neumo's tonight. Last year, their self-titled debut made it on nearly everyone's best-of list, despite the fact the band lacks the harmonic sensibilities of, say, tour mates like the Pains of Being Pure at Heart (not with them tonight). In fact, for all the talk about a resurgence of "noise pop" with cascades of fuzz and distortion, the Vivian Girls remind us of no one more than the notorious, idiot-savant kiddie band the Shaggs.

There’s been a Seattle Fashion Week since 2003, though it’s possible that you haven’t heard about it until now…and that’s because like any annual BFD event in the works, each year it gets bigger and better. But this year--from the major sponsors, packed after-parties, talented designers, and headliner Blayne Walsh from Project Runway--it was pretty hard to miss.

April 16-18, 7 p.m. // Fremont Studios // 155 N 35th // $20-150 per showcase, dress code enforced

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If it were any other year, we’d probably be a little more pumped for spring season fashion. But ever since this little thing called the RECESSION started, flipping through fashion mags and blogs feels like one giant tease. Instead of stakin’ up on our personal inventory of open-toed sandals, breezy tanks, and oversized designer sunglasses, we’re window shopping and reflecting on the good old days of unapologetic mass consumption of the mid-to-late '90s. But we’re still on the prowl for good deals and of course, free shit. And our friends at Chickdowntown get it. They wanna hook up one lucky Seattlest reader with some glam gear.

It’s springtime in Seattle, and for a fashion writer that means it’s fashion show season—and our favorite—student fashion shows. Like any opening exhibition or thesis project, it’s a time to get excited, embrace your inner proud mama, and feel some serious inspiration from our local, young talent. That is, if the long-ass corporate-produced recruiter video pitch, constant intercom recruitment announcements and enrollment application swapping frenzy doesn’t kill the energy for you.

MargiDavid Salon, in conjunction with Sound Magazine, will host Couture Carnivale, their second annual fashion show, at the Last Supper Club this Sunday, March 29th from 6-11 p.m. The show benefits FareStart, a job training and placement program for homeless and disadvantaged individuals. Sunday's event combines a fashion show featuring four local boutiques, burlesque performances by Miss Sugar Magnolia, Iva Handfull and Fannie Beaverhausen, and music by DJ Sang-Do. We caught up with Carrie from MargiDavid Salon to discuss the hotness.

While we were reporting on Project Red Dress, we got a chance to schmooze with Seattle chapter of Fashion Group International board members Susan (Regional Director-Elect and Treasurer) and Janaea (Programs Chair), also the founders of Beauty Revolution magazine, Seattle's online beauty and fashion magazine. We caught up with them again online and conducted a Google Talk interview, because we're cool like that.

Yes, we're slow in noticing this story, but you do have to enjoy Melinda's Vogue profile for its eye on what matters: "The morning we met she was dressed simply, in a brown suit and pumps. She wore unobtrusive earrings, a thin gold necklace, and a tasteful and restrained emerald-cut-diamond wedding ring (purchased at one of Buffett’s many properties, Borsheim’s Fine Jewelry in Omaha)." And no post-feminist criticism here--where Joyce's famous cry was "Non serviam," Vogue reports approvingly: "She was valedictorian at Ursuline Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school whose motto, aptly enough, was Serviam ('I will serve')."

The Project Red Dress student fashion design competition took place at the posh Fairmont Olympic Hotel last Friday night, so we strapped on our Manolo heels and pretended to be on assignment for Vogue. Rosie Kohlmeier won first place and a $3,000 scholarship, which makes it two for two for the New York Fashion Academy in Ballard-- the little independent fashion school that could… and just did--again.

Other than the perfunctory post-holiday shopping sales, Seattle's fashion community pretty much goes in hibernation in January and February—with the exception of the second annual Project Red Dress fashion competition. The Seattle chapter of Fashion Group International is brightening up our fierce-less February with the largest student fashion design contest to hit Seattle, and not a minute too soon for those interested in fashion beyond North Face fleece.

We wanted to start off the morning with some good news, but after twenty minutes of scanning headlines, we gave up. Nordstrom's 2008 fourth quarter sales were down 8.5 percent, which is significant, but the double-whammy is that crappy start to the New Year. For comparison as to how tight pocketbooks are getting, same store sales are down 11 percent compared to January 2007. We don't like that. Seattle fashion is already a little too thrift-store friendly for our tastes.

Where the giant airport sign doesn't say "Welcome to Fiumicino," but Emporio Armani, and even the dude driving the courtesy cart sports Gucci eyewear. The passengers are wrapped in silk scarves knotted casually at the throat with carefully studied elegance. Designer footwear and handbags everywhere. The flight? Well, Alitalia was shotgunned into a merger with its regional rival Air One two weeks ago, and sold 25 percent of itself to Air France last week, so it's a bit early to say much, other than no inflight magazine, no cocktails, and very few passengers. They showed a movie, though: Fred Claus (Christmas, 2007).

A new weekend post from our new fashion correspondent, Cameron Levin. But before we get to the fashion talk, she's also got the lowdown on some time-sensitive designer retailer events for you:
• Polite Society Trunk Show with acclaimed Russian talent, Madina Vadache, featuring her spring/summer couture collection on Thursday, January 29th, 6-8pm. Vadache will be there for personal consultations and custom fittings. RSVP by January 27th to info@shoppolitesociety.com or by calling 206-441-4796.
• Karan Dannenberg 70% off storewide sale, January 25-31
• Butch Blum Winter Sale, 50% storewide sale

We had no idea Seattle Metropolitan even had blogs, but they do, and the fashion one (the first one we clicked on) by Laura Cassidy is fun. Cassidy was not enamored with Michelle Obama's white ball gown but really dug her lemongrass suit. Seattle Weekly's new music editor, Jonathan Cunningham, introduced himself over at Reverb ("I'm not a hipster. I pull no punches"). Over at Sound Politics, Stefan Sharkansky is freaking out about mail-in ballot signature verification. And the great debate about school closures continues, respectfully, at Crosscut: they've published the School Board's rebuttal of Dick Lilly's argument that the SPS shouldn't close any schools at all.

We sure wish we could be at the Governor's Inaugural Ball in Olympia tonight. The next best thing is reading tweets about what everyone's wearing, obviously; thanks to Tiffany Campbell at the Seattle Times, that is an option. Sample tweet: "Just spotted 2 gals in gowns running down Capitol Way; they must be running late like me." Read the feed here, and don't forget to click on the TwitPic links for visual evidence of gorgeous gowns and fashion faux pas. This is so necessary.

Ellen Carpenter over at SPIN.com makes a great point: plaid is so, so in these days. Look at that Robin Pecknold from Fleet Foxes (pictured), Tom Hobden from Noah And The Whale, or J. Tillman! Something about the gentle, guitar-stroking, whiskered man just screams "I'm humble and gruff, yet still empathetic. And I probably smell like cedar, if you get close enough." Riffs Carpenter after a Fleet Foxes show,

I could have overlooked their militantly woodsy ensembles--they are from the Pacific Northwest, after all--if half of the audience hadn’t been rocking the same look. It seemed like a joke, like one of those Improv Everywhere missions. A flash mob: Lumbercon!

• West Seattle Blog's photos of the sunset over the water remind us that we live in an absolutely stunning part of the United States -- and WSB also reports that something interesting involving fisticuffs (details vague as of yet) went down at Chief Sealth High School.
• Victory tastes so sweet... and failure? Well, resounding failure makes for a great blog entry. B-Town Blog has the details on a Kennedy 61, Highline 0 football game last week. Ouch.
• These are trying economic times, but Subterfuge Seattle comes to the rescue with hints for saving money the fashionable way. Step #1 is to share pants (no, really). Who needs $0.10 ramen noodles when you can share pants?

Get downtown on your lunch hour, like now! According to the press release: "The first 300 customers in line will have the opportunity to celebrate with gift cards worth up to $500 and H&M T-shirts." In case you can't make it today, we went for you the other night. Check out how much fun we had, and then go shopping the first chance you get, before everyone else buys up all the good stuff. We look forward to a Seattle full of people in matching H&M jackets this autumn! The new downtown H&M location is 520 Pike Street.

Seattle fashionistas, get ready because your H&M prayers are being answered. According to the Puget Sound Business Journal, in addition to its Southcenter location, ever-popular H&M will open two new stores in Seattle proper next month. A 19,000-square-foot, two-story location will open in University Village on Sept. 12 and a 16,000-square-foot location will open at 520 Pike St. in downtown Seattle one little week later, on Sept. 18.