Fashion
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How fast fashion changed Portland’s local clothes making scene
The online phenomenon known as “fast fashion” has changed how we buy and sell clothes. It’s been a quick shift with more shoppers looking online rather than visiting a local shop. OPB business reporter Kyra Buckley takes a look at how these changes have impacted Portland clothing makers.

Native designs showcased at 2024 UNITY Gala
Closing out the 2024 UNITY conference, youth represented their Native nations through traditional designs and attended a fashion show with pieces from award winning Indigenous designer Red Berry Woman.

Indigenous designers get the spotlight at Northwest Native Fashion Show
Fashion show a part of greater movement to boost small businesses in Indian Country

Vivienne Westwood, influential punk fashion maverick, dies at 81
Westwood's fashion career began in the 1970s with the punk explosion, when her radical approach to urban street style took the world by storm.

This woman gave her wedding dress to a stranger for free, and inspired a movement
Gwendolyn Stulgis walked down the aisle in the dress of her dreams. But after her wedding, she decided to pay the feeling forward to a complete stranger.

State of Wonder
Sneaker Week | Bobbito Garcia | Deer Tick | Ages And Ages
This week on "State of Wonder," Portland gets its first shoe festival, the Coast gets a big new music festival with Stackstock, Deer Tick gets a new acoustic sound and more.

Business
Inaugural Sneaker Week Portland To Showcase Thriving Footwear Culture
Portland is home to footwear giants like Nike and Adidas, to say nothing of coffee shops and design academies catering to the sneaker-obsessed. Sneaker Week seeks to lace it all together.

culture
From Beaver Tail To Stainless Steel: Native Fashion Now At The Portland Art Museum
Native Fashion Now, a traveling exhibition currently on view at the Portland Art Museum, celebrates more than a half-century of indigenous artists and their work.