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Contents
Gift
Guide 2
party!
Men's
Fashions
Where's
the Party
Party
People Gifts
Entertain
your Brain
Essentials
Goodies
Mood
Music
Boy's
Fashion
Girl's
Fashion
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women's fashion
Who Owns Bartertown?
Tina Turner cut a mean-ass figure as the methane-hustling
Auntie Entity in Mad Max III--and it wasn't just
those teething-ring earbobs. Join Tina and her band of feral
followers in Destroy's grey suede "Raider" boot ($168,
Bad Doll Shoes, 815 NW Glisan St., 525-2202), and live tomorrow's
fossil-fuel shortage today. Besides, we can always use another
hero to rule Thunderdome, and she has to have heavy treads.
Ain't these a pair, Raggedy Man?
Soul in a Sack (pictured)
A skinny Paris shopfront houses an artist who will, for
a few hundred francs, compose a painting of the contents
of any woman's handbag. The purse itself stars at the center
of the canvas, with the usual flotsam of keys, crumpled
receipts, and down-at-heel lipsticks arrayed around it.
By the time it's finished, each completed painting is an
uncanny portrait of its owner's psyche. Prolong personal
mystery with a Timi & Leslie handbag ($30 to
$150, Mimi & Lena, 823 NW 23rd Ave., 224-7736). The
soft-focus vintage fabrics and crisp, structured shapes
of these bags transmit wonderfully mixed messages.
Au Courant
If we can assume that fashion magazines are reliable prognosticators
of the couture curve, and not just glorified circulars in
thrall to industry, then this winter it's all about gold,
all the time. Your favorite it-girl, That Girl, or Riot
Grrrl will shine like the top of the Chrysler building in
this acrylic-lurex sleeveless shell and foiled
suede pants. Both in gold, both by Lux ($32/$135, Urban
Outfitters, 2320 NW Westover Road, 248-0020).
Clan of the Cavewear
The magic of Forever 21 is not that the clothes are so
damn cheap. It's that they restore risk and brute cunning
to a demographic usually served by mega-merchants competing
for the Frowsiest Pleated Khakis Award. Plus, this polyester
satin-lined faux-fur vest was manufactured without the
sacrifice of any living thing, unless you count dinosaurs.
($18 (pink) or $27 (red), Forever 21, Pioneer Place, 340
SW Morrison St., 241-0488).
D&G or DIY
America's clingy relationship with the T-shirt is almost
100 years old. Originally World War I standard-issue (yet
another fashion innovation we purloined from the Continent),
T's are the newest target for designers seeking to redefine
classics--check out Dolce & Gabbana zodiac T-shirts
($69, Moda, 615 SW Park Ave., 227-6522). Or improvise an
ersatz version with decals ($15-$25,Teaser's T-Shirts, Beaverton
Mall, 3205 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton, 526-8970). The
gentleman who assembled our sample has been in the biz 19
years, and there's nothing he doesn't know about trends
in do-it-yourself T-shirts--"Foxy Grandma," apparently,
is coming back.
If You Have to Have a Reason...
Because you've had about enough of the shantung sheath.
Because your champagne tastes are in a nasty divorce with
your beer budget. Because every imperfection in a good vintage
garment tells a seamy, steamy story. Today's party princess
needs a glamour gown complete with fat satin label
in loopy script: Gigi Matine, Haute Confection, Lilli Diamond
for Her. In this fashion moment of injection-molded robot
sneakers, mid-20th-century glamour is going cheap. (Cocktail
dresses $50-$100, Lady Luck Vintage, 1 SE 28th Ave., 233-4041).
Daddy, I Want a Pony
Even if you were never one of those "horsey girls," there's
an undeniable lure to the equine. Dress for the west in
sturdy denim with silkscreen print on lower leg: Built
By Wendy slacks (brown or blue, $115, Odessa, 611 NW
13th Ave., 223-1998). For the Kim Deal in your world, this
L.A. designer also offers a build-your-own guitar strap
website, with 16 colors and 24 designs, including kitties,
puppies, girlies and, yes, ponies ($40, at Builtbywendy.com).
Collared Green
Grace Kelly had a legendary jawline, Audrey Hepburn batted
eyes the size of jawbreakers, and Lana Turner's bod made
jaws drop. But to become style icons, old-school Hollywood
honeys had to get dressed. Usher in your own legend in this
textured wool coat with extravagant collar by JP &
Mattie ($226, Matisse, 1411 NE Broadway, 287-5414). The
half-French, husband-wife, small-batch design duo still
rips and schleps each and every garment, which means this
star-quality stunner doesn't live at the mall. In sage (green)
or cocoa (brown).
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