February 2010

There is never a shortage of fashion events to discover the next great talent. This is music to our ears. The more events like this, the more the word gets out about independent and emerging fashion. Fashion that happens everywhere as opposed to the 5 major fashion cities in the world. The collective conversation is making a slow but steady shift from strictly speaking of branded fashion to including lesser or unknown designers. Fashion in this transition becomes a dialogue of personal, individual style versus the next ‘BIG’ trend. We like it.

This Thursday evening, Feb. 11, 2010, Seattle Fashion Week and Comcast are hosting a Student Fashion Design Competition. This is the first round where students will compete for a chance to showcase their designs during Seattle’s Fashion Week. We wish we could be there in person cheering them on. Stay tuned in for follow up photos of the event.

Doors open at 7pm
Event is for AGES 16+
Purchase YOUR advance tickets here!!!
http://www.seattlefashionweek.net/comcast.html

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KARELLE LEVY

Oh, The Tangled Webs We Weave…

February 13 – March 6, 2010
Reception: February 13, 7-10 pm

In the project room, Karelle Levy’s site-specific installation, Oh, the Tangled Webs We Weave, examines the tortuous connections we cultivate. Unlike a traditional spider’s web constructed in ever-widening circles, Levy meticulously shredded her hand-knit fabrics to create a web that reveals a non-linear entanglement of experiences. Similar to its counterpart in nature, Levy’s web is gossamer and oftentimes so delicate as to be invisible. The space will go from illumination to complete darkness, causing threads to shift their hues and creating a labyrinthine three-dimensionality; this dichotomy fashions new notions of interconnectivity, both socially and spatially.

Acclaimed for her Miami-based knitwear line, KRELwear and traveling performance project, KREL 2 go, Karelle Levy was born in Paris, and raised in Miami. She studied textile design at Rhode Island School of Design, which led to knitting fabrics as wearable art and costumes. Karelle Levy’s work has been seen in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar en Español, among many others.

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