Eugene Weekly : Feature : 8.11.11

Fashion

Fashioning Eugene Local designers bring “wearable art” to the masses

It’s in the Bag Eugene artist brings vintage charm to leather accessories

Ink for the Ages Permanent is the ultimate fashion statement

The Soul of the Whit Found fashion from the Whiteaker Block Party

Show Me Fashion show puts the icing on annual Whit extravaganza

BRING Fashion

 

The Soul of the Whit
Found fashion from the Whiteaker Block Party
photos by Trask Bedortha

Raucous and all kinds of free — as in spirit-wise, admission-wise and wheelin’-wise — this year’s Whiteaker Block Party on Saturday, Aug. 6, represented the only true and real and enduring soul of Eugene. Meaning, of course, the salutary and as yet un-co-opted community of beings who earnestly believe in art and purity and beer and loud music and, most of all, each other. This was the actual-factual celebration, and EW hit the streets to capture a sample of The Party’s on-the-street style. 

 

Rachael Blanchard 28, from the Whit 

 

Wanja Blair 18, from the Whit

 

Maria Kuzmin 24, from Jefferson Westside

 

Karmenife Paulino 18, from New York City

 

Kya Shayla 21, from out River Road