The lounge last night before the Project Runway edition of Portland Fashion Week was packed for a showcase featuring last season's winner Seth Aaron Henderson along with co-contestants Jay Sario and Jonathan Joseph Peters. The odd one out was Goga by Gordana, from season six's Gordana Gehlhausen. She opened the show with crocheted dresses and lucite heels color-coordinated with cut up children's socks, setting the tone for a collection that would've benefited from a half-step backward away from flash, like the rhinestone panels splashed against otherwise-awesome patchwork leathers:
Jay was up next with an experimental denim-heavy collection. here's where I think it worked best:
Then he ended things with a dark, dramatic flourish that any good witch would die for:
