This was a reality TV month for me: I ate at Girl & The Goat, ( Top Chef winner's restaurant in Chicago) where a stunningly black charred wrap around fireplace wall makes a perfect centerpiece and I attended Portland Fashion Week, where winner Seth Aaron Henderson, a Vancouver-based designer who won season 7 of "Project Runway," the TV fashion design competition series hooked up with SolarWorld, a solar-energy company, which has an outpost in Hillsboro, to created fashion inspired by green solar energy. "Solar is the New Black". I certainly dressed, appropiatly, in black, Also showing were "Project Runway" veterans Gordana Gehlhausen, Jay Nicholas Sario and Jonathan Joseph Peters, Seth's collection was a fun show stopper indeed, riding the soon to be "not trend" but staple green technology while Gordana, Jay, and Jonathan indulged us in trendy visions of dyed leather, crochet, and lating influence for 2011. Wait till you see the colorful latin influence I have planned for you to play with in spring of 2011!
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