Get Your Fabric On

S. RIMMON & CO., INC.

Imported Fabrics of Elegance

&

The Portland Garment Factory

are hosting a SALE & SHOW of

IMPORTED DESIGNER & SUSTAINABLE FABRICS

Our representative Dan Rimmon will be in your area soon showing our exclusive lines

of finer European and designer fabrics and leather. Our complete collection is available to you

with low minimum yardage requirements. He will be showing our new jobber fabrics

from Monique Lhuillier, Frankie B and others!

Wednesday Dec. 8th

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

at

The Portland Garment Factory

408 SE 79th Ave

Portland OR 97215

ALEX DESPAIN

Meet our new friend and space-sharer, Alex DeSpain! We are so happy to have him in one of our studio spaces here at PGF! http://alexdespain.com/
Alex DeSpain is an illustrator and designer based out of Portland, Oregon. He lives with his wife, Vanessa, and his three pets. DeSpain was born in July of 1984 and began drawing at the young age of six years old. Encouraged by his parents, he studied graphic design and some animation at the Art Institute of Dallas from 2002 to 2004. He has traveled with Vanessa across the country and has immersed himself in the Northwest American culture.

He has used his talents for clients like NBC and The Gap. DeSpain also enjoys creating album artwork and promotional illustrations for musicians, videographers, authors, fashion designers, magazines and newspapers.

Currently, he spends most of his time working on his personal and commission work in his studio.


Contact: alexdespain@gmail.com or by phone, 940.368.3711

PGF+Maria Bamford+Target

You may remember the hilarious Maria Bamford from appearances on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job and with The Comedians of Comedy, but most recently, she has been picked up as the face of Target's Holiday 2010 Ad Campaign. Portland Garment Factory constructed the dress she wears in a few of the commercials and we are so excited! Take a look..

SOFT KNOTS

Soft Knots by Britt Howard - Opening Thursday, December 2nd at Stumptown

In Soft Knots, Britt Howard intends to explore the inchoate nature of motherhood and the necessary deliberations that occur when one’s life has become the dependent of another. Knots secure and trap, bind and hold, they are defined through context, transcribed by circumstance. Couching them in feminine textiles implores the exploration of the pieces’ maternal premise. The various uses of texture further imply Howard’s contrasting, developing, and ever pliable relationships.

Britt Howard is an artist and designer from Portland, OR. She has a husband, two kids, and is the owner of Portland Garment Factory. All aspects of her life are regarded with reverence, though she tends to find herself exasperated daily. This is her first public show.

On view December 1st, 2010 – January 3rd, 2011
Opening reception First Thursday December 2nd, 6 pm – 8 pm

Stumptown Coffee Roasters
128 SW 3rd
Portland, OR
503–295–6144
Mon-Sat: 7am-9pm
Sun: 7am-8pm

ICE HOUSE

This warehouse was, in it's inception, used as an ice house. Workers would bring ice from the river and other icy places, like mountains, probably, and they would store it in this 5000 sq ft warehouse-right up to the ceiling. They would chip of a block for grandma and deliver it to her ice box! This is pre-fridge, people! wow.......

Well now it's 2010 and the space finds itself useful to a different type of labor. Portland Garment Factory is excited to bring a fresh tenancy to the space. We will be moving in, painting and feng shui-ing it up in late October.

We will be offering a limited number of work spaces for rent (sizes are negotiable). Email me if you are interested!

Ice House or bust!

xoxox britt

Smooth MOVE

Imagine a roll top garage style door widening itself open for your pallets of fabric and calling to you...more space, more space, more space! The warehouse is to PGF what the bigger house is to a growing family; a necessary change in layout.

You can imagine PGF as a pregnant lady ready to pop one, no make it twins out.

I prefer to think of it like that since I feel it was a baby, I nurtured it and it grew up to be a strong level headed (and fashionable!) lady....who is pregnant.....and now I am about to be a grandma!

What does it all mean to you? Our darling little ranch for two, where we honeymooned and honed a plan for the future, is for lease!

Call me for details. This baby's gonna go fast.

Uh..News Flash Everyone!

UPDATE!

In mid July we had to make an over night decision to do away with the retail/boutique side of Portland Garment Factory in order to make room for the ever bustling (and now bubbling over) factory. Although sad to say goodbye to the retail end of things, we are proud to be equipped with even more machines and capable of more than ever!

We are just busier than bees at a honey convention.......but as always, call us if you need anything because we got your back!