To critics who have complained large solar panels are simply unsightly, the fashion world tends to disagree. If it seemed like runway at Portland Fashion Week was beaming with energy, perhaps it’s because the platform was professionally engineered to do so. SolarWorld, this year’s primary sponsor of the event, provided flat black solar panels which were transformed via keen eye for design into the actual strip cat walked by models from start to finish. Sleek, elegant and environmentally conscious found common ground, quite literally, just beneath the feet of fashionistas as surrounding crowds applauded in approval.The set-up itself was not all that energized crowds throughout the event. As designers from host city of Portland all the way across the pond to Paris converged to bring together some of the freshest designs around, crowds lost themselves in a word of style and imagination, while remembering the importance of preserving the world around them. Read the rest of this entry »