POOL

What does Vegas have to do with fashion?  I’ll tell you.  The POOL Tradeshow!  That has a lot to do with fashion, and is totally involved with Las Vegas Nevada.  How?  Well, Las Vegas is home to many a tradeshow.  For some reason, people love to go there to buy and sell in huge groups at the convention center.  It’s real hot in August, but that’s when this one is scheduled to take place.  It takes place twice a year, once in late August, and again in February.  It’s POOL guys!

So, this  year I have decided to take the plunge.  I bought my ticket and I’m not returning it.  Luckily I’ve got an amazing posse of fellow designers coming with me.  My Fashion Fight Clubbers are coming along and I am so stoked.  We’re borrowing a huge van for 3 of us to ride down in, the others are flying.  Smart.  But boring right?  I’m excited about the idea of a fashion oriented road trip!  We’ll have tons of clothes, hangers, banners, signs, cards, billboards, flags, bags, and computers all piled up in the there to use over that hot late-August weekend.  In honor of our Portland environmentalist spirit, we will be located in the Eco section of Pool.  Most of us use organic fabrics or end-run materials (end-run means when the fabric is being discontinued and therefore basically must be bought up or it will be thrown out) and all of us manufacture in the States.  Some of us even manufacture by ourselves.

They call it POOL, maybe because they want to create an oasis of fashion.  Maybe because it sounds like the place you want to go when it’s hot.  Maybe because it rhymes with cool.  Who knows!?

I hope to see you in Vegas August 25-27.  I’ll be there in my huge 8′X8′ booth, drinking emergen-c and sneaking in some yoga moves when nobody’s looking.