I love love love Cai Guo-Qiang’s work. They make me so excited about art and installation. Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. The son of a historian and painter, Cai was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute. His work has, since the outset, been scholarly and often politically charged.
I wish that I was back in Spain at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Head On Exhibition was held on March 17th to September 6th, 2009. Enjoy your Sunday!
Sending our thanks to Jen McCabe from Oregon Live. Her blog is really fantastic with all the happenings in Portland. She has been so supportive of us. Thanks Jen! You are awesome! Check out Shopping Oregon here. Also many thanks to Karen Vitt from the Neat Sheet for always writing such lovely things about our IDOM. I have been enjoying her blog very much. Please check out the Neat Sheet here.
We are starting 20% off sale on all new Autumn pieces today for one week until Sunday November 15th. Treat yourself to new beautiful dresses, blazers, blouses, Hill Tribe inspired pants or tunics. Plus we have amazing new jewelry from Sulu, Demimonde, Make Pie Not War, Sami bracelets, and handmade necklaces from Argentina. There are also more beautiful hand loomed cotton scarves from Northern Thailand. Our shop is packed full of new goodies.
This navy blue knit dress has soft draped in the front with a self fabric tide. The piece has the zipper on the left side seam and fully lined. It is chic and cozy. It will take you anywhere from work to play. “Highway 61 Dress”, $374. Please enjoy your weekend. Thank you for reading, everyone.
Take 20% off on our brand new Autumn pieces starting this Saturday November 7th until Sunday November 15th. Hope to see you lovelies soon.
Wishing you out there a fantastic weekend. Thank you for reading.
It is a beautiful sunny Autumn day here in Portland. I am still steaming away at our new pieces. Trying to stay by the front door to enjoy the sun as much as I can.
Just got done steaming this printed dress. The fabric was designed and made especially for idom. Romance in Durango, $396. Thank you for reading.
This dress has been really fun to design. I love the drape and its simplicity. Yet, it is quite flattering and very modern on the body. I need to give my friend Sally a ring soon. She wants one of these lovelies.
Thank you to Megan for being our beautiful model. This was definitely a delightful shoot. Thank you to our team Elizabeth, Marc, Nicole, Nick, Caitlin and our wonderful models for such a great day! I am thinking of sending Dylan some of these pics. After all the clothes were inspired by his amazing music.
My gorgeous friend Kerstin models the dress for us. She is an architect/model from Germany. Thank you, Kerstin!
As I Went Out One Morning Dress, $320.
We have been busy unpacking my father’s suitcases. Brand new beautiful pieces. I am heading to the shop to steam and price all the wonderful treasures. It has been such a treat to have both of my parents here. They saw our new shop for the first time and loved it. We spend our Halloween night with Brad putting up more shelves and dad planting some flowers outside. Mum and I cleaned and hung up more lovely scarves. We had a good time watching all the Halloween festivity passing by the front window.
Here is one of my favorite dress. Brad and I also adore this song from Dylan, “All the Tired Horses. “
If you have time come by and say hi. Salwa and I will be unpacking the goods. Enjoy your Monday everyone.
These tuxedo silk blazers are going fast! I was so excited that the first proud owner was a beautiful Sharon. The mother of our amazing buyer, Salwa. The jacket is now living in San Francisco. Thank you to Sharon and Salwa. Second owner is my friend Jessie. I forgot to take her photo. I will try to talk to Jessie into letting me post a pic of her soon. Jessie just moved to London on Wednesday. I am happy that the blazer found another lovely home in the UK. Of course yours truly kept one and my mother as well. There are not too many pieces left. Please come by and try these beauties on.
Salwa and I are starting to style more pieces for the blog with new items from our shop. You might get asked to be our models. 
We are hoping that it will give you some ideas of how one piece can be worn in many different ways and with various ensembles. It is also fun to boss people around and have them play dressed up with us. Boots of Spanish Leather Blazers $380 with draped white silk knit dress, $180. Thank you to Erin again for being our wonderful model. Please enjoy your weekend.
P.S. Happy Halloween!
I loved designing blazers for this season. I find that the jacket can be worn with so many looks. It will be perfect for this semi-fallish day. The red is nice amongst all the gray of pacific northwest. I am looking forward to be getting the jumpsuit for the shop as well. The rise is quite low and slouchy. I can’t wait to keep one for myself. They will be perfect worn underneath various items. My father is on his way from Bangkok tonight. His suitcases are filled with more treasures for the shop. I do have the best parents.
Please come by and try on some new blazers. They will bright up your life. Thanks Erin for modeling for us. We are trying to get our new pieces up online. My talented friend Caitlin finally got our site up and running again. You can check out new Autumn 09 pieces on our collection page here. Keep warm, everyone.
One of the best thing about having a shop beside doing what I love is to meet like minded people. Evangelina and Miles are one of the loveliest individuals that I ever met. They are sweet, kind, and so wonderful. I have been very lucky to have met so many amazing friends through the shop. Also, this season my mother got to be a part of all the shows. She has been my inspiration, my rock, and my biggest fan. Without her and my father, there won’t be IDOM. I count my blessings daily of how fortunate I am to be living this good life. There are always lots of struggles, but also lots of joy as well.
Miles, Evangelina, and my mother Chintana. Evangelina is wearing a Sea Urchin dress that was worn at her reception party for her wedding. My mother is wearing a Maura dress. They were cheering for me at Portland Fashion Week. I was so happy to see all the friendly faces there. And thank you to my sweet friends Caitlin and Salwa for making it all happened back stage. Stay dry today. It is gray and rainy in the P town. Ta, ta.
It has been a tough road having a shop in Portland. We are very lucky to have such devoted few customers that do live here in the city. Otherwise most of our customers come from Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Boston, Canada, Germany and France. We often hear comments that our clothes are too fancy and too fashion forward. The pieces would have no place to be worn here in Portland. People usually say that Portland is such a casual and an outdoor friendly city. Our idom clothes would be too nice to wear them out daily. I usually try to let them know that our clothes can be styled in many different ways. One can dress them down or dress them up. I have a hard time putting them into words of why I feel that it is important to be well dressed. I always feel so much better when I have a lovely outfit on. Plus I was taught to take pride with how I present myself to the world. It is not about expensive labels or the latest trend. it is about giving respect to yourself and your life. You do deserved to wear beautiful clothes everyday not for anyone, but yourself. Salwa sent me this post from the Sartorialist. He described perfectly of how I feel.
“One of my favorite encounters on this book tour was my driver in San Francisco.
As you can see he was very elegant and practically oozed self-confidence, dignity and pride in his work.
I love people who show pride in their work, regardless of the job.
This man’s car was spotless, his shoes were shined and he knew exactly where he was going. He wasn’t dressed like that for me, he had no idea who I was, this was just another day and just another ride done in his own stylish way.
I’ve said this so many times before, and recently in the intro of my book. Even though this blog is about fashion I don’t really think about fashion when I look at this photo. I think about how he is communicating his sense of pride and self-worth; not by how expensive his clothes are but by how he wears his clothes, his posture and his politeness. This man is pure style.” by the Sartorialist.
We adore Scott Schuman’s work and his down to earth fashion philosophy. Please check out his blog here. Thank you so much for reading, everyone!
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