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Runway to Runway: Flight Attendant Fashions Expose Civil Rights Flashpoints
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Runway to Runway: Flight Attendant Fashions Expose Civil Rights Flashpoints

Walking into the Museum of Flight to view Runway to Runway, I never expected to leave with such a profound sense of connection to the history of civil rights in the United States. Having studied and worked in fashion for many years, I was familiar with some of the design collaborations behind the uniforms—like Braniff Airways and Emilio Pucci—but less familiar with the stories that give them layered meaning. What I discovered was how the flight attendants and their uniforms are intricately woven into the fight for gender, labor, and racial equality.

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Evergreen Style: Rossario George at Queer NW’s PRIMAVERA
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Evergreen Style: Rossario George at Queer NW’s PRIMAVERA

Before the show, I sat down with one of the featured designers, Tony Vicente, to hear his perspective. Eight years after founding the award-winning luxury label Rossario George, Tony was preparing to debut a new haute couture collection, La Maison de Rossario George. His work has earned recognition for designs that blend timeless elegance with bold storytelling while celebrating individuality through artistry. Our conversation explored the role fashion plays in fostering self-expression, visibility, and community during Pride Month, and why those values hold true long after June.

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Evergreen Style: Prairie Underground
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Evergreen Style: Prairie Underground

While Earth Month has been celebrated worldwide in April for more than 50 years, the fashion industry’s responsibility to the planet extends far beyond a single month. At Prairie Underground, a fashion label designed and manufactured in Seattle for over 20 years, sustainability is not a momentary focus but an everyday practice. Camilla Eckersley, one of its co-founders, is committed to creating an industry that is fair, fun, and environmentally responsible.

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Evergreen Style: Seattle Fat Mall
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Evergreen Style: Seattle Fat Mall

One of the greatest joys about fashion is finding the perfect fit. Yet for fat or plus-size shoppers, that joy is rare, often overshadowed by an exhausting search for options that barely exist.
Earlier this year, in partnership with Seattle Restored, the Seattle Fall Mall emerged as a pop-up community space in Downtown Seattle where being fat or plus-size was centered and celebrated.
For eight months, the founders—Amber and Alyss Seelig, Candace Frank, and Kwame Phillips-Solomon—brought together local artists and fashion designers who challenge industry norms through body positivity and collective liberation.

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