Simply paradise
Excellent small designers, world-class shops, a Spyplane Wonder of America and more in our Portland Recon finale
Welcome to Blackbird Spyplane
Our Home Goods Report, full of things to enliven the place you live, and stores where you can find them, is here.
Mach 3+ city intel for traveling the entire planet is here.
The B.L.I.S.S. List — a handy rundown of Beautiful Life-Improving Spyplane Staples, from incense to sweatpants to underwear — is here.
In Tuesday’s smash-hit sletter we wrote about eating mad good food and visiting the Portland studio of Nur Abbas, a gifted cult designer who’s worked with Lemaire, Margiela and Nike ACG — and who, at his own Gnuhr line, is currently making some of the most ingeniously designed post-GORP pieces out.
Nur is not alone among Mach 3+ slapper-crafters and slapper-slingers operating in city limits. In today’s Plane we close out our Portland intel spectacular with:
Studio visits with two more excellent small designers of national renown — designers whose unisex pieces any self-respecting cool-clothes appreciator should have on their radar. They gave us previews of fantastic pieces they’ve got in the pipeline, and they’re carried all over, no Portland residency required to coppeth…
3 world-class clothing shops whose webshops we’re extremely familiar with, but whose brick & mortar oases are a delight to hit up…
Other cool shops and galleries around town…
And a tribute to the Most Beautiful Place In The Entire City, a national treasure that we are officially naming a “Spyplane Wonder of America”:
