2010 Portland Fashion Week Featured Solar Panel Runway

For this year’s Portland Fashion week, which concluded last Sunday, organizers decided to inject some megawatt personality into the runway for the five-day event.

One of the sponsors, photovoltaic panel-maker SolarWorld partnered with Seth Aaron Henderson, the Vancouver-based designer who won last season’s “Project Runway” to design the unique flooring. It was composed of the company’s new “black panels” — and Henderson even used the modules as inspiration for his “solar collection”.

“As far as I know, no one has designed a high-fashion runway collection based on solar,” he writes. “Those solar designs that have shown up in finished fashion have directly borrowed or even applied the technology. I’m interested in leading a high-fashion interpretation of this powerful source of future energy. I’m taking inspiration from the technology but not mimicking it.”

Check out some additional pictures from the event below.

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