Popina Swimwear will be opening their second location in Portland’s Downtown Pearl District in November 2010!  Once open, the Popina Pearl store will be the largest women’s swimwear store in the Northwest.  The Pearl store will have a similar feel to the Northeast Portland store, but will be brought up a notch with all that owner/designer Pamela Levenson has learned in the past five years.  The goal with the Pearl store is to create a world class swimwear store where women have fun shopping for bathing suits.  Come in for a visit to compare the two shops and look for First Thursday Travel events with expert guest speakers!

There will be a huge grand opening party set for First Thursday 11/4 (from 6-9pm) - it will be a blow out!  Beverages will be provided by New Deal Vodka, Kona Brewing and Hip Chicks do Wine.  Cupcakes Jones will be providing….Cupcakes.  Studio Luxe in the Pearl will be providing free nail changes and cosmetic consultations.  Plus there will be a fashion show produced by Frayn Masters of Back Fence PDX!  Thank you for helping us grow, please come help us kick off Popina Pearl in style we want to party with you!

Here is our list of models:

1. Alison Hallett, Arts & Web Editor for The Portland Mercury
2. Marjorie Skinner, Portland Mercury Managing Editor
3. Viva Las Vegas, Writer, Singer, Famous PDX Stripper
4. Monica Drake, Wrote the amazing novel, Clown Girl (Hawthorne Books)
5. Nora Robertson, Host of New Oregon Interview Series
6. Joan Hiller Depper, Owner of Riot Act Media
7. Sadie Medley, Actress, voice over artist, and designer
8. Michelle Erickson, Copywriter and awesome gal
9. Annie Wilkins, Writer
10. Nathalie Weinstein, Back Fence PDX assistant
11. Pat Janowski, Siren of Sound for Live Wire! Radio
12. Sarah Hoopes, Posts her teenage diary entries from 15 years ago
13. Anne Adams, Culterphile writer at Portland Monthly
14. Haley Talbot, Actres, Performed with the oregon Ballet Theatre

Plus the cherry on the sundae is that Alaska Airlines, in celebration of Popina Pearl opening in November, has offered two round trip tickets to Hawaii as the Club Maillot prize (Popina’s VIP Club).