Nordstrom Designer Preview 2012. Want to know what Nordstrom thinks you’ll be wearing this fall? Click through the trends we spotted at their Designer Preview runway show on July 12 at Pier 91.

Image: Chantal Andrea

Each year, Nordstrom brings a night’s worth of looks from the best fall collections and sends them down the runway to get Seattle style watchers revved up for the coming season.

The most recent iteration was Thursday, July 12; Pacific Standard magazine’s Emily Shepard Smith and photographer Chantal Andrea were there on our behalf, and filed this report.

Click through the slideshow to get the skinny on Nordstrom’s fall buy and the trends and beauty available therein.

(Feeling nostalgic? Here’s our report from Nordstrom Designer Preview 2011)