After extensive blog research from the Ryzenberg On investigative unit, (OK, me) there are many things that stylish gals covet that go beyond clothes, shoes and baubles. But let me make something clear, we can never have enough of the aforementioned items.
However, since Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, sometimes it’s the little things that make us smile and anything pretty will always wow us. We love good fresh smells, (perfumes, candles and flowers) anything sumptuous (warning: this one might follow a ‘do I look fat or have I gained weight’ ponder) and soft (puppies and kittens, please apply.)
So if you are looking to impress your girl of BFF, here are a few ideas that might make you one lucky dog, not just on Feb. 14 for year-round bliss. Oh yeah, and leave the lingerie for us to get, but if you really want a preview, make a date so that way Victoria doesn’t hold any secrets.
In the mood for Romance?
Annick Goutal Scents — www.bloomingdales.com
Christian Louboutin By Louboutin & Garcia — www.matchesfashion.com
Anything from The Kaiser and Chanel — www.chanel.com
Macarons — www.laduree.fr
NARS Red Matte Lipstick — www.sephora.com
Hydrangeas — www.hydrangeasflowers.com
Pretty Stationary — www.modcloth.com
Diptyque Candles Rose — www.diptyqueparis.com
French Bulldogs — www.dogexpertguides.com
Diamond and Pearl Earrings — www.forzieri.com
Set created on Polyvore
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[SAN FRANCISCO, CA] January 28, 2012 – San Francisco Fashion And Merchants Alliance, Inc. celebrates Fashion+TechSF‘s second year anniversary with a social networking and boutique shopping event open to the general public from 6:00pm to 10:00 pm on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at The Infinity Club Lounge, 333 Main Street, Level 3, San Francisco, CA 94105.
The celebration event will feature Geek Style Lounge and Fashion Bloggers Connect. Geek Style Lounge is a pop-up shopping event combining fashion, beauty, lifestyle and tech concepts in a social network setting. Attendees will be introduced to the newest mobile apps, enjoy product samples, beauty makeovers and shop from emerging local retailers. Bianca Starr will showcase a wardrobe styling presentation. Fashion Bloggers Connect is a popular workshop featuring influential bloggers Jes Ryzenberg of Ryzenberg On, Jennie Lodge of Going West, Zavan Quezada of Boyish.TV, Jacyn Sibert of Sugar Lips Lifestyle Tips and Mai Le of Fashioni.st who will share their blogging expertise and topics in today’s fashion. Tickets are available online at fashiontechsf2ndyearanniversary.eventbrite.com.
FASHION+TECHSF is the longest running monthly workshop and event series in the San Francisco Bay Area focused synergistically on building, promoting and educating the vibrant community of fashion and technology entrepreneurs, designers, developers, bloggers, business professionals, students, investors and numerous enthusiastic companies, schools, groups and individuals who share our vision of a world-class fashion and technology industry that is innovative, disruptive and uniquely San Francisco.
“The Fashion Mash-Up was our initial product presentation and we were very happy with the results. SFFAMA is one of the best resources for anyone in the Bay Area interested in networking with remarkable entrepreneurs in fashion and design. The community SFFAMA is creating in San Francisco is second-to-none, a truly diverse and positive group of fashion savvy doers. I’ve also garnered wonderful friendships and colleagues who continue to inform and inspire. Kudos to SFFAMA! Great Job, Fantastic Event.” MICHAEL LESNIAK, Founder, OMGiLUV.it
Demos by RAF9, Stylematic and ShopNear.me. Abrot Bags, Argoz, Boom Tho, GetWear, Malin Namita Couture, Rodan+Fields, SF Estillo, Solz Shoes and The Urban Class Boutique will market their latest retail products. Beauty makeover provided by The San Francisco Institute of Esthetics and Cosmetology, Inc. Gift raffle includes a getaway wine experience from Livermore Valley Wine Country, beauty products from Rodan+Fields and Atelier Emmanuel, and footwear from Solz Shoes. Sponsored products by SloDOWN Wines Inc., Dry Soda Company, Pretzel Crisps, My Pressi and Cheat-A-Little Catering. Our exclusive media sponsor is SFStation. Attendees include guests from these companies: Altimeter Group, Alteryx, Brisbane Creative Industries, Buy Ads, Getwear, Funders & Founders, Fuse Project , Hult International Business School, Key List, Mobileccino, Mode Walk, National Newpaper Publishers Association, Night-Ice, Premier Staffing, San Francisco Associates, SF Indie Fashion, Startup Monthly, Style Pal, Tech Mama, TedxBayArea, The Knot, Zero1 and more.
SFFAMA, INC., a California non-profit organization, is the go-to institution in the San Francisco Bay Area connecting the fashion and technology industries. Through our members and industry partnerships, including Fashion Startups, Fashion Bloggers Connect, Link2SF and our newest east coast satellite group Fashion+TechNY, we have a reach of over 5,000 fashion and technology professionals and enthusiasts and over 2,000 members on Facebook.
For media relations, publicity, product promotions, sponsorship opportunities, and booking info, please email Owen Geronimo at – contact@sffamainc.org
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The Workshop at Macy’s Overview. Macy’s is in the business of fashion and is committed to aggressively pursuing business opportunities with innovative multicultural – and women-owned retail vendors. This commitment not only serves as a way to cultivate new talent, but as a way to contribute to the fostering of business development in the ever-expanding communities we serve. The Workshop is a comprehensive retail vendor development program designed to give select high potential multicultural and/or women business owners the tools to better succeed and sustain growth in the retail industry. READ PROGRAM OVERVIEW /APPLY.
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[ THANK YOU to KAREN SONG and the Stylematic Team, Yuan Zhang of ShopNear.me, NICK FROST of Angel Hack and FIDMSF. Photos By: SHAUN TIANGSING ]
FASHION+TECHSF (formerly FashionMashup) is the longest running monthly workshop and event series in the San Francisco Bay Area focused synergistically on building, promoting and educating the vibrant community of fashion and technology entrepreneurs, designers, developers, bloggers, business professionals, students, investors and numerous enthusiastic companies, schools, groups and individuals who share our vision of a world-class fashion and technology industry that is innovative, disruptive and uniquely San Francisco.
Our mission is to create educational, social and business opportunities for the fashion and technology industries. In the past two years, FASHION+TECHSF has become the leading network for all things fashion and technology in the SF Bay Area.
SHAUN TIANGSING is a very disciplined up-and-coming photographer that works with SFFAMA at many events like San Francisco Fashion Week. He was nominated for Best Photographer at San Francisco Fashion Awards 2011. His work has been published in SF Chronicles’s Style section. A self-proclaimed introvert with a bad memory, Shaun uses photography as a tool to document or remember things. His poignant relationship with the camera makes him an outstanding photographer with the appreciation of the craft as an art form.
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[ Photos By: SHAUN TIANGSING ]
This year’s “PRÊT-À-PORTER SF” 2011, with mass market in mind, was an amalgamation of global fashion, technology and sophistication. Designers hailed from Ireland, The Middle East, South Africa, Thailand, China, Russia and the United States, which was a genuine representation of today’s global fashion. Sustainable fashion and technology were also an apparent theme, with Carol Wang’s presentation of bamboo fabrics, Sonas Denim’s literal take on recycling of denims and the stylish integration of advanced materials and design with personal media technology by Alphyn Industries. Anya Tatarenko, Kajan Padraig and LHC Couture with WorkPlayDate and Sasha Maksutenko jewelries, brought clean sophistication to the runway with beautifully fitted and elegant women’s ready to wear. Frankees Samad debuted her design with her personal modernizations of the Islamic dress.
SFFAMA’s founder, Owen Geronimo, feels that San Francisco is now ready for a worldwide audience. “PRÊT-À-PORTER SF” 2011 is one of the many successful fashion events along, with Project San Francisco, The Beauty Expo, Fashion Feud, Fashion Mash-Up Workshops and San Francisco Fashion Week ™, that SFFAMA has brought to fruition, which are all labors of love with strong community support. One of SFFAMA’s main goals is to establish San Francisco as a global fashion destination and as a catalyst of fashion and technology convergence. SFFAMA strongly believes in social good “to utilize fashion-to apply-to make impact” in our ongoing philanthropic efforts and mentorship program with our ‘Fashion4Good’ project.
SFFAMA would like to THANK the following: Our committee hosts Charleston Pierce, Karri Ann Frerichs of Altitude Promotions, Jessica Schoefer of Fashion Network Association, Dino Ynostroza and Oliver Lorenz of Fordie Dinosaurs, Charmaine Adrina, Robert Nixon of SFFAMA and Kirill Elistratov. Our beauty team of Tanera Daye, Atelier Emanuele and San Francisco Institute of Aesthetics and Cosmetology. Our wonderful sponsors: Luv.it Mobile App, Los Osuna Tequila, Trumer Pils, ModeWalk, Fashion Network Association, Cheat-A-Little Catering, Aveda,Jaya Production and SFStation. Our media and industry supporters: Shaun Tiansing, Lorraine Sanders of SF Indie Fashion and The SF Chronicle, Michael Lesniak of Luv.it, Lexter Marcus Tamse of The Guy in The Mission, Roddy Calonsag of SFFashion.tv, Del Geronimo of Bleed Magazine, Elissa Badique of Reject Superstar, Ron Fulcher of Swagga Digital, Peter Imai of Kim Brushes, Geneive Jaramilla of Step Hevvy, Katie Lopez of SFStation, Nathan Mitchell of Santana Row, Jake Gassaway of Stitch Labs, Katrina Lake of Rack Habit, and Prosenjit Sen of Vizl. And last but not least, THANK YOU to all the beautiful models and the hard-working production crew. We love you all, thank you for being part of the SFFAMA family!
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Ready to make your dreams a reality?
Do you have an entrepreneurial dream in either the food, fashion or home field? This spring, Macy’s is once again teaming up with America’s favorite lifestyle guru, Clinton Kelly, to help bring your dreams to life with the ultimate life-changing prize-one million dollars.
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[ Marianna by: DEL GERONIMO ]
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[SAN FRANCISCO, CA] - January 15, 2012 – San Francisco Fashion And Merchants Alliance, Inc. and FASHION+TECHSF will host a workshop: Applying Mobile Tech Strategies for your Fashion Business from 5:30pm to 8:30pm on Thursday, January 19, 2012 at FIDM - Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, 55 Stockton Street, 5th Floor, Conference Room, San Francisco, CA 94108.
A practical approach to implementing mobile technology strategies for your fashion business.
Implementing mobile technology in today’s digital age is essential for businesses of all sizes. This 3-hour fashion/tech workshop and social mixer is for anyone interested in creating or applying mobile apps and wants to know what steps to take in order to get it off the ground and how to do integrated marketing. This workshop is a great opportunity for emerging designers, small business owners, app developers, startup companies, students and fashion entrepreneurs to learn about mobile app technologies and meet potential business contacts in the fashion and tech industries.
“I had a great time talking all things e-commerce with Owen Geronimo, Brad Carrick, and the rest of the Fashion+TechSF speakers. Thanks Owen for putting together a strong panel. SFFAMA looks as strong as ever… I’m looking forward to more events! , said Peter Imai, founder of Kim Brushes.
Stylematic, ShopNear.me, Manpacks are just a few of the companies who will participate in the panel. Tickets are $10 and available at http://fashiontechsf01192012.eventbrite.com or at the door.
FASHION+TECHSF (formerly FashionMashup) is the longest running monthly workshop and event series in the San Francisco Bay Area focused synergistically on building, promoting and educating the vibrant community of fashion and technology entrepreneurs, designers, developers, bloggers, business professionals, students, investors and numerous enthusiastic companies, schools, groups and individuals who share our vision of a world-class fashion and technology industry that is innovative, disruptive and uniquely San Francisco.
SFFAMA, INC., a California non-profit organization, is the leading institution in the San Francisco Bay Area fashion and technology industry. Through our members and industry partnerships, including Fashion Startups, Fashion Bloggers Connect, Link2SF, FASHION+TECHSF and FASHION+TECHNY, we have a reach of over 5,000 fashion and technology professionals and enthusiasts.
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[ PHOTOS: Fashion Gone Rogue ]
This Vogue Brazil December 2011 fashion spread featuring supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio and Brazilian heartthrob Rodrigo Santoro (you might recognize him as the ‘enigmatic’ designer from Love Actually) is certainly sizzling.
Shot in the Big Apple by Eric Guillemain, this romantic feature has the beautiful power couple (sadly, not in real life, but don’t they make a great pair?) donning YSL, Dolce & Gabbana and Louis Vuitton.
It is magazine covers and stories like this that affirm me how Brazilians have special powers that seriously produce some of the most beautiful people in the world. Does their water have anything special? Or perhaps, the caipirinha is the catch!
Ryzenberg On, is Signing Off
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The brand known as Liz Claiborne founded in 1976 has been around in the fashion and retail industry for 36 years. After selling it’s clothing label to JC Penney with the shutdown of their brand in October, the company has now changed it’s name to Fifth & Pacific Cos. Inc. to differentiate from the brand. The new name will be effective as of May.
Fifth & Pacific includes Juicy Couture, Kate Spade and Lucky Brand.
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H&M DESIGN AWARD 2012. This new prize brings together graduates from major design colleges around Europe to encourage their future fashion careers, as well as to inspire the upcoming generations of designers.
Graduates from fourteen colleges in six countries will compete for the prize, with the winning collection being shown at Stockholm’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on February 1st 2012, along with a prize of €50,000. From January 13th, everyone with an interest in fashion can follow the awards process online through a series of films at designaward2012.hm.com. It will feature behind the scenes footage of the colleges and portraits of the designers, as well as the jury sessions and live streaming of the winner’s show on February 1st.
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Awards season is in full force and everyone donned their Sunday best at theGolden Globes. ‘The Artist,’ ‘The Descendants,’ ‘Modern Family’ and ‘Homeland were the night’s big winners, and all of Hollywood’s gliterati sure shined.
Champaign colored dresses and classic tuxes dominated the red carpet, as some stars who opted to make a splash with a pop of color. Black is always a popular choice, always managing to make a cameo at all the right times!
Here are my top eight of the night:
Salma Hayek in Gucci S/S 2012 — Straight from the runway, Frida (Giannini, not Kahlo) is definitely smiling) I love sequins and this feistly Mexican (and dream of most pre-pubescent boys) knows how to show off her best assets.
Angelina Jolie in Versace Atelier — The epitome of Hollywood glam and color blocking. My birthday twin (yup, we are both June 4) rocked this ensemble by combining her red lipstick with the dress’ collar. This, ladies and gentleman, is how the trend gets done!
Reese Witherspoon in Zac Posen — She looks like a ‘Red Hot Momma’ in this mermaid gown, which is a hit. I guess the only think I would have tweaked on this look is the hair, as it would have been great to see it parted to the side and straight. The beachy locks somewhat make it look a bit too casual.
Emma Stone in Lanvin — So stunning and love the color contrast with her hair and smoky eyes.
Jessica Beil in Elie Saab — The hair color is great and the taffeta looks fantastic. Her fit physique really makes her look like a knock out in a long sleeve gown.
Jessica Alba in Gucci — Very elegant and classic. This mom of 2 sure knows how the steal the spotlight. I really hope when I have rugrats to look like this in just a matter of months)
Sofia Vergara in Vera Wang — OK, I am biased, but this Latina always nails it! Va Va Vooom in all the right places, as she knows how to accentuate those curvas! I also love the hair parted to the side and the Harry Winston baubles.
Charlize Theron in Dior — This South African stunner always takes risks at red carpets. She’s been wearing ruffles and bows for a few seasons now, but really like the train on this gown. The whole looks works well with her svelte legs and kept her makeup to a minimum. J’ adore.
Ryzenberg On, is Signing Off. PHOTOS: Getty
Jesica Ryzenberg is the newest contributing writer for SFFAMA. She is the voice behind the fashion blog “Ryzenberg On”. Jesica is a feisty fashionista hailing from Peru with an affinity for all Bravo TV programming. If you desire the unpredictable and love a hint of spice, then she’s your girl! Her heart is currently in San Francisco, but her soul floats around the globe.
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[ Guest Host: Stephanie Williams, Video By: LoTech Studios ]
[ Photos By: SHAUN TIANGSING. Creative Director & PR/ Marketing: OWEN GERONIMO ]
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[ Photos By: CHARMAINE ADRINA ]
[Fashion Bloggers and Styling Contestants: JACYN SIEBERT @ Sugarlips Life Style Tips (Winner), ADELLE McELVEEN @ Fashionista Lab, LILY KO @ Curated SF, JULIE CHIEM @ She Wears, She Shares and ANDREA SCHULTZ IGREJA.
[ SFFashion.TV Field Producer: Roddy Calonsag ]
[ Photos By: DOUG BIRNBAUM ] Designers: Sally Marie Hahn, Krisztina Lazar, Crystal Hermann (Winner) Judges: Joseph Domingo, Zoe Hong, and John Robblee, Models: Faith, Shelby, Monica. Creative Director: OWEN GERONIMO
[ SFFashion.TV Field Producer: Roddy Calonsag ]






[ Photos: Mark Thompkins. Designers: Alley Collection, Anya Tatarenko, Sincerely Varunee, Ms. Belleza, Styling by: SFIEC, Runway Production by: SFFAMA, Creative Director/ Runway: Owen Geronimo ]


















[ Photos By: CHRISTOPHE TOMATIS ] Designers: Sally Marie Hahn (Winner) and Lori Dawn. Judges: Zoe Brock and Lauren Crafford. Models: Arielle and Stephanie. Creative Director: OWEN GERONIMO

[ Photos By: DEL GERONIMO ] Designs by: ZOE HONG, REVELATION BY ME, NNEKA, KARINA CASTREJON, ELIZABETH KAY, BRIGHT LIGHT DESIGNS, MS. BELLEZA, Creative Director/PR: Owen Geronimo ]
[ Video by: RODDY CALONSAG, SFFashion.TV Field Producer ]
















[ Photos By: STEVE HAN ] Designers: Krisztina Lazar (Winner) and Chrystine Druge. Judges: Laura Robblee @ Alley Collection and Adelle McElveen @ Fashionista Lab. Models: Caitlyn and Nicole. Creative Director: Owen Geronimo