[ Photos by: Christopher C., Nina Regina, Lisa O., Michelle Managhan, Steve R., Steve Thurston, Tom Hwang, Designers: Audrey Szeto, Amanda Chan, Jennifer Schmidt, Mariya, Milovidova. Runway Producer: Owen Geronimo]
Friday Nights at the de Young, after-hours art “happenings” that include a mix of live music, dance performances, film screenings, panel discussions, lectures, artist demonstrations, special performances, hands-on art activities and exhibition tours.
Each evening has a unique theme and ties in with the special exhibitions and permanent collections at the de Young. Local artists conduct drop-in workshops, debut new commissions, display their art in the Kimball Education Gallery, and take part in artist/curator conversations about the creative process.
About the event: Guest wardrobe and beauty stylists will discuss fundamentals and showcase their talent during a live beauty and wardrobe interactive styling demo and workshop featuring the new collections from various retail and fashion designers. This is a fun and informative fashion networking event with tips and trends from the experts. Come shop, sip some wine and join SFFAMA at various pop-up stores and retail stores. Meet new faces, upcoming models, stylists, bloggers, and fashion professionals. Like Us HERE.
Galileo Learning is now hiring Lead Instructors at 30+ sites throughout the Bay Area!
Spend this summer doing what you love while teaching and inspiring others. Galileo Learning is looking for artists and educators to teach art and design curricula this summer, including: Fashion Design, San Francisco Art, Renaissance Art, Greek Art, Painters Studio, Cartoon Workshop, Digital Photography, Digital Filmmaking and more!
Lead Instructors are pivotal to the summer experience of Galileo campers, providing instruction and inspiration, fostering the type of learning environment which allows kids to explore and develop vision, courage, collaboration, determination, and reflection. We provide an outstanding curriculum and all materials, giving you the freedom to tailor your classroom’s look and feel, and to focus on bringing learning to life!
Lead Instructor positions fill quickly on a rolling basis. Apply or learn more today at www.galileo-learning.com!
$475-675 per week (Monday-Friday) depending on subject and experience
31 locations throughout all regions of the Bay Area
6-9 week commitment, depending on location (day camp program, housing not provided)
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Fashion publication applauds luxury handbag as ‘somewhere between an oversize cigarette case and an exquisite work of art’
SAN FRANCISCO, March 20, 2012 – Luxury fashion brand Jill Milan, a provider of designer handbags made in Italy, announced its Art Deco Clutch was named to W magazine’s “Most Wanted” feature in the publication’s April 2012 issue, available on newsstands this week. The monthly feature compiles fashion and lifestyle products nominated by the publication’s editorial staff.
“The W team is exceptionally discerning in the brands and products it names to the monthly ‘Most Wanted’ feature, and for them to recognize our Art Deco Clutch is beyond gratifying,” said Jill Fraser, chief executive officer of Jill Milan. “We are delighted to be among such prestigious company.” Other brands included in the April feature include Cartier, Chanel, Givenchy and Yves Saint Laurent.
“Who needs jewelry when you’re carrying a Jill Milan Art Deco clutch?” reads W magazine’s commentary on the luxury handbag. “Made entirely by hand in Florence by one of Europe’s most prestigious jewelers, it’s somewhere between an oversize cigarette case and an exquisite work of art – and there are currently only 20 of them in the world.” The Art Deco Clutch was nominated by W Assistant Managing Editor Roseann Marulli Rodriguez.
The Art Deco Clutch is made of Italian stainless steel and is available in silver or gold. The interior is fully lined and the logo at the top of the clutch functions as the bag’s closure.
W is a monthly fashion magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. It was created in 1971 and has a reader base of nearly half a million.
About Jill Milan
Jill Milan delivers luxury fashion and lifestyle products. Made of exquisite materials, they are crafted in Italy by artisans who have created handbags and accessories for some of Europe’s best known fashion houses. Jill Milan is committed to cruelty-free design and manufacturing, all Jill Milan products are free of animal-derived material and the company contributes a portion of proceeds to animal-welfare organizations. Visit Jill Milan on the Web at www.JillMilan.com and follow Jill Milan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/JillMilanHandbags.
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Jill Milan and the Jill Milan logo are trademarks of Jill Milan LLC, and are protected by trademark laws of the United States and other countries. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Contact: Jill Milan Press Office. (650) 654-7381, ext. 2. press@JillMilan.com
The menswear industry is in the midst of a seismic shift, with brands and retailers feeling the effects in equal measure. As looks become more refined, brands—including iconic industry giants—are rethinking offerings to respond to consumers’ changing tastes. Private labels wield more influence, and new opportunities abound in the American luxury market. Mission critical for retailers is reconsidering the traditional sales model—including the restructuring of the legendary sales floor and the development of marketing that addresses new, omni-channel selling.
Do you want your brand to simply keep up—or are you looking to lead? Featuring insight from and about trailblazing people, products, brands, and strategies, the Fairchild Fashion Media Men’s Wear Summit offers tools for succeeding—and leading—in a shifting market.
Location: California Market Center (The CMC), 9th & Main | Downtown LA Fashion District, [map & directions]
The Los Angeles International Textile Show (L.A. Textile) is the fashion industry’s West Coast destination for premier textile, design & production resources. Offering hundreds of fabric collections and design services from around the globe, the caliber of resources and fashion direction is presented with our Contemporary designer audience in mind. Our trend forum, curated by trend partner WGSN, and complimentary seminar program are designed to inform and
After the long winter months on the East Coast Aether Apparel is excited to finally be getting back to some Californian weather – albeit the notoriously unpredictable Bay Area. Their new home for the next eight weeks will be in Hayes Valley at the outdoor retail space called the Proxy. Unlike the austere conditions they had in NYC, they now have a 120V wall power, WiFi, and access to a double-decker storage unit. They’re really puttin’ on the Ritz! And they’re in good company too with Smitten Ice Cream, Ritual Coffee Roasters, Biergarten, andMuseum Craft Design.
Location: SAN FRANCISCO (PROXYIN HAYES VALLEY) 432 OCTAVIA STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94102
Aether strives to be a pure expression of form and function. By utilizing technologically advanced fabrics in a more sophisticated form, their collection offers sportswear for the outdoor enthusiast who wants function without sacrificing modern design and aesthetics.
and SeeZenn for sponsoring this event! (w/Chloe, Karla, Rachel, Kaila and Anna) [ All Photos by: Shaun Tiangsing ]
About the event: Guest wardrobe and beauty stylists will discuss fundamentals and showcase their talent during a live beauty and wardrobe interactive styling demo and workshop featuring the new collections from various retail and fashion designers. This is a fun and informative fashion networking event with tips and trends from the experts. Come shop, sip some wine and join SFFAMA at various pop-up stores and retail stores. Meet new faces, upcoming models, stylists, bloggers, and fashion professionals. Like Us HERE.
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.
[San Francisco, CA, March 2012] In the beginning of March 2012, San Francisco shoe brand—deeFind— launched a campaign to raise funds intended for the manufacturing costs of their Spring/Summer 2012 line. After receiving the first order of their merchandise and discovering changes with both the manufacturing and their manufacturer, deeFind reinvented this season’s line and is now marketing toward a more focused, small run of concept shoes, available only at special trunk shows, by-appointment-only sessions and private wholesale events. The funding will now be allocated to deeFind’s Spring/Summer 2013 collection which is set to begin production sometime in November of this year.
Since the brand’s launch back in June 2011, the brand has blazed through the local San Francisco fashion scene causing boutiques owners, fashion bloggers, and devout followers to rubber neck over Dierdre Wallace’s ultrafeminine, infectiously-fierce shoe designs. In more recent news, deeFind was a featured designer in one of this year’s most important industry events in music, interactive technology, film and now fashion at South by Southwest’s (SXSW) fashion showcase Style X, where Wallace’s shoes blew off the shelves. This head nod to the brand’s bold style triggered an immediate head nod to deeFind’s hard work and high-toned designs, causing fashion bloggers, photographers, customers and buyers to swarm the booth for two days. Given that deeFind is such a young company, being recognized with as much buzz as they’ve received is both an immense honor for Dierdre Wallace and Creative Director Melina Jones, and a thrilling harbinger of things to come. With inventory still stocked from last season, the Fall / Winter collection is currently available on deeFind’s online store as well as Bay Area boutiques, such as The Hub in Marin County and San Francisco clothing gems Wonderland and Artillery.
More information about deeFind: http://deefind.com
ABOUT INDIEGOGO
“When our founders joined forces in 2007, they had diverse backgrounds and varied interests. However, they had one important thing in common: Danae, Eric and Slava each tried to raise money for something they were passionate about, but they came up short. They had great ideas, the passion to work hard, and good networks, yet access to funding through traditional channels proved limited. The trio was determined to find a solution to the problem. Indiegogo was born; the crowdfunding solution that empowers ideas and enables people to donate funds easily.”
—indiegogo.com
ABOUT STYLE X
“What is Style X? It is the official fashion discovery showcase of South by Southwest. It’s a celebration of up-and-coming brands and designers from around the world (50 pop-up shops) along with an inside look at the fashion industry from thought leaders (eight panels) and some pretty spectacular runway shows featuring SXSW musicians as the models.”
—Joah Spearman Co-Founder & Executive Producer, Style X
More information about Style X: http://sxsw.com/trade_shows/style_x
PRESS CONTACT Melina Jones | Creative Director | mjones@deefind.com | (415) 235.6505
FASHION+TECHSF Presents FASHION STARTUPS: Product Presentations & Networking. Promote. Pitch. Connect. We connectfashion startups, app developers and retail entrepreneurs to human and capital resources.Find out what all the buzz is about in fashion and technology! Come learn about innovative new products and business models and the people behind them to accelerate your networking and business opportunities. Present and promote your product. Get feedback. Get users. Get a fanbase. Get connected to an enthusiastic community of fashion professionals, entrepreneurs and resources.
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+TECHSFhas 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.
Who is YOUR local green hero? Who do you admire for creating a healthier environment and protecting the planet? Who is working to fight climate change at the local level in your neighborhood? Who is making a difference by taking action to protect our environment in your community? Who is helping improve lives of low-income families or empowering women and girls? Nominate someone who is greening your corner of the world – it could be a neighbor, classmate, co-worker, friend, or family member who is taking initiative and greening the community – by taking on the role of citizen entrepreneur. Maybe YOU are a local green hero.
Friends of Global Green are helping to spread the word about the call for local green heroes to enter Global Green’s Citizen Entrepreneur Contest: http://globalgreen.org/citizenentrepreneur
Heartfelt thanks go out to the Global Green supporters who participated: Emmy Rossum, Dylan McDermott, Michelle Branch, Sophia Bush, Walton Goggins, Peter Mensah, and Maggie Grace, as well as Paul Emami at Storytellerz for directing the video (and his team for their work behind the scenes).
A billion people currently lack access to clean drinking water. Levi Strauss & Co. and Water.org are committed to changing this. Starting March 22nd, Levi’s and Water.org will Go WaterLess. You too can join the partnership by visiting http://www.levi.com/waterless and taking the Go WaterLess challenge or learning more at http://www.water.org.
Levi Strauss & Co. believes that water is a precious resource and everyone should do their part to lead a more WaterLess lifestyle. Find out more about our waterless jeans and Go WaterLess at www.levi.com/waterless
Gorilla Workshop launches “Gorilla Kick-Off Set,” the first 6 shirts to be made through a partnership with San Francisco Fashion And Merchants Alliance, Inc. (SFFAMA) and crowd funding site IndieGOGO. Design, Inspire, Create – Gorilla Workshop
San Francisco, CA. March 2012 – Gorilla Workshophttp://www.gorillaworkshop.com announces the pre-launch of their first shirt designs to be put into production. Gorilla Workshop is a collaborative collective of artists, designers and illustrators intent on creating great and unique apparel. Check out the first 6 designs that have been chosen.
SFFAMA http://www.sffamainc.org, the largest and most innovative fashion organization in Northern California, has partnered with IndieGOGOhttp://www.indiegogo.com, the world’s largest global funding platform. This partnership enables anyone with a fashion-related project to raise the funding necessary to make their dreams become reality. “Gorilla Workshop” will be one of the inaugural campaigns featured on the dedicated SFFAMA page on IndieGOGO.
Jonathan Niemuth, founder of Gorilla Workshop, explains “Gorilla Workshopwas created so other artists and designers could create and be recognized for their work knowing that their designs will be produced as the highest quality product possible.”
Gorilla Workshop, a San Francisco apparel collective founded in 2011, is intent on providing unique urban apparel while giving great artists the ability to showcase their talent and earn from their designs. Not only are we promoting the individual, but we are also using local businesses in any way we can. Our shirt manufacturers are in Los Angeles, our screen printers and cut & sew teams are in San Francisco and Oakland. Not only do we want to stimulate creativity, but we also want to stimulate the local economy. Design, Inspire, Create –Gorilla Workshop
Jonathan Niemuth (Founder). Jonathan Niemuth is a local San Francisco creative and entrepreneur. After graduating art school in industrial design, he immediately jumped into the construction business, but never lost his passion for design and apparel. In 2005, he made his first line of men’s jackets, successfully sourcing the fabric he wanted and finding local cut & sew shops to make his prototypes. His entrepreneurial spirit and passion for high-quality apparel lead him to collaborate with like-minded creatives and start Gorilla Workshop.
About Mission Workshop. The Mission is where we design, develop, and work in San Francisco. Our workshop was created out of the need for gear that out-performs, while maintaining a clean aesthetic appropriate for cycling, travel, and the daily routine. Pulling from years of experience, Mission Workshop creates bags that can handle a lifetime of abuse and apparel that can withstand the worst weather. Arkiv® System bags by Mission Workshop debut Spring 2012. Shot in Berlin by: Lukas Panek - urbanpanic.de, Leon Giogoli, Evan Dudley
If there is a shoe party, you know I am there! And if there is only ONE foot fete one should not miss is the 20th anniversary of Christian Louboutin’s iconic red soles.
I, along with some of San Francisco’s most fashionable ladies, attended this invite-only preview of his legendary works of art at Neiman Marcus! (yes, to me, footwear is like art, and it this line actually made it on SFgate.com)
The event featured light bites, bubbly and lots of drool worthy sandals, boots, booties, flats and heels. This capsule collection, which is only available at Neiman Marcus on Union Square in the Bay Area and select stores worldwide, features some Louboutin’s most iconic shoes such as the ‘plumette,’ with actual feathers, the ‘Love’ flats (which are his favorite all-time) and of course the fringe boots that pay homage to only leggy gal, Ms. Tina Turner, among other eye catching masterpieces.
It is amazing Christian Louboutin has only been around for 20 years. Through the years, this footwear maestro managed to give us some of the most innovative footwear we can remember. (oh yeah, not to mention the red soles, despite some legal run-ins)
When a woman walks, there is nothing sexier than seeing a classic pair of patent leather pumps (of course I am referring to the Rolando) with that little peek-a-boo of red in the bottom. It’s almost as if they transport you to the 1950s or 1960s when women’s fashions were ladylike, demure and offered a bit of a je ne sais quo feel!
We all admired the shoes and dreamt what it’d be like to actually own a piece of footwear history, until looking at the price tag and realizing that we had to pay rent the next week.
A girl can dream or in this case many girls are probably dreaming!
Jesica Ryzenberg is a 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.
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, Solz Shoes and SF Indie Fashion. 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. He has also shot for talkTECH Communications, a business and technology communications firm focused on interactive marketing and public relations.
Join an evening seminar and panel of esteemed writers to discuss the craft of fashion writing and the nuts and bolts of getting your work published.
In addition to reflecting on the writing process, the panelists will address issues related to the publishing aspects of writing, both in print and electronically. Each panelist comes to 826 with a unique experience and fascinating approach to fashion writing. Our panel will include Lauren Goodman (Vogue, Fashion Director of Domino), Gina Pell (Splendora.com and Joyus.com), Lorraine Sanders (SfIndieFashion.com, SF Chronicle), Laura Vrcek (ModCloth.com), and Katie Hintz-Zambrano (Refinery29.com)! This workshop is very much a hands-on affair. No details will be spared; all pertinent secrets will be revealed.
The cost of the seminar is $50 for general admission and $35 for students and 826 Valencia volunteers. Buy tickets. For more information, please contact Yalie Kamara, 415-642-5905 ext.204.
Sunday, March 25, 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, at 826 Valencia, SF. All proceeds directly benefit free student writing programs at 826 Valencia.
Celebrity stylist June Ambrose talks about her new VH1 show “Styled By June." She also discusses her new eyewear collection and teases her upcoming clothing line. This is part 2 of our 3-part "Media Beat” interview with June.
Photos at Styled By June Premiere Party [ Source: VH1 ]
