San Francisco Independent Fashion
The SF Indie Fashion Calendar is always full of events to keep San Francisco fashion lovers busy with trunk sales, beauty events, fashion shows and places to shop from independent sources. This week is no exception. Here’s our pick of top events this week: [Read more...]
There’s more than one enticing reason to shimmy over to The Lab tomorrow night for the annual Thread | Bare fashion show and live auction. Scantily clad models? Check. Locally-made, independent fashion? Done. A chance to support a creative arts organization while hot people take their clothes off? Totes magotes. Need we say more?
Each year, the event sends daring (not to mention charitably-minded) models in local designers’ garb down the runway. While the MCs of the night describe the clothes and cajole the crowd into parting with their hard-earned cash for a good cause, onlookers bid on garments that, in turn, come off on the stage and end up in the highest bidder’s hands. Really, for everyone, the situation is win-win. Except, perhaps, the models left standing there in pasties. But last year, they didn’t seem to mind.
Local literary diva Michelle Tea MCs this year, while an appearance by SF Boylesque promises added entertainment. Items up for auction hail from local labels such as Miss Velvet Cream, Mittenmaker, Stars + Ravens, Alexandria Von Bromssen, Medium Reality and others.
A portion of the proceeds from the evening and a follow-up trunk sale on Saturday benefit programs at The Lab.
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Savvy follower of local fashion and locally-made products that you are, you probably don’t need us to tell you that there are companies right here within San Francisco city limits producing everything from horizontal-wale corduroys to artisan chocolates and kombucha tea.
But what you may not have heard about yet is SFMade, a new non-profit organization whose entire mission is supporting and promoting the companies and manufacturers behind these products, as well as the much-needed jobs they create.
“Since opening our doors in January, companies have been coming to us in droves. They identify with being part of the SFMade community, and they are looking for very specific assistance and resources to help them run their manufacturing enterprises. We have really tapped into a need, and we’re the only organization focused entirely on supporting and building the manufacturing sector in San Francisco,” says SFMade Program Director Janet Lees, who founded the Fashion Industry Network program at San Francisco’s Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center.
On June 9, SFMade officially launches its presence in the City with Ramp It Up!, a fundraiser soiree honoring Anchor Brewing Company Chairman Emeritus Fritz Maytag at the SoMa headquarters of Ritual Coffee Roasters. With a host committee chaired by Mayor Gavin Newsom, the party promises an opportunity to meet and shop local purveyors from the fashion, food, eco and home interiors industries while mingling with some of the most influential folks in the City.
The evening offers further enticements for local style hounds in the form of exhibits from labels such as Rickshaw Bags, Cordarounds, Baby Leo Designs, Couture by Juliet and Slainte Bags, among others.
We dare say it’s a not-to-be-missed event for anyone who supports the locally-made movement in San Francisco.
SFMade Ramp It Up! Fundraiser and Launch Party, June 9 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Ritual Coffee Roasters, 1050 Howard St., SF. Tickets ($35).
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Our very-visual, (almost) chatter-free snap judgment of the day: the new Give Tool Frame Traveler, $360. Along with making stylish travel gear ready for those upcoming summer trips, this local company donates 10 percent of its annual net profits to charitable causes.
Want to peruse the collection in person? RSVP to rsvp (at) shopgive (dot) com by May 31 for next week’s Give Trunk Show at Two Skirts, when 20 percent of the evening’s proceeds will benefit the San Francisco Parks Trust.
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The best part about this upcoming San Francisco fashion show (besides, of course, local retailers showcasing their latest and greatest)? Dogs on the runway! We hear there will be some special four-legged models donning sweet collars and haute hoodies alongside the 30 or 35 looks culled from sources such as Dema, True, Loyal Army and The Mission Statement.
Proceeds benefit Rocket Dog, a local non-profit that does amazing work helping dogs-in-need find homes (including one of ours, where five-year-old Dixie has ruled the roost since being adopted from the organization as a puppy).
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