Localize It: Vintage Map Pendants

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To announce her Wanderlust Collection of vintage map pendant necklaces, San Francisco jewelry designer and Saints & Sinners founder Barbe Saint John asks the question, where would you rather be today?

It’s no secret that we’d pretty much always rather be in San Francisco. Hence our love for the San Francisco Vintage Map Pendant shown here. Available on an 18″ chain, the pendant is etched with an image from a vintage map of the City by the Bay and punctuated with map paper under resin to form the central detail.

If you’re looking to soothe your wanderlust with another city, never fear. There are pendants showcasing places around the globe, from Moscow to Tokyo, Paris to Albuquerque.

Looking for more fresh designs from Bay Area labels? You’ll find them in SF Indie Fashion’s local designers section….

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We Got Carded: Fashion Slave Local Shoppers Club

Being over we’re-not-tellin’-how-old, getting carded is something we relish almost as much as Audrina Patridge pretends to be enjoying that ridiculous Carl’s Jr. burger she’s mowwing in her latest (only?) commercial (seriously, you know the girl is not actually eating those things).

Another kind of getting carded we’ve been thrilled with lately? Our new Fashion Slave Local Shoppers Club card, pictured above in all its glory.

The card is the latest effort from Fashion Slave, whose founder and overall diva Kim C. ushers out-of-towners on neighborhood and underground tours of San Francisco’s best independent boutiques and local designers’ studios. After spending two years building a business that caters to San Francisco visitors, she’s got something up her sleeve for us local gals.

Purchase a card ($20 for the rest of ‘09, but we hear the price will increase next year), and you’ll receive 10 percent off at any participating merchant, as well as discounts on Fashion Slave tours and exclusive deals at participating retailers. While the list of participating stores isn’t public yet, retailers offering the discount have the club’s logo in their windows and include local shops Candystore Collective, Density, Lemon Twist, Studio 3579 and Vintage a la Mode. We’re told restaurants and other types of local businesses will be coming on board next.

We think this makes a great gift option for San Francisco folks who love to shop local. To purchase, contact Fashion Slave or buy via the site’s purchase page (just enter $20 and Shoppers Club Card in the PayPal form).

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Pin Up Girls: Rosenmunns + Light Vision Pin Party at Anica

The folks behind the interest-piquing party invites shown here announcing the upcoming RosenMunns + Light Vision Pin Party want you and your indie fashion-minded friends to do two very simple things this Friday night. One, get some pins (a.k.a. buttons). If you’re like us, you’ve got a small pin army chilling, quite without purpose, on, in or around your nightstand-bookshelf-jewelry box-dresser drawers. And guess what? They’d really like a way cooler venue.

Which brings us to the second thing you should do Friday night. Head to Anica, where the minds behind local label RosenMunns and online indie retailer Light Vision will be waiting. There, they will ask you to ever-so-gingerly affix your pins to an oversized, sweatshirt-like garment designed, dyed and sewn by RosenMunns and worn by a live model for the soiree. Photographer Bryan Krueger will document the garment’s evolution from relatively blank canvas to pin-addled wearable art. Punk tunes and good ‘ole rock ‘n roll will fill the air. You will leave pinless, but happy. And after the party, Light Vision will sell the evening’s experimental garment in its online store.

As Light Vision’s Krista Bachmeier tells us, “It’s a collaboration, fashion, art event party, and the concept of it is really simple. We just want people to show up, pins in hand, and put them on the model. We are trusting the audience to supply us with pins and help with the creation of this garment.”

Talk about getting stuck on indie fashion…

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Green Gala Garden Party: Sustainable Fashion on the Runway

Some of the most exciting names in Bay Area sustainable fashion will show pieces from current collections during this weekend’s Green Gala Garden Party in the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley.

That new-on-the-scene and utterly intriguing Mr. Larkin, Permacouture founder and fiber artist Sasha Duerr, J.T. Leroy real-life alter ego Savannah Knoop of Tinc and eco-friendly denim pioneer Tierra Del Forte of Del Forte Denim are among the participating designers was enough to get our carbon offset, biofuel-powered engines running.

But add a redwood grove setting that’s positively gorge, organic eats, biodynamic wine and - oh yeah - a really great cause and we’re hooked like a teen on Twilight. The event is a benefit to raise funds for the care and maintenance of the garden’s 34 acres and 12,000 plant species.

When we spoke to Gala Program Coordinator Deepa Natarajan earlier this week, she told us that 70 percent of the garden’s funding comes from plant sales and fundraising efforts like this one. Along with its extensive collection of plants from around the world, the garden offers public programs that may appeal to fashion fans, including quarterly fiber dye workshops.

For more details, check out Lorraine’s post on the event on 7×7’s Glamwatch blog, check out the official web site or call 510-643-7265 to purchase tickets ($95 in advance, $115 at the door).

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Downtown Diversion: Harajuku Fashion Photography Exhibit

There’s a cool little photography exhibit showcasing Harajuku kids in Tokyo on display this month at the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco on Fremont. If you love independent-minded fashion, this Japanese phenomenon is about as indie as you can get.

For the details on the show, check out Lorraine’s Harajuku Fashion on Display post on the 7×7 Glamwatch blog today.

[Photo credit: Andy Heffernan]

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