San Francisco Independent Fashion
A chance to celebrate full-figure fashion awaits during Oakland’s Kiss the Curves fashion show on Saturday. Headed down the runway will be plus-size looks from national label Ashley Stewart, Chicago’s Chocolate Sushi Couture, A Clothes Mind, Tru Diva, Bay Area-based online boutique Marie Denee and Bay Area labels Igigi and Corinthia Peoples Designs.
Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door
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When Project Runway returns this Thursday night on Lifetime, you’ll spot two Bay Area locals battling it out on the sartorial reality show’s seventh season.
Learn more about Oakland resident Amy Sarabi and San Francisco’s Jay Nicolas Sario in these two short videos showcasing their home and work life.
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For spring, Oakland-based Serial Cultura by designer Jen Jennings continues to extol the virtues of prints, with colorful graphic patterns layered and either digitally printed or hand-silkscreened onto silks, silk knit and organic cotton.
Joining the scarves, tops and dresses Jennings is known for are two styles of printed leggings, marking the designer’s first foray into below-the-waist fashion.
View the spring 2010 lookbook above, keep up with the current happenings from Serial Cultura on Jennings’s blog and find out more about the inspiration behind the latest from this local label here.
Turn what you no longer need into a fresh start for someone else – and save a little while you’re at it. Bring gently used accessories to East Bay boutique McMullen Thursday through Saturday during an accessories drive benefiting Oakland non-profit Wardrobe for Opportunity, which provides professional attire and career training programs to low-income job-seekers.
For your trouble, take 10 percent off any single accessory in the shop.
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Head east on Friday night for the latest Style Lounge, taking place across the Bay at the Oakland Museum of California. Along with shopping from participating vendors and makeovers by the SF Institute of Esthetics and Cosmetology, the event features a 10 p.m. fashion show from designers Revelation by M.E., K. Antoinette Collection, Oaklandish, O’Lover Hats, Helena de Natalio, Mama’s Little Babies, Andrea Wysocki, Versa Jewelry, Funky and Fabulous and Hearts Desire Jewelry.
And unlike many local shopping events aimed squarely at those of us on shopping missions, this one offers plenty to entertain your less-than-fashion-obsessed cohorts (and that’s always a bonus when you’re trying to round up the troops for a Friday night adventure). Along with the fashion show and shopping components, Style Lounge also includes a kids’ zone by the Chabot Space & Science Center, eight stages of live music, film screenings, a tattoo art exhibition, cocktail and food vendors and an official after party for attendees at the Uptown Nightclub.
Be one of the first to arrive on Friday, and you’ll receive a free tote bag from Oakland Unwrapped and a copy of Ready Made magazine. For details, check out the Style Lounge Facebook fan page.
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