May 24, 2012

Snow II

On the runway at Snow, A White Fashion Event, Year 2. Dress by Joseph Domingo

Last night’s Snow was an impressive event for San Francisco fashion. In addition to the participating designers, a slew of interesting and notable folks turned out, including Christopher Collins and his co-pilot-in-fashion Erica Tanamachi, Charleston Pierce, Karen Tamblyn, Owen Geronimo, Fati Farmanfarmaian, Lorence Manansala, Marie Leggette and many others.

The show was smoothly-produced, and the space looked like it had been made for a fashion event, though it may very well have been the first runway show to happen in the space (I’d need to check my sources to confirm this, but that’s my guess).

Stay tuned for more on the show this week. We’ll be covering it extensively in photos, words and also a film (thanks to the return of the super-savvy SF Indie Fashion contributor Jessica V.) But just wanted to throw something up here today since it’s all fresh in my head.

The above pic is of a dress by Joseph Domingo. My iPhone photo obviously doesn’t do it justice, but at least you can get the feel of the space and what it was like to have everyone on the runway and surrounding it in the crowd all dressed in white.

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Spend any amount of time in and around San Francisco’s growing fashion community, and you’re likely to run into Owen Geronimo. Founder of the San Francisco Fashion and Merchants Alliance (SFFMA) and producer of local events such as this weekend’s San Francisco Fashion Week – The Reinvention and the ongoing Fashion Mash-ups series, Geronimo is constantly organizing gatherings that give local designers the opportunity to show their work [Read more...]

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