May 25, 2013

The Do List: San Francisco Fashion Events Nov. 7-13

Among the San Francisco fashion events to look forward to this week are a sold-out fashion and tech event we love, a Hayes Valley hair fest, a Cow Hollow boutique’s art-laden fiesta and local designers we covet on display at a local salon. Intrigued? You’ll find the details on the SF Indie Fashion Calendar.

  • Things get kickin’ on Thursday with SF Fashion + Tech: How Technology is Changing the Face of Fashion. Yup, the rumors are true. This event is completely sold out and has been for weeks. But you can score a free ticket by keeping your peepers peeled on SF Indie Fashion this week. We’ll be giving away one free pass. Don’t miss it.
  • On Friday, get twisted during the Oxenrose Happy Hour Braid Bar. Along with having a good ‘ole time, you’ll learn how to fashion your locks in more ways than one.
  • Come Saturday, do it up at RGB Gallery’s Before it was Sewn show featuring local designers and artists such as Zoe Hong, Faithy Leong, Briana Kranz and NYC’s Deborah Atalig. Score 10 percent off purchases during the evening event. Art, music and live modeling are part of the mix.
  • Last but not least, indulge in the latest from local designers on Sunday during a trunk show at Bijoux salon featuring Micaela Greg, Big Things, Serial Cultura, Papaver Very and makeup by Heather Cabrera.

You can find details on all of these events and more happening this week on the SF Indie Fashion Calendar.

SF Indie Fashion News Roundup: Hambone Designs, Oxenrose Blow Out Class, Marie Denee Launch and more…

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Sun+late August+Friday=we don’t wanna work no more. In other news….

Streetsblog San Francisco alerts us to local bike bag maker Hambone Designs, and we like what we see (and not just because they named one of the stylish bike utility bags The Balzac, pictured).

The Renegade Craft Fair is now taking applications from designers for its San Francisco holiday event.

Marie Denee of The Curvy Fashionista fame will launch an online boutique for plus-size style-seekers this fall. We applaud this. There is a serious drought of great plus size fashion in this world and what is out there is often hard for shoppers to find. And besides, style has nothing to do with size. Like you needed us to tell you that. The launch is currently slated for Sept. 9.

New York, we hate you. Sniff.*

Dude, it’s time you learned how to blow yourself.** For that, go to Oxenrose in Hayes Valley on Sept. 24 for the salon’s first blow-dry class. It’s $75, but you can use half of that towards the purchase of products to help you keep you reproduce the ‘do at home. Email ashley (at) oxenrose (dot) come to sign up.

Local jewelry designer John S. Brana gets a show at Bloomies.

Crafty people, hear this: You can now obtain the entire box set of Craft Magazine for $75 (reg. $150) when you use the coupon code CRAFTSUB at checkout.

Project TransAction has launched a line of handmade leather dog collars (available at Jeffrey’s Natural Pet Foods) and is currently have a 20 percent off online sale on all leather goods.

Crossroads Trading Company got in touch to remind us that a back-to-school wardrobe doesn’t have to cost your schoolbooks’ weight in gold. Buy, sell, trade. You know the deal.

We are quite intrigued by the Noe Valley blog’s news that Green 11 may be opening up another shop in San Francisco. We love the idea behind the company, which allows you to bring your own containers to fill up on eco-friendly cleaning supplies and beauty products.

If you love Moxsie as much as we do, you’ll want to sign up for the site’s newsletter. It means an additional 10 percent off your next purchase of $50 or more.

Acrimony has a new look.

*Really, we are just sickened with jealousy. Someone please record this and send us a vid. We’ll do something nice for you.

**Typically on Fridays, we momentarily regress into 12-year-olds.