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 happenings, fashion shows and places to shop from independent sources. This week is no exception. Here’s our pick of top events this week:
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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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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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Whether or not you’re attending tonight’s Discarded to Divine event benefiting the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco and its social services programs, we’re betting you can appreciate the work that went into this cocktail dress of Fiji Water bottles by Project Runway contestant and San Francisco designer Jay Nicolas Sario, who told us last week that he, in fact, drank every bottle of water involved in this little number’s creation.
Photo courtesy of Shelly Prevost for Fiji Water
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