San Francisco Independent Fashion
Our very-visual, (almost) chatter-free snap judgment of the day: the perfect-for-spring hue of the Stella Clutch, $152, by San Francisco designer Lisa Davey’s Holly Scott line of leather goods. Available for pre-order now, this streamlined carry-all ships at the end of May.
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49 Square Miles, maker of laidback-luxe handbags and accessories we’ve coveted for years, has given us a stylish reason to head south. Now open on the ground level of its South San Francisco headquarters, the new 49 Square Miles retail shop offers a chance to peruse the latest from the four-year-old Bay Area accessories line.
Launched by Lisa Rissetto in 2007, the company is known for roomy leather hobos in rich hues and has expanded in recent years to offer jewelry, scarves and a line of outfit-making leather belts. Until now, fans have had to either shop online or hunt down the label at its stockists (locally, the list includes Nest and Carrots). But the new shop – open for now on Fridays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and by appointment – means a chance to view a large number of items from the brand in one place.
Along with regularly-priced merch, we hear the shop will also offer marked-down styles from previous seasons, samples and one-of-a kind prototypes in a 1,000-square-foot space outfitted with vintage display pieces.
Want to see it for yourself? Head to 160 S. Linden Avenue #200, South San Francisco. For appointments, call 415-904-0690 ext 20.
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Our very-visual, (almost) chatter-free snap judgment of the day: the rock chic pairing of distressed leather and antique hardware in the Morelle clutch, $290, from San Francisco-based Bryna Nicole and available on Indeeyo.com, a Bay Area-based online shop devoted to independent fashion labels.
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Our very-visual, (almost) chatter-free snap judgment of the day: the slouchy-chic shape of the Jessica tote in mushroom-hued leather, $350, by new San Francisco handbag line Holly Scott, the latest from local designer Lisa Davey.
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The 49 Square Miles social poetry contest is in full swing through Saturday, and I’ve been meaning to post my entry for weeks now. But as a writer, I was totally procrastinating and thinking, well, if I write something, it has to be brilliant and earth-shattering, right? But then I realized I was making the perfect the enemy of the kinda-sorta-okay and just not getting it done. So I just sat down and wrote what popped into my head this morning, and here it is:
Blue sky over Bernal, pot in the wind, an old man in a speedo on the corner in the Haight, runners along The Embarcadero, bacon-chocolate-maple-something donuts, the sound of the J, skateboard dog clashes, sweatshirts on the beach mid-summer, hills, hills, fog at 4, more hills.
Not a real poem or any cohesive statement about San Francisco, but it’s what came up for me as I tried to define the City in 49 words this morning. There are a million scenes and adjectives and vignettes I can think of to describe the City. I have no idea why these came to mind first. I suppose the man in the speedo was seared into my brain when I saw it – I’ve never been able to get that image out of my head, and it happened like 8 years ago one morning when I was walking to the bus back when I lived on Haight St. Picture it: old man, corner of Haight and Masonic, nothing but tennis shoes and a speedo. Wild. I should also interject here that I have a hard time seeing men in speedos. It’s been a lifelong phobia.
The most important thing I learned from doing this little exercise is that I have so much to say about San Francisco, that so much of San Francisco takes up so much of my consciousness, that it’s hard to distill it into as little as 49 words. And that’s a good thing, I suppose.
Would it be depressing to live somewhere that you could sum up in a sentence?
If you want to enter the contest for your chance at a 49 Square Miles Big Mouth Hobo Bag (they are amazing bags, and expensive, around $600 a pop), you can put your own 49 words up on the 49 Square Miles Facebook page through Saturday.
Full disclosure: 49 Square Miles is an SF Indie Fashion sponsor, but this is not a sponsored post.
