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Friday Shopping Fun: Pop-Up Closing Party at Urban Interstice Gallery

December 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

It’s quiet in local fashion event-land this week, so we’re tabling our usual Do List for a shorter shout-out to one party that deserves mention. On Friday, head into the weekend by perusing jewelry by designers Shana Astrachan and Kelly Nedderman during the Closing Party at Urban Interstice Gallery. It brings an end to this year’s holiday season pop-up of the designers’ work, which ranges from ultra-wearable everyday earrings to statement necklaces and artsy baubles.

They’ll have snacks and a surprise discount or two from 4-8 p.m., though you can stop by anytime this week by giving Shana a call to make an appointment at 415.420.0527.

You’ll find more upcoming San Francisco style events and a few New Year’s Eve shindigs on the SF Indie Fashion Calendar…

 

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The Do List: San Francisco Fashion Events Oct. 31-Nov.6

October 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Among the stylish San Francisco events to look forward to this week are a jewelry-making class with sass, an accessories-heavy shopping event, a local designer’s fall collection on display and a denim trunk show. Intrigued? You’ll find the details on the SF Indie Fashion Calendar.

  • Get the week going by learning a thing or two during the Feathers, Leather and Chains jewelry-making class at Workshop. The one-evening how-to will leave you with two pairs of earrings and one necklace, as well as plenty of jewelry-making basics courtesy of instructor Shana Astrachan.
  • Midweek you can shop independent, scope accessories and apparel and indulge in cocktails and mini beauty treatments during the latest installment of Shecky’s Girls Night Out, taking place at Fort Mason. Participants include BellaSole shoes, Benefit, Stella & Dot, Aknot jewelry and others. The two-evening event offers goodie bags, and you can score a free ticket and book a complimentary brow arch before you go here.
  • Also on Thursday, local favorite (and Project Runway contestant) Christopher Collins re-opens his Sutter Street boutique after closing to focus on summer and fall deliveries with an evening gathering featuring the label’s Fall 2011 collection, as well as a $50 discount on purchases when you buy two items. Dunno ’bout you, but we’re kind of salivating over the jacket up above (stop it animal print-meets-tribal thing. just stop it). Can’t make it that night? Email them to stop by earlier in the week.
  • If you’re a denim hound, you’ll find premium pairs on display this Saturday at Heidi Says Casual during the Pac Heights boutique’s Paige Denim Trunk Show.

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

Photography courtesy of Christopher Collins

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Painted Ladies: Fox & Doll Does Wedding Makeup San Francisco-Style

August 30, 2010 By 1 Comment

Fox and Doll, a.k.a. Elizabeth Fox and Shana Astrachan, say they can’t do what they do anywhere other than San Francisco – and not just because the makeup artist duo lives here in the Bay Area. Rather, as we learned when we met up with them just before a recent photo shoot for Bay Area label She-Bible, it’s because the people of San Francisco keep their aesthetic alive.

“San Francisco isn’t a slave to trends and looks. There’s everything, and I love that. Elsewhere in the country, people have a lot of preconceived notions of what a bride should look like…and I think that San Francisco brides, based on our experience, do not want that–at all. And they want anything but,” says Fox, who started doing make up in the theater department at San Francisco State and since has worked on over 20 films.

Fox’s partner, Astrachan, agrees: “The bride I was working with yesterday said to me, ‘I’m thinking sexy,’ and I was like, ‘Whoa! Let’s do it! Why not?’”

The pair may have met on the set of the locally-filmed horror flick, All About Evil, but their cosmetic style is far from scary.

“We focus on classic and vintage hair and makeup, individualizing everybody’s look, but based on kind of classic styles and look,” says Astrachan, who draws inspiration from the drag scene in San Francisco.

“I love the drag, the campy, the made-up glamour, and I find it really interesting….It’s not usually the type of work that we’re doing. I just find it very inspiring that you can completely change a face in so many ways,” she says.

The duo also takes steps to be as green as possible.

“We use very little disposable items.We rarely use disposable brushes or wands. We try to do as little as reusing a tissue, use part of it, flip it over. I mean we’re very, very sanitary, but we are also very conscious of that,” stresses Astrachan.

Fox and Doll have experience doing makeup for films, commercials and local fashion labels. But lately they’ve been prepping for a new type of client.

“Now that Prop 8 is overturned, we expect to get a lot of phone calls…even if you’re marrying someone of the same sex, you still need a little touch of make up,” Fox says.

Want the look from She-Bible’s recent photo shoot, shown here? Check out the tips in the video below.

More SF Indie Fashion videos…

Photography courtesy of Joe Budd for She-Bible and Fox & Doll

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