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Over the past several years, we have operated seasonal shops in various locations around town selling locally created art, craft and design products. This year, we are coming together to open our best shop ever! SFGallery143 is merging with Local Patron to bring you the best Holiday Store yet.

Where: 1418 Grant Street @ Green

When: November18th 2009 – January 10th 2010

Hours: Monday – Saturday 11am-10pm; Sunday 11am-6pm

Events : …so far

November 20th:Opening Party Featuring DJ’ Danger Deluxxe, treats and drinks. 6pm-9pm 10% Sale

December 10th: Neighborhood Merchant Crawl 5pm-10pm we will be featuring treats from a local chocolatier.

December 18th: Nest Fundraiser, 10% of sales go to help this Non-Profit Organization. Nest helps woman get out of poverty by providing micro-loans to create their own small businesses and to become self-sufficient.

January 10th: Closing Party Featuring DJ from Hiest Dominique and Bryan Riate. Pastry Chef, Jennifer Riate, from acclaimed restaurant EOS will be featuring some of her favorite desserts for you to sample. 6pm-9pm 10% sale.

Check out one of San Francisco’s hottest designers has in store for you at SFGallery143.com. She has won battles through SF Fashion Feud, rocked numerous runways. We still remember LOVE SICK with all that scantly laced lingerie. Daryl Hannah has even had some one-on-one private lessons on sewing with Alexandria. Did we mention she has her own camp couture for girls?

Alexandria von Bromssen is featuring some of her more classic pieces for us online check it out! She will also be featuring more designs not seen online for our Holiday store in North Beach. Alexandria sews everything herself and is now doing a small production run of each item (maybe 5 are available of each) so be sure to come to the Holiday Store before her unique items are gone forever.

When does she have time to sleep??? psst…I hear it’s 4am these days. : )
Model: Kara Krauss featured in Alexandria’s Gold Cocktail Dress

Women of all Sizes Gorgeous

I am so happy a Fashion Magazine is finally stepping up and showing healthy, normal sized, beautiful women. In this video link Glamour Magazine shows us a spread of “plus” sized women in their spread. I am so happy this is becoming increasingly popular. I know this is stepping away from the fashion industry traditions on clothing sizes, but lets be honest: this is more realistic.

Numerous studies have shown that healthy women are MORE attractive to males than skinny women by an overwhelming majority. They also find that the skinnier women’s figure looks sickly. Read following link on bbc news.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8327750.stm

It is a suprise  to me even today that women over the size of 6 (the vast majority of the population) is considered a PLUS size. I am a size 8 and have been told I look sexier than I did when I was size 6 and practically starving myself. I do not feel that I am a plus size. I do not have roles of fat, I have toned arms and abs but because of my wider hip structure fight to fit into anything smaller.

Trust me, I am still fighting with all that brain washing of my dance teachers and peers (mostly woman) to feel good about my size.  Yes, I do think some styles look better on skinnier women but there are styles for all body types, and if designers are wanting to sell their clothes to a normal population that want it, I think it is smart to market to bigger sizes or have more size options.

I watched a few runway videos on Karl Lagerfeld site. If you look closely, the clothes are actually a little big on the models. Take a look at Fall ’09. The women’s skeletal figures are pretty obvious with the black pants.

Is this attractive to you?? I would love to hear your comments.

Attendance of 5,000! I don’t think so, but never-the-less it was fun. We were expecting to only get a half of a table and ended up with a full one. Yay! We were also told it was non vending….people did it anyway. Had I known we would have brought A LOT more stuff. You live you learn and in the process we still managed to get people interested. So here is to our first “exhibit” and some pictures of the other “exhibitors.”

Enjoy!

Hello Crafty People. I got this from a friend and wanted to help spread the word. Take a look at the requirements and see if you are interested. Looks like a lot of fun!

Call For Artists: R U Crafty?  iB Crafty Trunk Show Submission
Deadline Extended 8/7

Event Date: Sept 26

Application Details: http://market-sf.com/events/ib/crafty/artists.html
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As we are closing into our last week of events of the June Store, we are happy to let you know of 2 more events we are having. June 19th, this Friday, come by from 6pm-9pm to see Beth from Sweet Can Productions perform her amazing balancing act with objects.

Our events are Free and open to the public, so come on by with friends and enjoy drinks, appetizers and a show! 

10% of proceeds go to support Sweet Can Productions in their future endeavours with wonderful nights of acrobatics, juggling, trapeze, music, dance, and theater! Learn more about what their up to, join the email list and see how amazingly talented these individuals are.

JUNE 21st is our Last Day Open! Come by before we close until December. We have even added more items to the store to keep things lively and new. So even if you came by last week we still have more goodies for you to see.  Closing night we will have DJ’s Danger Deluxxe and Joey Mousepad playing great beats for you to enjoy while shopping the store, meeting the local individuals that make the store happen! Most important, we will have 10% off most everything in the store!

Store Hours: Wednesday – Friday 3-7pm (Friday open ’til 9pm for Sweet Can Productions)

Saturday: 11am-6pm

Sunday 11am-6pm (with closing party until 9pm with DJ’s Danger Deluxxe and Friends)

Come join us for our June Temporary Store Opening. See what new artists and designers we have selected to participate this Summer. Check out what Dance Companies we’re holding benefits for in our space.

10% of purchase go to support the featured company!

Come mingle with the Designers and Artists, drink Sangria and support local DIY (Do It Yourself) Artists.

Where: Located at 143 Fillmore Street (cross street Waller).

When: Store Hours are Tuesday – Friday 3pm-7pm Saturday/Sunday 11am-6pm with events following.

If unable to attend check out our new line of products by Miranda Caroligne and Daka Bag on the website.

Be Sure to stay tuned for the next 2 weeks of events. To find out more about the June Store and to click to the featured artists websites, click on the page listed on the right titled ” June Temporary Store“.

Next week June 12th Liss Fain Dance Company Benefit 6pm-9pm and June 19th Sweet Can Productions Benefit.

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Check out our Page located on the right to check out our list of events under June Temporary Store and to link over to the listed designers & company webpages.

So many fashion events in the city. Why do people attend such events? Apparently some people use it to gain inspiration from other’s ideas.

The de Young Museum has done an event called Discarded to Divine in early April that turns in donated clothing that is stained or torn from St. Vincent de Paul Society and has professional clothing designers turn them into something fantastic. Their donations doubled in 2007 when they first did the event.

From this exposure a friend Miranda Caroligne was emailed from Anthropologie. The woman stated that she loved her clothing and wanted to schedule an ”inspirational meeting” with her creative team.  Someone starting out might find this flattering, but it is also insulting. Think about what she is offering. A free meeting to get ideas from a local artist to use for their mass productions. I can see how this would be flattering to a student just graduating and trying to make it in the retail/design world but, there is no offer that their work would be recognized.

The woman did not offer to pay her for the ideas, or offer Miranda a job. Nor, did she schedule an inspirational meeting with their team that discusses what makes each one of them inspired vs. finding it from a local designer. I understand it can be difficult to find inspiration within themselves but I do not believe it is okay to have a meeting with their creative team to “borrow” ideas from a local designer without giving her any credit.

This isn’t the first time I have heard of Anthropologie trying to copy other smaller designers’ work. So here is a cheers to Miranda for having such awesome ideas and refusing politely. 

To see work by Miranda click link. It is on page 15 on the flickr photos.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/discardedtodivine/page15

The first of each month is incredibly busy with events around town it’s hard to keep up! This weekend I managed to visit the de Young Museum to see Jenne Giles of Harelequin Feltworks selling her beautiful Felt Rose Scarfs. Along with her and some other textile makers who were apart of ARTWEAR, I quickly went through the Andy Warhol exhibit and had time to listen to a few songs by the local band Thee Oh Sees. 

Saturday, I unfortunately missed the fashion show for Opel but made it by Chillin’ Productions at 111 Minna and bought a great 20′s style hat from Behida D.

Sunday came and I was unable to attend Diwang Pinay for their 7th Annual Pinay Showcase, “an annual performance and silent auction showcasing Filipina/Filipina-American performers, writers, and artists” do to a splitting headache.  So much stuff so little time! This was only a handful of things going on the first of the Month.

This city that we live in is so amazing.  It really does make our lives richer when we step outside our comfort zone and do something out of the ordinary. I hope you all are able to take advantage!

Hope you enjoy the links. Sorry no photos this time :  (