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Fashion Incubator San Francisco unveiled

 in Bay Area Fashion / Events / General Fashion / Local Designers  tagged emerging designers / fisf / macys / spring 2012 by

On Thursday, March 29, 2012 Macy’s unveiled the new Fashion Incubator San Francisco work space which includes offices for the six designers in residence. This highly anticipated event attracted local celebrities such as “Da Mayor” Willie Brown and David Chui from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

The Fashion Incubator San Francisco includes 3,500 square feet of workspace for six emerging designers who have access to their own professional-grade workroom, showroom, classroom and offices. The designers moved into the workspace this month and have just begun to create their spring 2013 collections.

The Fashion Incubator San Francisco or FISF was founded in 2011 as a non-profit to help turn talented designers into successful San Francisco entrepreneurs. The unveiling of the FISF workspace marks the beginning of an era for the non-profit as the first class of six designers begin their journey to launch their spring 2013 collections, followed by their fall 2013 lines.

The programs offers designers the right business education and tools to give them the skills they will need to continue and grow their businesses after the twelve month program ends. The ribbon “unzipping” ceremony revealed an incredible workspace which included production equipment such as straight stitch machines, hemmers, sergers, work tables, a large cutting table and gravity irons.

Executive Director of FISH and Co-Founder of Jeanne-Marc expressed her enthusiasm for the program: “We are thrilled to kick of FISH’s inaugural program and welcome the six Designers in Residence to the San Francisco fashion and business communities and to their new home at our facility. Through FISH, these designers will be able to tap into the many local resources and talents that the San Francisco business community has to offer, and we look forward to the opportunity to one day helping them establish businesses of their own.”

The Fashion Incubator San Francisco six Designers in Residence are:

Justin Jamison: progressive urban wear for men

Tamara Jaric: women’s urban outerwear embellished with couture details

Bethany Meuleners and Sabah Mansoor Husain: working together on Bohemian-Luxe women’s wear with artisan handicrafts and global influences

Tony Sananikone: “women’s wear reflecting empowerment and beauty

Paloma Von Broadley: embracing “slow fashion” through hand-made, sustainable patterning, sewing and knitting

Fashion Incubator San Francisco is a non-profit organization located in the executive office building of Macy’s Union Square in San Francisco. For more information, please visit fashionincubatorsf.org

*Original version of this article was written and published by Cathy on Examiner.com

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Five fabulous fragrances for spring 2012

 in Beauty / Fragrance  tagged spring 2012 by

Some of the beautiful things about the spring season are watching flowers bloom, enjoying the sun shine just a little bit longer each day, and being able to spend more time outdoors. The warm temperatures and switch from an indoor life, to an outdoor life, in the spring season marks the need for a change of fragrance.

In the cool, fall and winter months we gravitate towards fragrances which help create warmth and include mixtures of woods, amber, musk, oud and vanilla. When the weather warms up, we begin to feel the need for crisp and refreshing fragrances which combine florals, fruits, green leaves and citrus.

For the spring 2012 season, designers and perfumers seem to be favoring Iris, jasmine, rose, green leaves and spice for the warmer weather. So we tested and sniffed as many new fragrance releases that we could find and place under our noses; narrowing the choices down to our five favorites.

These are our five favorite fragrances for the spring 2012 season.

 

  1. A Dozen Roses: Electron EDP
  2. Valentino: Valentina EDP
  3. Creed: Spice and Wood
  4. Jo Malone: Iris & Lady Moore Cologne
  5. Hanae Mori: No. 6

 

What is your favorite fragrance right now?

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Metallic touches for the spring season

 in General Fashion / Trends  tagged metallics / spring 2012 / summer 2012 by

Metallic touches are being found everywhere for the spring 2012 season. Shimmering fabrics are being found on dresses, skirts, pants, denim and tops; showing the world that sparkle is for more than just evening occasions. Metallics have been an important trend over the past few seasons, but for spring 2012 they have taken store shelves, and streets, by storm. 

Metallic fabrics, sequins, crystal encrusted jewelry, glitter pumps, metallic touches on shoes, metallic leathers and more are being spotted everywhere. They key to wearing this trend is to pick one apparel piece either made from metallic fabric or adorned with a shimmering embellishment or embroidery which shines. Metallic touches for spring are exactly that; touches. Leave the head to toe metallics for formal affairs and clubs 
One of the great things about the metallic trend is that is has already been spotted on the fall runways. The most prominent metallic touch on the fall runway was gold embroidery; especially yellow gold paired with black. This is definitely one trend to watch and invest in for 2012. Happy shopping, and stay fabulous 
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