The fourth annual 5 designers and a poodle fashion show was produced by Charleston Pierce, a nominee for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Man Of The Year. Charleston is a veteran of the San Francisco fashion scene having modeled for and worked with the Macy’s Passport show for many years. He was drawn to this worthwhile cause due to his mother’s passing away from the disease in 1999. This year’s show was held at Temple night club and featured five designers including returning designers Verreries & Sako. Stephanie Verreries and her design partner Kimi Sako are veterans of the Bay Area design scene having risen to notoriety after showing with Gen Art’s Fresh Faces In Fashion two years ago. They continue to innovate with their feminine and elegant designs incorporating both modern and classic design elements that adorn their many creations. The other four designers included California Innovations Resort Attire , Cory Couture, Picky San Francisco, and Oksana Couture, as well as a collection of Men’s Wear from [...]
Photo mosaic created with a selection of 893 cover images from Esquire magazine from October 1933 to March 2008. 199 horizontal images by 259 vertical images for a total of 51,541 images. Dimensions: 15,840 pixels by 20,560 for a total of 326 megapixels.Uncompressed image file size: 932 megabytes. Print size if printed at 300 dpi: 4.4 ft by 5.7 [...]
Fast forward to the opening night of the Charleston Fashion Week. (I know, don’t laugh. What the hell is Charleston Fashion Week?) At the end of the show, a designer walks out to take her bows. I guess no one told her not to walk over the lights in the middle. You can see her hesitate as her first step did not meet a solid footing. But instead of stepping back, she steps forward and down she goes. But that’s not all, this runway black hole claims another victim who was too focused on running to her rescue to notice the fragile trap before him. Down goes our would be hero. Oh well, at least Charleston got their 15 minutes of fame on [...]
I got an invitation from my friend and über designer Stephanie Verrieres to help her celebrate her birthday at the studio she shares with her business partner Kimie Sako. Together, the form the design team Verrieres & Sako and have been making splashes in the San Francisco design scene ever since they debuted at the [...]
There’s not much going on in terms of runway fashion shows in San Francisco so when the opportunity came to shoot LA Fashion Week I jumped at it. LA Fashion week is a real industry event open only to people in the fashion industry. Produced by IMG, the same company that produces NY [...]
My dear friend Collen Quen will be featured on America’s Next Top Model on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 as a guess designer. Catch it if you can. I’ve known Colleen and her husband Rick Lee for several years and they are one of San Francisco’s most dynamic creative forces combining high fashion and industrial furniture [...]
Project Runway season two designer Diana Eng took the top prize at Yahoo Hack Day as part of an all women team who also included Emily Albinski and Audrey Roy. Their winning project, called “Blogging in Motion“, combined a camera, a pedometer, a handbag, and the Flickr API to create a device that would snap [...]