The Fashionista Lab

The day before I flew to New York I was lucky enough to attend a pre-luncheon celebrating AAU’s fashion graduates. 1. A collaboration between fashion and architecture students was on display at the reception. 2. Drawings by Gladys Perint Palmer, the Academy of Art’s Executive Director of Fashion, lined the entryway into the lunch. She [...]

If vintage clothing is more your speed, the bi-annual Vintage Fashion Expo is happening this weekend. Join me there, too! *note: if you would like to attend the Macy’s x MADE event, you must RSVP to the email address above.

1, 2. The entrance to Sarah Seven‘s showroom. I adored her chalk “sketches”. 3.  A champagne bar? Don’t mind if I do… 4, 5, 6, 7. Scenes from brunch 8. Erin (she also co-hosted the brunch), me, Kim, Jeanne, Angela, Katie, and Natalie. It was really fun to catch up with so many people over [...]

1. At the last minute yesterday I realized that I would have the chance to attend the Maison Martin Margiela x H&M pre-sale. Given all my planning and plotting, I was super-psyched to get a head start on the crowds. 2. Waiting in line, rocking Ace & Jig. 3. The MMM collaboration is set up as [...]

1. Urban Prototyping is a festival centered around Placemaking Through Prototyping: How Citizen Experiments Reimagine the Public Realm. The festival showed an array of new creative projects which blend the digital and physical to explore new possibilities in public space. 2. Pulse of the City: the heart takes your pulse, plays it back as a beat, then [...]

I’m trying to do a better job of posting about the fashion scene in San Francisco (and the outfits I wear to them) – especially now that I have an iPhone (!) and can actually take good pictures on the go. Last night I went to the Start-ups and Style event hosted by Eventbrite, Threadflip, [...]

This has been in the works for several weeks, so I’m super psyched to finally make the official announcement: I’m partnering with Macy’s in putting together a curated fashion closet with my top picks for fall! On October 13th I’ll be hanging out the Walnut Creek store, chatting up shoppers, and helping them choose which pieces [...]

This Wednesday SF Fashion+Tech is hosting a FashTech Showcase, a startup event like you’ve never seen before! Featuring Body Scanning, Augmented Reality, Mobile Commerce, Video, Wearable Technology, and more. Check the Eventbrite page for the full list of participating start-ups. General Admission tickets are $20, but my readers get 25% off the ticket price with code “ADELLES64″. See [...]

Who knew that three years ago, when Anna Wintour dreamed up Fashion’s Night Out as a way to get shoppers back in stores, that it would become a global kick-off for fashion week? People all over the country, and the world are throwing celebrations. Which should make FNO the largest, most fashionable pep rally the [...]