Tag: Willie Brown

  • {Out & About} Academy of Art Luncheon

    {Out & About} Academy of Art Luncheon

    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…

  • In Which I Meet Willie Brown, Former Mayor of San Francisco

    In Which I Meet Willie Brown, Former Mayor of San Francisco

    Macy’s, O’Farrell Street, 7th Floor. I’m looking for the Macy’s Fashion Incubator launch event. I see the back of a dapper looking man and overhear him asking for directions, to what sounds like the same thing. He is directed to the 6th floor and I follow, calling after him – “you’re looking for the Incubator…