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Astonish Magazine presents the Black V Fashion Show and Masquerade featuring established, independent and emerging local fashion designers and boutiques. The event will be held on Saturday, May 21, 2011 at Madrone Studios, a stylish multi-media space in the SOMA district of San Francisco (1417 15th Street.) 6 PM static presentation | 730 PM fashion show.

Black V Fashion Event gives the designers a platform to showcase their designs inspired by the dark side of fashion and still remain chic and stylish. In its second year, we are incorporating a masquerade to motivate the audience’s participation and a pre-show static presentation. Fashion Photo Shoot and Networking are essential components of this event.

Fashion for Fashion: All proceeds of this event will be donated to the Fashion Department at City College of San Francisco (501c3 organization). This year, the Department will celebrate the 10th year anniversary of its Fashion Show Production program. This program generates Northern California’s only student-produced fashion event.

FEATURED DESIGNERS:

JAY NICOLAS SARIO | HOMME BY DAHAE KIM | GB SHRIVE| LHC COUTURE | MENK | KEN CHEN SF | PHUONG MY | and CARI BORJA

Accessory: KAATJE DESIGN | GUZEL DESIGN | EUGENE HUANG

SPONSORS:

Hair: Le Burge’t Salon

MakeUp: San Francisco Institute of Esthetics and Cosmetology- A Paul Mitchell Partner School

Media Sponsor: Astonish Magazine

Venue: Madrone Studios

IN SUPPORT BY:

Owen Buenaventura | Del Geronimo | Rick Calao @ Simms Ink. | Emily Sims | Gail Ballesteros-Shrive | Shane Stinar

WEBSITE:

http://www.jaynicolassario.com/

http://www.hommedahaekim.com/

http://www.gbshrivedesigns.com/

http://www.lhccouture.com/

http://www.menkclothing.com/

http://www.kenchensf.com/

http://phuongmys.com/

http://www.cariborja.com/

By Sara Becker

Monday May 9th 2011

As an Academy alumni, I was excited and curious to see what the fashion/knitwear departments had cooked up. The event took place on campus at 5^th and Brannan. The space worked well but it felt a bit like a fashion show located on the moon, as a fellow attendee put it while trying to catch a cab, “where the hell are we?”

All jokes aside, the show was really very well done. I watched students walking into the event, all dressed to the nines and clearly nervous, not that I blame them. But on the catwalk you could see the hours of work they had poured into their designs. As their clothes took their turns on the runway you could almost feel the mood in the room lift. I had many favorites from the show but I especially loved that there were collaborations between fashion design/knitwear/textiles and for one portion, even architecture.

My favorite designers were Ashley J. Jung and Jannika Lilja. Ashley J. Jung’s menswear collection was breezy, fresh and innovative. It was beautifully done and kept reminding me of what a chic inspector would wear in Monaco. Her palate was comprised mainly of whites, beiges and creams, which lent even further to the effortless feel of the clothes. Watching the models walk they looked as though they were draped perfectly in light summer gauze, maybe a summer glow if that makes more sense.

Jannika Lilja’s knitwear/fashion design (she mastered both) was the color polar opposite of Ashley J. Jung’s. Lilja filled the runway in extremely detailed long black sweaters and dresses. She played with line design and direction in one long sweater that seemed to have endless dimension to it. Her designs were immediately bewitching and haunting. It seemed as though her designs were daring the audience to make a move. I couldn’t help thinking of witchy cowgirls while watching her part of the show. I don’t know if witchy cowgirls exist, but they do now.

All in all, the show definitely delivered. The designs that were shown on the runway did not look like the designs of students, they looked like the designs of professionals.

By Sara Becker

Monday, May. 2nd. 2011

We walked up the stairs with great excitement at what lay ahead, yard by extravagant yard of Balenciaga. Upon entrance, I became acutely aware of a magnificent pink dress posed under dim spotlights. It was a taffeta evening dress from the winter of 1957, worn by Mrs. Peter Baumberger. The dress stood alone gorgeously with a bit of a train in the back and an uptick in the front. To be draped in it would have meant being cloaked in the loveliest pink imaginable, I imagine it would have felt like wearing a wedding cake.

From there we became awash in wonderfully deep midnight black suits, capes and dresses inspired by the death of Balenciaga’s father and the mourning attire his mother had to wear when he was a child. The transition from pink to black black black made me lean forward towards the impeccably tailored suits so far that I felt my nose might touch a skirt hem. It felt like I wanted to smash my face up against the pieces to really see them and their strong lined bullfighter influence.

The Spanish influence and references were abundant, from the symbolism of the carnation used as the fabric for a strapless evening dress (recognized as a token given to bullfighters after a fight) to the petite bullfighter inspired over coats and the over skirts inspired by Goya.

As we continued to drift around the exhibit, I couldn’t help picturing Audrey Hepburn or Elizabeth Taylor in his sculpted silk gazar dresses with their faces and necks awash in diamonds.

I was completely inspired by the exhibit and could probably write about it for several more paragraphs. However, we all have other things to do right? So I will leave you with a few short last thoughts on it:

1.Some of his later gowns were inspired by his friendships with abstract artists, specifically Picasso and Miró, these friendships led to one of my favorite green dresses of all time:

2. Is Calvin Klein’s work inspired by Balenciaga’s clean lines? The simplicity and dimension of Balenciaga’s clothing felt really close to Calvin Klein.

3. The dresses were all draped perfectly on mannequins but I kept longing to see a lady’s face above all of the fabric, as if that would make the look complete.

4. Just for fun :

Go see the exhibit before it ends on July 4^th!

gr.dano piece

Friday nights at the De Young prove to be a good time. This Friday night ( today) the De Young is having a preview of “Discard To Divine”  for their free Friday nights. A cool concept for designers to be involved with.  Check out the designer list and info on the actually ( later dated) event below.  Hope to see you there.

Designer List:

Vicente Agor
Diane and Martha Austen
Holly Badgley
Aimee Baldwin
Sushanta Bhandarkar
Cari Borja
Lisa Bottom
Bo Breda
Megan Cardoza
Miranda Caroline
Dawn Castel
Coral Castillo
Regina Cate
Christopher Collins
Heather Craig
Joe Cunningham
Liisa Dalbak
Julian Dash
Renate Elster
Samuel Flemming Lewis
Suzan Friedland
Spring Garrett
Raymond Gin
Lynne Gillan
Hansine Goran
gr.dano
Jenne Giles
Peter Gravener
Thomas Haryanto

Terry Hollowell
Wesley Ito
Stephan Kladder
Nayda Klein
Adrian Leong
Kathlene Linehan
Christina Lowery
Renata Martins
Julia Meeks
Famous Melissa
Shay Miles
Nancy Ortega
Sweet P
Sarah Padgham
Janice Paredes
Louisa Parris
Mary Hall Patrone
Marianne Pearson
Isabel Perdomo
Jill Pillot
Naz Saeed
Jessica Shade
Laurel Shakelsford
Natasha Sheveleva
Olga Shor
Sally Smith
Myrna Tatar
Connie Walkershaw
Pamela Wiston-Charbonneau
Diana Wong

Info:

[SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL, 2011] – Discarded clothing donated to the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco’s Help Desk is transformed into couture clothing, decorative accessories and exquisite home décor at the 6th annual Discarded to Divine fashion show. These one-of-a-kind items will be auctioned at the annual fundraising gala on Thursday, April 28th at The Hall at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco.  This event kicks off with a cocktail party and silent auction, followed by a live auction and show at 8 pm featuring a select group of designs. Delectable cuisine will be offered by top San Francisco restaurants and vendors.

This much-anticipated annual event brings fashion and compassion together by uniting Bay Area fashion students and professional designers with the important mission of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco. The event began in 2005, when Help Desk Director, Sally Rosen, found herself facing a pile of unusable donated clothing, torn and stained. She began to think of recycling; imagining how these discarded garments could be remade into something new and useful. She invited designers to take the discarded clothing and create wearable works of art and exquisite home décor, thus Discarded to Divine was created.

Continuing with tradition, this year’s designers were inspired by items in the de Young Museum’s collection.  A partial list of participating designers includes Cari Borja, gr.dano, Sweet P, Miranda Caroligne, Hansine Goran, Jill Pillot and student participants from the Academy of Art University, FIDM, San Francisco State University and the California College of the Arts.

We are proud to announce the live auction runway designers for this year’s Discarded to Divine:

“Silk Print Cocktail Ensemble” by Ulises Alcala,

CSU East Bay Instructor

“Galatea At Twilight – Dress” by Cari Borja

“Caroligne” by Miranda Caroligne

“Anachronism” by Kelly Cercone, FIDM

“Alchemy Triptych” by Hansine Goran, Current Carpets

“Tablecloth Dress” by Wesley Ito, 78 RPM

“How the West Was Won” by Melissa Panages, Famous Melissa

“The Dorothy Coat” by Janice Paredes, FIDM Instructor

“Chihuahua Day Jacket” by Marianne Pearson

“Anastasia” by Olga Shor, Olga Shor Design Studio

“Aphrodite” by Xiang Zhang and Yoorim Kim,

Academy of Art University

“Ombre Coat” by Jill Girodano and Brian Scheyer, gr.dano

This event would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors including Gap, Inc., Gensler, 7×7, California Home & Design, FIJI Water, SKYY Vodka, Robert Mondavi Private Reserve and many other supporters.

All proceeds from Discarded to Divine will benefit the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco’s programs including the Riley Center for Battered Women and Their Children, the Vincentian Help Desk, the Ozanam Center and Multi-Service Center—South

About the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco:
The St. Vincent de Paul Society is one of San Francisco’s major human service organizations with programs that help those working to overcome homelessness, poverty, domestic violence and addiction.  The Society’s programs include the largest homeless shelter in Northern California, the largest continuum of battered women’s shelters and services in the City, and one of only two programs in San Francisco that distributes free clothing. Every day the St. Vincent de Paul Society feeds, clothes, shelters and helps more than 1,000 men, women and children, serving more than 75,000 individuals a year.  For more information, please visit www.svdp-sf.org.

For information contact: Heather Ripley | St. Vincent de Paul Society-SF | hripley@svdp-sf.org | 415.977-1270, x3079

http://www.svdp-sf.org; http://www.discardedtodivine.org