By Sara Becker
May 14, 2012

Last week the President made history when he issued a statement supporting gay marriage. Personally, I was thrilled to hear that he’d changed his tune. My immediate reaction was and is, it’s about f*ing time.

Whatever your reaction may be to the announcement, I’m sure we can all agree that it was significant. Some may call it a game changer and if nothing else, it was certainly polarizing. Whichever side of the line you land on with this, I’m not writing this week’s piece to make a political statement or to dictate my opinion. After all, this is a fashion blog. Additionally, my hair hasn’t started to turn “politically grey” yet (which seems to be a prerequisite for all political correspondents).

Forgive me for my candor, but once I’d stopped grinning like a moron (in response to the news, I try not to make it a habit of grinning like a moron)…

I couldn’t help but wonder, (and I feel I may not be alone in this query), given Obama’s new stance on gay marriage is he going to begin to dress better? Will a larger acceptance of the gay community also work to help expand his wardrobe? Will his closet begin to rival The First Lady’s in terms of style and size? Will he do for a hot young designer what Michelle Obama did for Jason Wu? I’m sure the President has an infinite number of black suits and collared shirts but will his newly open mind earn him some new designer friends? Not to say that his appearance is lacking, because it isn’t, but it could always get a bit haute-ier don’t you think?

Just food for thought.

He doesn’t have to take it this far, but he could.

May 7, 2012
By Sara Becker

The Black & White Ball is just around the corner and it is where I want to be. What could be better than an evening of dinner, drinks and dancing?

On June 2, the SF Symphony will play host to its annual Black & White Ball, which benefits the Symphony’s music education program.

Imagine the preparations that the party goers go through; weeks of searching for the perfect dress or suit and tie, making appointments for updos, spray tans, chemical peels (scary), manicures, pedicures, seaweed wraps and anything else to transform the residents of San Francisco into phosphorescent creatures of the night.

Frankly, I just want to put on one of the many ball gowns hanging in my closet (yes, I have more than one), buy a new pair of heels and dance the night away in a sea of beautiful people. It doesn’t sound so bad when I put it that way does it? If all of this makes you slightly nauseous I’d recommend skipping it and catching up on the society pictures when they’re printed, they’re always very entertaining.

This is what I’d like to wear to the ball (after all, someone has to wear color, thank you  Michael Kors):

April 30, 2012
By Sara Becker

The Jolly Roger, the grim reaper, punk rock, Dia de Los Muertos, Alexander McQueen, skulls, skulls, skulls. Wearing a skull, outside of your own, evokes a sense of rebellion; it hints that you might be someone who occupies their evenings in unorthodox ways, honoring the dead or a pirate. A skull transmits a certain edge and mystery to its wearer.

Following Alexander McQueen’s death in February of 2010 everyone seemed to don the designer’s clothes in a show of mourning and as a tribute to his genius.

Since then, the need to wear a big sticker proclaiming, “this is by Alexander McQueen” has somewhat diminished. In the past two years I’ve only noticed a few people here or there wearing his skull scarf. Over the past week there was a strange resurgence of the famous scarf; it seemed to have attained omnipresence in San Francisco.

Seeing multiple people wearing his scarf or imitations of his scarf only makes me wonder what the push is all about? Has someone secretly announced that it is now officially time again for the skull scarf? Maybe Anna Wintour has the answer to this, maybe not.

Bottom line, his scarves are beautiful. And, if you don’t mind spending $295 to cloak your throat in silk skulls then I say go for it.