Arts & Entertainment You Can Only Wash Google And Levi's New $350 'Connected' Jacket Ten Times Google's announcement of their sartorial collaboration with Levi's — a "connected" jacket that integrates basic smartphone functions — was met Monday with countless glowing headlines heralding it as the garment of the future. And the
SF News Nest Video Nabs Shamed Shoplifter, Who Promptly Returns Stolen Goods and Cash So much for my conspiracy theory that Google’s Nest devices are just creepy IoT surveillance technologies with marginal consumer upside. One marginal consumer got symbolically smacked upside by the video-sharing social media
Arts & Entertainment London Designer Sends Anti-Twitter Sentiment Down The Runway Need of the hour! More glitter less Twitter! #Ashish #LFW pic.twitter.com/6agZ4yJanF— Manish Mishra (@dandydujour) February 21, 2017 Like the hours after 5 p.m., it feels like it is always
Arts & Entertainment Hot Felon Jeremy Meeks Walks Runway For Madonna, Kylie Jenner, And Tiffany Trump The Horatio Alger story (that is, if Ragged Dick were about a 32-year-old alleged member of the Northside Gangster Crips instead of a frugal and virtuous teen) that is the life of NorCal
SF News Closing Date For San Francisco American Apparel Stores Unknown When news broke that long-struggling clothing manufacturer American Apparel had been sold, it was a safe assumption that their business would face big changes — changes that will shutter the LA-based company's 110 retail
Arts & Entertainment 'The Fashion of Islam' Coming To The De Young As the year draws to a close, de Young Director Max Hollein is providing a sneak peek at what lies ahead for the San Francisco art museum. The New York Times reports that
SF News Fashion Dreams And Style Nightmares From Silicon Valley Fashion Week 2016 It's a Silicon Valley stereotype that putting on pants to go to work is considered a fashion statement. Though that assumption is at odds with the plenty of stylish San Franciscans you probably
Arts & Entertainment Regarding The Art And High Style Of Mr. David, Couturier To The Drag Stars You aren't going to find Mr. David's clothes on a sale rack, ever. But last week, two decades of daily work putting handmade fashions on local drag queen Juanita MORE! and a bevy
SF News SF Vintage Shop Raided For Selling Illegal 'Animal Parts' A Haight Street vintage clothing shop(pe) remains closed today after the California Department of Fish and Wildlife acted on an anonymous tip and discovered illegal animal products on sale. Decades of Fashion,
Arts & Entertainment These Levi's Wedgie-Fit Jeans Aren't A (Intentional) Joke San Francisco-based Levi Strauss & Co is well known for human rights and labor crimes allegedly perpetrated in the factories that create their goods. And now they've chosen a new target for exploitation
Arts & Entertainment Cam Newton Has Arrived In The Bay Area And His Pants Are Fire Cam Newton’s style statement en route to #SB50. https://t.co/NipQubnl48 pic.twitter.com/T9SyCkjU5W— Dave Enna (@Dave_Enna) January 31, 2016 Panthers quarterback Cam Newton puts his pants on just
Arts & Entertainment From 'Basic Gays' To 'Jocks': Photographer Hal Fischer Rereleases His '70s Tome <em>Gay Semiotics</em> Before you or I or anyone in San Francisco for that matter could spot a bear blocks away in SoMa, there was the revelation of Hal Fischer's Gay Semiotics: A Photographic Study of
Arts & Entertainment SF's 13 Best Local Fashion Labels While San Francisco is still a far cry from being a fashion capital, we are hardly without fashion sense (ahem, New York Magazine and your superiority of 2014). And in our booming economy
Arts & Entertainment Are Flip-Flops OK In San Francisco? This is an important question, ladies and gentlemen: When and where are flip-flops an acceptable fashion choice in San Francisco, if ever at all? With our recent influx of newcomers, it's a question
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Chef Pushes Back Against Bros Who Don't Know How To Dress For Dinner It should go without saying, even in hyper-casual San Francisco, that you dress one way to go to Tacolicious and you dress another way to go to Gary Danko. Sure, nobody at Saison
Arts & Entertainment SF Giants Unveil New Black Jerseys For 2015 Season It takes more than a single home and away uniform to suit the reigning World Series Champion SF Giants! It actually takes five jerseys to outfit our guys in style, the Giants revealed
Arts & Entertainment Video: The 'Free Your Thighs' Guys Behind 'Chubbies' Shorts "Sky's out, thighs out" is the motto of the four-year-old men's shorts startup Chubbies, started by some bros who were pals at Stanford. Forbes profiled them last year, and here, they're interviewed at
Arts & Entertainment 10 Best Places To Buy A Suit In San Francisco This may be San Francisco, where everyone's been eagerly awaiting the day sweatpants became fashionable (and they did), and where the tech industry's traditional uniform has always been jeans and a t-shirt, but
Arts & Entertainment Golden State Warriors Take Over Twitter HQ To Unveil New Uniforms That Look Like Trash Bags Nailed it, @warriors. pic.twitter.com/4X0OopuwH3— #FreeBillSimmons (@JohnxDiaz) September 29, 2014 When a team wants to show off their new uniforms, there's typically a press conference, with print, broadcast, and online all
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Apple's 1986 Clothing Line, and Siskel & Ebert Reviewing 1986 Apple Ads The Apple corporation was just coming into its own in 1986, and visionary co-founder Steve Jobs had already begun putting out the sort of cinematic commercials that movie critics like Roger Ebert and
Arts & Entertainment Video: 1980s High School Kids Really Sounded Like John Hughes Characters This marvelous video surfaced today thanks to BuzzFeed (despite being uploaded seven years ago), and it's a fashion survey of seven students at Antioch High School in Northern California in 1984, made by
SF News Apple Makes Big Hires From Fashion World In Preparation For (Probable) iWatch Launch Apple has just made its third of three big personnel additions, poaching some high-profile people from the fashion and luxury accessories industries in what is likely a sign that it's gearing up for
SF News Christian Dior To Open Massive Flagship Store In Union Square The storied (and, in recent years, scandal-beset) high-end fashion retailer Christian Dior on Tuesday announced that they will be opening a 10,000 square foot flagship store in San Francisco's Union Square. According
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera To Hawk Original Costumes This Weekend Boasting outfits ideal for hanging out at Bender's in the Mission or walking through the TL at 3AM, the San Francisco Opera will, for the fifth time in its history, sell costumes from
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