Remember to keep Friday, September 3rd open! Legendary British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes, CBE will be joining Gladys Perint Palmer for her presentation on the Paris Haute Couture Fall ’10 / Winter ’11 collection starting at 3:30 p.m. at Morgan Auditorium (491 Post Street).

Zandra will share her photos, inspiration, and design process for the costumes she created for the 2010 opening season of the San Francisco Opera’s Aida.

This past Sunday, Gladys went the the technical rehearsal for Aida to visit Zandra and her gorgeous designs — here she is hard at work:

And here is Gladys Perint Palmer and Zandra Rhodes after the rehearsal. As you can see, they are still hanging in there!

The famous New York Dandy Patrick McDonald (who is also a front row staple at our New York Fashion Week Show) was recently featured in a book illustrated by Jim Howard titled “Four Famous Dandies” which puts him next to punch-out versions of the dandies of yore Beau Brummell, Oscar Wilde, and the Duke of Windsor.

This is pretty darn cool! What better way to reincarnate the enjoyment of paper dolls? Who says print is a dying art?

Sources: SFLuxe.com, PaperStudioPress.com

The School of Fashion would like to thank Somer Flaherty, editor at Marin Magazine, for including a design by Stephanie Tan, BFA Fashion Design, in the magazine’s fall fashion spread.

Here is a behind-the-scenes video of the shoot:

The design by Stephanie Tan used in Marin Magazine

To see the collection from the May Graduation Fashion Show and Awards Ceremony click here.

SF Indie Fashion, a web site and blog devoted to San Francisco’s thriving independent, local fashion community, is looking for a media-savvy fall intern.

Ideal qualifications:
- Previous journalism and writing experience
- Comfortable reporting on events and conducting in-person, phone and email interviews in a professional, timely manner
- Ability to turn around a minimum of two or more assignments per week. Must be able to do this reliably.
- Lives in San Francisco and able to attend multiple local fashion events each week, usually in the evenings (being 21+ is a big help with this)
- Additional media skills, including previous video, photography, graphic design and/or social media and experience
- Experience with or interest in learning wordpress or another blogging content management system
- An interest in the role of small, local businesses and independent designers to the larger San Francisco fashion community

Why you’d want to intern for SF Indie Fashion:

- Hands-on experience reporting, writing and covering fashion events
- The chance to work with a local fashion writer/editor who will help you improve and hone your writing, editing and media skills
- A great deal of freedom to be creative
- Media access to local fashion events, shows, sales, etc.
- The chance to network with key players in the San Francisco fashion industry
- The opportunity to develop a portfolio of clips, media samples you can use in the future
- A chance to immerse yourself in the local fashion scene
- Learn blogging and social media skills

The ideal intern will be able to attend fashion events and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis and turn them into interesting, well-written, insightful features for SF Indie Fashion under the guidance of the site’s founder and editor.

Interns need to be able to attend at least one weekly meeting at SF Indie Fashion headquarters in the Mission to discuss assignments and go over story edits. Other work will be done remotely.

Journalism and writing instruction will be offered to intern during the course of the internship, but basic writing and journalism skills – not to mention decent grammar – are required.

Note: We may also be looking specifically for a photography and/or video intern this fall. If that’s your skill set, please feel free to be in touch.

To apply, please send your resume, a writing sample and an email outlining your interest in the internship to lsanders@sfindiefashion.com.

On Friday, September 17th BFA and MFA students will present garments in a fashion show at the de Young Museum’s event “Mexico 2010″ which will honor the country’s artistic creativity. Here’s a preview of the garments that will be featured:

The event is a part of the museum’s “Friday Night Soirées” programming so make sure you keep Sept. 17th open (from 5 to 8:45 p.m.) For more info the de Young museum’s website. Did we mention the event is free?

On Friday, September 3rd 3:30pm Gladys Perint Palmer will report on the Haute Couture Fall ’10 / Winter ’11 collections in Paris – her photos, her observations, her illustrations at Morgan Auditorium (491 Post Street).

As an added bonus, special guest and legendary British fashion designer, Zandra Rhodes, CBE will be visiting our fashion school and joining Gladys for the presentation. She will share her photos, inspiration, and design process for the costumes she created exclusively for the 2010 opening season of the San Francisco Opera’s Aida.

It’s good to know that those who appear so extraordinarily stylish on our computer screens can live up to their reputations as kings and queens of the cloth In Real Life. Cocktails were gobbled, cameras flashed, and the guests spilled out onto the sidewalk - in short, it was a roaring success!

Photos and words by: Laura Reilly

Click here for more of “Laura’s Lens”

LookBook.nu [Official Website]
Nasty Gal [Official Website]

Camilla Olson, M.F.A. Fashion Design
Residence: Palo Alto, California
Materials: silk faille, silk chiffon, silk habotai, silk organza

With a B.S. in Microbiology and a M.B.A. in Marketing, Camilla patented several products and founded five companies before pursuing her M.F.A. at the Academy. She participated in the LVMH Creative Briefing Design Challenge this summer. Inspired by the movie “Blade Runner” and samurai arts, Camilla’s collection represents women as rebels breaking the restrictions of their historically constrained roles. The soft silk under-dresses represent a woman’s inner nature and the outer ‘cage’ is her strength and armor.

For more info about our New York Fashion Week show, click here.

La Barbe, from the Latin Barba, is a beard in English.

In the 15th Century, King Edward IV of France was also king of England. He tried to impose a tax on beards and nearly lost both crowns.

Later, King Henri III of France (1551-1553) banned beards. His brother Henri IV (1553-1610) permitted them.

Earlier, in the Fourteenth Century a barbe (no, not a Barbie doll) was a linen ‘beard’. Only a queen’s barbe was permitted to cover her chin; a baroness’s barbe had to remain below her chin.

You may have noticed, beards are back, mostly on men.

I must admit, I am a bit bored with beards.

Here are a few suggestions to liven up facial hair:

Another suggestion: a sharp razor.

Written by: Gladys Perint Palmer

Click here to read more of “Picture This” by GPP

For all of you students who are in San Francisco (and all of you online students who plan on visiting), you might want to check out a newest addition to the swanky shopping street called Maiden Lane located in the Union Square area.

Owner Michael Kelter appropriately called his new shopping destination Downtown and it has been causing a buzz as the next hot spot for fashion forward goods — and the fact that it has a lounge and alteration services doesn’t hurt either.

The boutique was recently featured in New York Times’s T Magazine — which makes it even extra cool (click here to read the article). It gets even more bonus points for being housed in a former brothel.

Downtown [Official Website]