Mocha Bride magazine has finally hit the shelves and has already sold out in two Walgreens stores! I was pleasantly surprised to see that I was on the cover. This is my very first magazine cover and I’m excited that things are headed in the right direction. It’s a little strange to see my picture on the front, but I am very grateful.

Besides the magazine, modeling in the Bay Area has been pretty slow. I recently talked to my agent about reaching out to other markets during slow times. We are in the process of looking into signing with an agency in South Africa and possibly spending some time there. This would be an amazing experience. To finally stay a month or more in a country I’ve longed to visit. This would also be a great way for me to build my book with published work and come back to the States with more experience and a bit of an edge. The opportunity couldn’t be more on time!

Written by: Erin Leeper

Click here to read more of “The Model Life of Erin”

Lookin’ for a job? Well you’re in luck! We have two that may suit you!

Factory PR is looking to hire for a NEW POSITION in the Progressive Designer/Contemporary Women’s Division:

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE - To report to the Women’s Account Supervisor, Saba Ebrahimi. The ideal candidate will have:

·Three to four years experience in Fashion PR - New York-based Fashion PR Agency (NECESSARY)
·Strong communication skills
·Exemplary media contacts with Market Editors and Features Editors
·Proven feature pitching abilities
·Solid contacts for celebrity dressing
·Experience running events
·A proactive, positive and energetic approach
·An innate interest in fashion media and pop culture

Factory PR is a Fashion PR Agency incorporating Women’s and Men’s Fashion and Accessories Divisions that has been operational for eight years. Based in Soho New York, we cater to International and American Contemporary Sportswear, Progressive Designer and Retail brands.

Please send an email resume to: angela@factorypr.com
NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.
www.factorypr.com

Follow the jump to view the second job posting.
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BPCM a fashion, beauty and luxury goods PR company with offices in NY, LA, London and Paris is looking for a account executive to start ASAP. The person needs to have at least 3-4 years solid account experience in the industry, be well connected with fashion and accessories editors and have taken care of their own accounts as well as manage a team beneath them. Candidate will work on 3-4- accounts with support staff.

Responsibilities include:

· Account strategizing and drafting of press materials- PR plans, press releases, media alerts, bios, etc.
· Client Pitching- long and short lead print features and editorial, as well as broadcast, internet and social media
· Maintain aggressive account activity, results oriented
· Existing editor, producer, and blogger relationships and proven track record of strong media placements
· Excellent writing skills
· Experience working on fashion shows and special events

Please send resume, along with editor references and writing samples to: Mary@bpcm.com
Salary is based on experience
Full benefit package
NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.
For more information visit: www.bpcm.com

Although we love The Sartorialist and similar street style blogs, we are looking for a person who is cut from the same cloth as Tommy Ton of JakAndJil who takes pics for Style.com. You can also look at the work from “On the Street” a segment of street style in the New York Times by photographer Bill Cunningham.

We want a photographer who spots trends and the unique details of fashion on the street - and knows how to take a really good picture of it. We aren’t just looking for cool pictures of a girl who looks pretty. We want context!!!

So if you are interested in becoming the FSD photoblogger, read the requirements:

1.) You must be a current student or an alumni of the school.
2.) You do not need to be in San Francisco Bay Area to apply. If you are an online student in Tokyo, we definitely want to see what you have to bring to the table.
3.) You must be able to write a little blurb to accompany your pictures. Tell us why this picture is relevant. What made it catch your eye? You can also go beyond that and create a slideshow like Bill Cunningham.
4.) You must be able to meet deadlines and turn in a post on a weekly basis.
5.) Have an eye for details and distinct style.
6.) Have knowledge of fashion.

If you are interested please send us a brief bio as well as samples of your work. In addition, send us THREE street style photos along with a brief explanation of each.

Please submit all your material to fashionschooldaily@gmail.com by 5 p.m. Friday, March 19, 2010. You will be contacted if you’re the chosen one!

Now go out there and take some cool pictures!

Forget Alice and her kid-friendly trippy Wonderland - it’s all about The Runaways.

The movie doesn’t come out until March 19, but mark it in your calendar. Mark it now.

The Real Runaways

The Hollywood Runaways

If you haven’t heard about it already, it is partly a “coming-of-age” story and stars Twilight diva Kristen Stewart and Dakota “she’s-to-good-of-an-actor-for-her age” Fanning. The rock biopic follows the start, the rise and the fall of ’70s the first all-girl rock band that included Joan Jett and Cherie Currie. It’s pretty darn gritty, rebellious, anarchic and grimy - and that makes it a lot of fun!

Check out the movie trailer after the jump:

And please note the intense platforms, heavy eye makeup, skintight jumpsuits, glossy lips, rouge-streaked cheeks, feathered hair, and ’70s-soaked Bowie androgyny. That’s not too far off from what we’re seeing today.

Are you going to see the film? What are your thoughts?

Runway coverage:

Sabah’s interview:

Kevin Christiana’s interview:

Mickey Boardman’s interview:

For more on Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week click here

Starting today and continuing through March 14, you can donate your old jeans that are taking up space in your closet to Gap stores (that includes some San Francisco Bay Area stores). Those jeans will be turned into UltraTouch Natural Cotton Fiber Insulation and given to communities who need it. That’s why the initiative is called “From blue to green” - get it? Denim is blue. Green is eco!

As an added bonus, people who donate their old jeans will receive a 30 percent discount on new denim purchases including their 1969 Premium jeans.

For complete details on this special event, visit www.CottonFromBluetoGreen.org.

Calling all fashion students! If you haven’t signed up for Beyond The Front Row fashion club, there is still time!

March is especially a good month to get involved. On March 6, the club will be hosting their National Community Service Day with two events. The first being The National Odd Shoe Exchange starting at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday March 6 in 180 New Montgomery room 713. Members will be packing up shoes and donating to women and men that have an unfortunate disability and are only able to work with one leg.

The second is a with the children’s boutique and fashion school Wee Scotty. Our members will offer their fashion illustrating and sewing advice to the adorable young ones of Wee Scotty. If you are interested, meet in front of 180 New Montgomery at 10 a.m. and we will take the shuttle to the Concourse Exhibition Center at 8th Street & Brannan.

If you can’t make any of those, stop by our meeting at 7 p.m. on March 11. The meeting will take place at Morgan Auditorium (491 Post Street).

If any of these events interest you don’t think twice! Come join BTFR because each event and project is contributing to a good cause - plus, it’s really fun!

Written by: Bridget Reed, Beyond the Front Row secretary

Tia Walker a blogger for her site The Quest For “It” made a snazzy little video featuring our designers backstage before the show:

She also gave Fashion School Daily a shout out on her website!

For more of our Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week news click here

Focus On Your Closet: Spring Cleaning Begins!
Give 2, Take 1
Start cleaning out your closets and setting aside clothes and accessories for the April 17th clothing swap and clothing drive hosted by Beyond the Front Row (fashion club) and the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco. This event, Give 2, Take 1 (“G2T1”), will function as a fundraiser for the club, and a charitable clothing-drive for St. Vincent’s community programs.

Here’s the deal: for every 2 items donated, donors get to take (or ‘swap’) 1 item in return - hence the name “Give 2, Take 1”. All items remaining at the end of the April 17th swap will be donated to St. Vincent’s. This fun sustainable–charitable event also happens to coincide with Earth Day! Collection of donations begins the last week of March, on campus and elsewhere. Details to follow.
Please note: Clothing and accessories donations will happily be accepted, regardless of participation in the clothing swap. St. Vincent’s is in urgent need of men’s clothing - additional donations from the closets of boyfriends, husbands, brothers, and sons would be greatly appreciated!
Now accepting donations of: coat hangers and shopping bags at 180 New Montgomery, office #704.

Open House / Open Studio
Saturday March 6, 2010
180 New Montgomery - 9:00am - 5:00pm
Meet, greet, and host prospective School of Fashion students (and their parents) as they tour the MFA Studio and the 7th Floor. *Beyond the Front Row will be organizing shoe donations in room 713 from 8:30am - 11:00am; please consider including this community service project as part of your tour (see below for more information).

Community Service Day Projects from Beyond the Front Row
Saturday, March 6, 2010 (2 events)

National Odd Shoe Exchange
180 New Montgomery, Room 713, 8:30am - 11:30am
At last month’s Shoe-In fashion club members voted to donate all the shoes collected and used for the holiday “shoe-tree” project to the National Odd Shoe Exchange, www.oddshoe.org This non-profit organization supplies single shoes, as well as pairs of different-sized shoes, to those in need due to injury, disease and/or genetic disorders. BTFR club members will be sorting, organizing and preparing to ship the shoes to the National Odd Shoe Exchange during the Open House / Open Studio (room 713).

Wee Scotty
Concourse Exhibition Center at 8th Street & Brannan, 10:00am - 3:00pm
Beyond the Front Row members offer their sewing, construction and fashion illustration skills to assist some of the young Wee Scotty designers (ages 7+) and Wee Scotty proprietors with demonstrations for the community exhibition.

For more events follow the jump.

Beyond the Front Row’s General Meeting
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Morgan Auditorium at 491 Post Street 7:00pm
Where Style Meets Substance. Greet other members. Learn about the club, the events, and opportunities to volunteer. Membership sign-up is still available ($10 annually) and is open to all University students. **Students attending the meeting are eligible to win a pair of their own custom-made jeans from Indi Denim.
**Last chance for students to reserve tickets for the Ruby Skye social mixer and fashion show (see info below);
all other ticket sales are at the door on March 18th.

Guest Lecture: “Power of Japanese Fashion: Tradition and Innovation”
Presented by Ms. Akiko Fukai, Director and Chief Curator of the Kyoto Costume Institute (Japan)
Monday, March 15, 2010
(due to space limitations: selected classes only)
The subject of Ms. Fukai’s lecture is twofold, aiming to introduce the underlying culture and aesthetics of contemporary Japanese fashion designers, and to review their influence on global styles. As a result of her extensive research on the relationship between fashion and Japonism, Ms. Fukai has received multiple awards, including the 2008 Commissioner for Cultural Affairs (Japan), and is the author/editor of several books: Japonism in Fashion (Heibonsha, 1994); Fashion (Taschen, 2002); The Century of Fashion (Heibonsha, 2005); and Reading Fashion from Pictures (PHP Institute, 2009).

FYI for students
Beyond the Front Row’s Spring Social Mixer and Fashion Show
Ruby Skye at 420 Mason Street, San Francisco
Thursday, March 18, 2010 from 9:00pm - 1:30am (ages 18+ with valid ID) fashion show is at 10:00pm
$20.00 ($5.00 fundraiser per ticket for Beyond the Front Row)
Hosted by Beyond the Front Row and Ruby Skye in association with Picky Studio (clothing)
Join club members and friends for this semester’s first major social event! Student fashionistas rock the runway in Picky Studio style. Live DJs, dancing, fashion, and fun.
Check the Facebook page for additional details and ticket sales info: www.facebook.com/BeyondtheFrontRow