Designer Reviews

Birdies Footwear

Birdies Shoes: Flying to the Top

Gates co-founded Birdies, the San Francisco-based shoe company, with her friend Marissa Sharkey. The company’s original concept was comfortable, stylish shoes one can wear while hosting a fashionable dinner party: flats as comfy as slippers. They built the company as young women, holding full-time jobs and without experience in the field.

Naeem Khan: The Alchemist of Dreams

It’s easy to believe in magic and synchronicity after spending time with the world-renowned fashion designer and artist Naeem Khan. His life story reads like a fairytale entwined with a historical novel.…

Haute Profile: Georgene Rada of Briggs & Riley

Redefining baggage through innovative design and technology In 2008, San Francisco International Airport invested $383 million to renovate Terminal Two. At the time, it was home to the new Virgin America airline.…

A Creative Life: Jonathan Rachman Talks Fashion and Design

A multi-hyphened creative, interior designer, event planner to the elite, renowned dapper dresser, owner of Jonathan Rachman Designs, and maven of style and grace, Rachman now adds author to his repertoire with…

RODARTE

Exclusive Interview with Northern Californian Sisters Rocking the Fashion Industry Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s journey into the world of fashion has been an unusual trip down a rabbit hole to a place…

San Francisco Based SENREVE is an International Sensation

The wildly popular handbag brand, established locally by Coral Chung, has found a worldwide audience, with many a celebrity sporting its styles. SENREVE is a San Francisco based company, yet my introduction…

Meet Chanel’s New Artistic Director, Virginie Viard

Runway moments are the keystone of a designer’s success, and just as Gabrielle Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld broke boundaries in the iconic fashion house, Virginie Viard, the newest creative director for the…

Lily Samii

A woman of ingenuity who soared from the depths of adversity to grace center stage Woven like webs of featherweight silk, yet vehemently steadfast in their bonds, are the ties of family,…