Meet Thursday, May 17, at Sue Mills, Inc., 1830 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

See the flyer for more info!

Starting with red-carpet arrivals at the W Hotel SF, followed by a cocktail mixer with notable Bay Area designers, merchants, press & fashion elite, the evening will conclude with a curated Runway Show highlighting progressive Bay Area Designers.

The event will be live-stream broadcasted by media partner, Style Bistro with interview and publicity opportunities for attendees and designers.

The purpose of this event is to bridge designers and merchants to network, discover, and develop profitable business alliances. A Virtual Market will precede the fashion show, giving attendees the opportunity to access the work of talented Bay Area Designers.

Attending merchants will be given designer information materials such as lookbook photos, linesheets, purchasing and contact information in digital format to take away, provided by tech partner Shoppista.com.

Designers interested in being part of the event should contact the organizing committee with questions and to submit samples of their work, such as most recent linesheets or lookbook photos by February 3rd to:

committee@B2BfashionSF.com
or
B2BfashionSF
Attn: Teri Watts
28 Second St., 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105

Featured Sponsors include: Fashion Business, Inc., The W Hotel San Francisco, Style Bistro & Shoppista.

Please visit www.B2BfashionSF.com for updates.

PeopleWearSF is now 4 years old, and the need for a trade association that supports local apparel manufacturing as well as connecting the industry segments together is very clear. We just held our first networking party of the new year last week at Lynette Cayson’s Cayson  Culinary Designs. Her company hosted Mayor Lee as he announced the FashionSF Initiative last Oct. 26. The first FSF Initiative meeting was held Dec. 14, and there will be more details to follow in early 2012. We all know the apparel manufacturing industry is job-rich, and encouraging the growth of this industry locally will create opportunity for the next generation of designers, merchandisers, and local suppliers.

PeopleWearSF works in partnership with SFMade, a non-profit organization established to support any new business (including but not exclusively apparel-related) get started in SF. The SFMade founder’s business is sewing-related, but his goal in creating this organization is to support entrepreneurship in SF and growing business locally. PWSF supports SFMade’s work, and continues to offer support to new and existing apparel-related local manufacturing both in SF and the Bay Area.

Have a great new year!!

Gail Baugh, president

Register Now for the PeopleWearSF Networking Event
Cayson Culinary Design
15 Apparel Way (near Lowe’s on Bayshore) in San Francisco
January 19, 2012, 6 to 9 pm
Free for PWSF Members; $10 for non-Members
Plentiful street parking.

Gail Baugh, president, PeopleWearSF

read the full press release: 10.26.11-FashionSF-Initiative

PeopleWear SF is a organizing member of this FashionSF initiative, focused on supporting apparel manufacturing here in San Francisco. As the apparel industry’s trade association for both San Francisco and the Bay Area, it is our goal to promote the needs of our membership and the great good of the sewing manufacturing industry. This initiative has been well deserved, particularly for an industry that has deep roots in San Francisco. We look forward to future updates as the FashionSF Initiative working group implements its objectives.

Gail Baugh, president
PeopleWearSF

Cost is free for Members, $5 for Non-Members