PeopleWearSF

Happy New Year, 2012, and Gung Hey Fat Choi, Year of the Dragon!! This year will be an awesome year as PeopleWearSF continues to deepen its ability to support the local apparel manufacturing industry in the SF/Bay Area. One of our top priorities is to offer a job board online for local industry. It is intended to connect apparel-related job openings with local job-seekers, both industry-experienced and new graduates.

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

Cayson and PeopleWearSF invite the industry to celebrate and grow

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.

The State of California is moving toward a new category of corporate structure:  The “do good” business organization that can make a profit and make a difference. This concept has great meaning to the apparel and sewn products manufacturing industry in SF and the Bay Area, as companies evaluate what are their business priorities, and discover news ways to structure their business. At PeopleWear SF we’ve noticed the continued questions about how to do good, yet make a living. Learn more about this important new law for our San Francisco/Bay Area businesses, particularly with the mayor’s FashionSF initative!! More

Gail Baugh, president, PeopleWearSF

Here is the presentation by William Garnsey from this evening’s event at Welcome Stranger in San Francisco. Five-Fundamentals-for-Managing-a-Small-Business-Web

Mayor Edwin M. Lee today launched FashionSF, a new economic development initiative focused on supporting the retention and growth of apparel manufacturers and fashion designers in San Francisco.

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

to RSVP for our “PeopleWearSF and Friends” event at Welcome Stranger on November 3rd from 6-9 PM, please email William Garnsey (PeopleWearSF E-Commerce Chair) at wgarnsey@gmail.com

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

Please join PeopleWearSF and friends on November 3rd
Connect with the local SF Bay Area/Northern California apparel industry. Mingle with the best and brightest. Make a new contact, learn something new, have a laugh or two. Our last networking event at ISDA & Co. was such a success that we’ve already planned another just like the other! Please plan to join us.

Join Us on November 3rd at Welcome Stranger

California College of Art Fashion Director and PeopleWear SF member, Amy Williams, is announcing a fabulous opportunity to meet an innovative designer, who has developed a method of design using draping, cutting and ribbon insertion to create a shaped garment. This effort is yet another inspiration in the effort to create new methods of apparel design, which is a form of sculpture, producing a 3-dimensional structure from a 2-dimensional surface. Please try to attend this event.

THE RIBBON SKIRT with Shingo Sato (Poster)

click here for full details

Gail Baugh, PeopleWear SF president

PeopleWearSF member Amy Williams, Fashion Design Chair at the California College of the Arts, and Diane Green, Fashion Department Chair at SF Community College (whose college is also a PeopleWear SF member) are on the Board of Directors of this innovative approach to encouraging fashion designers to create their vision in San Francisco. PeopleWear SF can provide manufacturing support when needed, particularly as the designers plan small lot manufacturing. We applaud this new non-profit, “Fashionincubator San Francisco”, at Macy’s Union Square, for their effort to encourage new designers by providing workshop space and business operations training. Here are the contacts to learn more about this valuable contribution to the new fashion industry in SF:

Financial contribution:  dconaghan@sfced.org, Dennis Conaghan, Board President, and Executive Director for SF Center for Economic Development
Business training: amywilliams@cca.edu, Board Member
Other questions/contributions:  Betsy.Nelson@macys.com, Board Vice President, VP, Media Relations & Cause Marketing for Macy’s Northwest & Southwest Regions, Macy’s, Inc.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/10/LVP61K4HLH.DTL

Designer applications, for the first group of six designers, are being accepted in September, 2011, for a year-long training beginning 1st quarter, 2012.