PeopleWearSF

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)

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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.

PeopleWearSF Board members Steven Pinsky and Lana Hogue have been part of a group meeting with the Mayor Lee and Todd Rufo, Director of Business Development in SF. PeopleWearSF member Kevin Coker of Weston Wear led the discussion by proposing apparel industry-related items for the City of San Francisco to help support local apparel manufacturing. The group included sewing contractors National Apparel and Sky Blue, manufacturers ISDA, Nice Collective, Cut Loose,and SF Made Executive Director Kate Sofis. A third meeting is planned to address a list of suggestions that will support current industry manufacturing and encourage the development of sewing industry expansion. Watch for updates.

Local manufacturing, focused on a specific location, is a great way to market your business. SFMade, a non-profit founded by Mark Dwight (Rickshaw Bags, SFMade), has pioneered this concept and assembled a great team to help support new businesses that are “SFMade”. Many apparel companies and start-ups are working with SFMade, and PeopleWearSF supports all efforts to engage and expand a new apparel manufacturing industry in San Francisco, as well as the Bay Area.  PeopleWearSF looks forward to networking the local apparel and other sewn products industries together. Join us on Thursday evening, August 18, at ISDA, in South Park, San Francisco, to meet Bay Area and SF apparel industry professionals.  Gail Baugh, President, PeopleWearSF

View video of President Clinton Recognizing SFMade’s Urban Manufacturing Alliance

Gail Baugh, PeopleWear SF president, just returned from the 3rd International FibreRecycling Symposium at the University of Bolton, near Manchester, UK, June 15 & 16,2011. She presented her paper, “Exploring San Francisco/Bay Area Consumers’ApparelPurchasing and Discarding Choices.” The study, based in San Francisco, confirmed SF consumers are choosing to purchase and wear previously worn clothing, both for environmental reasons and also for lifestyle choice. Part of the conclusion from the study found that new business models for fashion businesses could be developed,based on existing clothing and other textiles locally available, rather than businessmodels that required only new fabrics and clothing for retail sale. Information aboutthis important work on fiber recycling for the future apparel and textile industry is at the website: http://www.bolton.ac.uk/IMRI/Symposium/Home.aspx or contact Gail atgailbaugh40@gmail.com.

California College of the Arts is offering for the first time ever, ground breakingprofessional development workshop series. Our upcoming workshop will run 8/4 -8/6/11 (applications/register on line cca.edu/academics/fashion-sustainability).

We are excited to announce that we have added a professional development seriesof workshops to help bring sustainability knowledge to the working pro. In justthree days you will learn ways to address and implement WASTE reduction in yourpractice/company.

The Fashion Sustainability Workshop Series is beginning w/ the WASTE workshopthis summer. WASTE Management directly addresses the bottom line.

Questions: email me amywilliams@cca.edu. Member of PeopleWear SF Amy Williams CCA Fashion Design Chair and Director of CCA’s FashionSustainability Workshop Program