Eleni is a Fabric Research & Development Manager who lives and works in San Francisco. Her sense of fashion is pretty unique, her clothes are a mix of vintage, handmade and designer items and lately she has started to reinvent part of her clothes through natural dyeing. Here’s her story: Can you tell me a…
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“I feel great seeing myself looking in the mirror as the character”
Corinne was surrounded by people when I tried to find out more about her costume. But people kept coming to take a picture of her or together with her. She eventually gave me her email to talk about her presence at The San Francisco Anime Festival that happened in July. What’s your story? My name…
“We are different for a reason, and I would never risk my passion for fashion to satisfy some strangers”
July 23th, 2019 * I saw Jupiter for the first time at Atlas, in Mission District, but I didn’t have the courage to talk to her. A few months later I saw her again in the same place, and asked without hesitation whether I could write about her and her relationship with clothing. Here’s Jupiter’s story….
“All my good memories are connected with this costume”
June 6th, 2019 * What’s your story? I was born in Los Angeles because my parents lived there at that time. When I was two, we moved to The Bay Area. I live now in San Jose. When did you start dancing? From age five, my parents placed us, me and my sister, in Indian…
“I’m wearing this vest for the first time in public”
May 24th, 2019 * I saw his vest in the crowd at the Fashion Graduation Show, organized by the Academy of Art University. At the end of the show, I followed him outside to find out his story. Rodrigo moved from Bolivia to San Francisco a couple of years ago, and he has inherited his…
“When I first saw it, I didn’t know if I was gonna like that costume because it was so different than the ones I was used to in my childhood”
May 18th, 2019 * She was leaning on a backstage fence, looking ahead, preparing her body for a dance that was part of Cinco de Mayo – an annual event that celebrates the Mexican-American culture in the Mission neighborhood. She was beautiful, her body posture was impeccable and I just kept staring at her. I…
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