BARE Magazine Launches i7

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Calling all Berkeley fashionistas and beyond! Tonight UC Berkeley's premier fashion and lifestyle publication, BARE Magazine, is celebrating the release of their issue 7.

This coming issue is all about fiction and its large part in fashion. BARE explores the growing phenomenon of androgyny, pays homage to the influential and creative works of the late Alexander McQueen, and experiments with the ubiquitous fairy tales and type-scenes. BARE's photoshoots and interviews strive to collaborate with more local talent (San Franciscian Cari Borja is featured in "A Class of Their Own") and take advantage of what the Bay Area has to offer. In short, BARE's seventh issue investigates the relationship between fantasy and accessibility. We feel that this theme is especially resilient today in the fashion industry and made sure viewers will be swept off their feet.
John Kim, BARE Magazine Editor in Chief

Come celebrate with us tonight!
BARE Magazine i7 Launch Party
May 6th, 2010
9-12pm
Hotel Durant

Fresh copies of i7 will be available at the launch, the CAL student store and online here.

BARE Magazine i6

Jonathan Deniol Rodriguez: BARE Managing Director with Jordan Silver: BARE Creative Director

Jordan with Nancy Kim: BARE Market Director

me and John Kim: BARE Editor-in-Chief

Brittany Curran: BARE Blogger

Had to sneak in a shot with the boyf

Me and Jordan

BARE Model

And after the event was over, the fun continued with mustaches and homemade masks...

Can't wait til next issue!

Next in Line

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When I was five years old my mom and I plopped on the couch for our Friday night pizza and a movie and she put on My Fair Lady. From that instant on, I was obsessed with Audrey Hepburn. I spent each Friday after that scouring Blockbuster to find a new Audrey film I had yet to see. I learned every song, every line until I had Audrey down. Still to this day classic movie stills hang in my closet to inspire me with her quirky grace and poise.
When I was seven years old my mom and I plopped on the couch for our Friday night pizza and a movie and she put on The Professional. Surely I was too young to see such a film, but I suppose she didn't mind too much. That was when I first saw Natalie Portman. She was maybe 12 years old, skinny and lanky with a dark brown bob--just like me! I thought she was the epitome of cool.
As time as passed, I've seen more and more correlations between these two actresses leaving me to the conclusion that Natalie Portman is the closest thing we'll ever have to another Audrey Hepburn. Now, you may care to disagree, but I think that together, these women represent the essence of classy cool.

On a completely different note, I am looking to add some new features to Dirty Laundry so stay tuned! Until then, you can check out s'more DL here.

SF Fashion Awards

Karen Kwok, BARE Magazine Blog Editor--and nominee for Best Blogger

The venue: The Phoenix Hotel

Loved his Jil Sander pants, had to share!

Cute attendees

Designs by Kittinhawk

Designs by Kittinhawk

Designs by Kittinhawk

(by far my favorite designer of the show!)

The 2nd Annual San Francisco Fashion Awards took place last Sunday, July 27th at The Phoenix Hotel in San Francisco and yours truly was in attendance to bring you some of the Bay Area's fashion talent. It was hosted poolside with a DJ, live music, trunk vendors, shady cabana's as well an indoor and outdoor bar to help warm us up against the breezy SF weather! The Awards started off with a runway show featuring:

Alexandria Von Bromssen
Andrew Wedge
Candice Soutas
Carly Mikkelson
Chihiro Imamura
Cindy Vo
Julia Meeks
Kara Krauss / Ke Designs
Kittinhawk
Sarah Baker
Sarah Thomas
Wayne Hwang
Yvonne Quinones

But took a break during the show to announce the winners for the following awards:

Best Fashion Designer

Best Costume Designer

Best Male Runway Model

Best Female Runway Model

Best Fashion Event

Best Stylist

Best Event Producer

Best Store Front--Upper Playground

Best Blogger

Best Accessories/Jewelry Designer

Best Model

Best Hair/Makeup Artist

Best Photographer

Best Fashionable DJ

It was hard to hear the line up order for the runway show as well as for the winners of the event but I will update this post as the winner's are announced!