fashion benefit

Coat with stud buttons by Rachel Rachel Roy, the designer’s new diffusion line, exclusively available at Macy’s this fall.

Photography courtesy of Macy’s

Plenty of local fashion-philes have been overheard lamenting their West Coast tethers in recent days, thanks to that special time of year in New York, but we’re happy to report that style salve for runway-deprived San Franciscans is on its way. 

The 27th annual Macy’s Passport benefit and fashion show takes place this week and, unlike the shows we’ve been drooling over in the Big Apple, this one is open to the public.

823 keys will be sold to provide a grant to one artist. Then the process begins anew.

Photography courtesy of 823KeyProject

And now we pause for a blast from the past. Remember pager codes? You know, the little numerical coded messages your slightly shady friend would receive from an equally-as-shady significant-other-du-jour via pager circa 1997? If you recall, popular abbreviated missives included 143, which stands for “I love you” in pager terminology, and 823, short for “thinking of you.”

The Pop Triple Disc Necklace by Pretty Little Thing

Photography courtesy of Pretty Little Thing

Should you find yourself downtown tomorrow quite in need of a midweek, San Francisco summer pick-me-up involving a great cause, good deals, mani pedi pampering and stylish finds from emerging designers, sidle on over to the Shop for Breast Cancer event taking place at the Embarcadero Center’s Vanity Beauty Lounge.

The fashion show will take place among the redwoods at the UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens.

Photography courtesy rskoon via Flickr

Whispers of “nice stems” and “check out the trunk on that one” at one Bay Area fashion event taking place this weekend are likely to have nothing to do with willowy models coming down the runway.

Menswear by Academy of Art University alum Chelsea Rae Snyder will be part of tonight’s show.

Photography courtesy of Del Geronimo via The Lab.

A sudden spate of disrobing at the corner of 16th and Capp Streets isn’t something we’d normally want to see on a Friday night, but leave it to The Lab to convince us otherwise.

gr.dano Designers Jill Giordano and Brian Scheyer with their Discarded to Divine design, now a part of their label's Fall/Winter '09 collection.

Photography courtesy of Discarded to Divine

One of San Francisco’s can’t-miss fashion events of the year takes place tomorrow night in SoMa. In case you’ve been trapped in a dressing room somewhere and haven’t heard the buzz (not likely, we know, but possible), the Discarded to Divine benefit held each year taps fashion designers to create garments from donated clothing and textiles and auctions the finished wearables off to raise much-needed funds for the St. Vincent de Paul Society’s programs aiding the poor and homeless. Recycled fashion? Design for a good cause?

Lavender romper by Reverie

Photography courtesy of Reverie

The Bay Area may not have a fashion week of its own these days, but one event taking place on the Peninsula this weekend hopes to pull off something close to it in the span of one evening.