Allison Speer, Michael Smith, Vanessa Getty

Michael Smith’s Hedges with an Artful Book

Michael Smith’s boss was in town for dinner, but that didn’t stop him from meeting a few friends for cocktails. While POTUS was wowing them chez Steyer/Steinmetz in Seacliff and and joining the glams at the Gettys, the Oval Office designer Smith was introducing his new book at Hedge Gallery in Jackson Square. The elegant…

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Z Space Theater Goes Down Into The Precipice

San Francisco’s underground arts scene just went literal, as the acclaimed experimental Z Space theater annexed the adjacent subterranean black box theater, now called Z Below. A soiree to inaugurate the stage brought out many of the Bay Area’s leading lights and ladies to check out the spot, the sound, and (invariably) one another. Previously…

Modewalk.com's Spring Fashion Show and Luncheon

Modewalk Invites You Into Their Boudoir

Couture shopping online would have been dismissed as an oxymoron a decade ago, now cyber-shopping is the norm. High-end online retailer Modewalk.com launched online two years ago with a lineup of exclusive fashion brands but no bricks and mortar; in a market-testing turn, they have now added a very private shopping salon for the customer…

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SF Opera Pitches Some Wu

If you had to choose a phrase to sum up the Opera Guild Jason Wu: Art of Fashion event it would have to be “fabulous color blocking”…the fashion show featured bold color blocking of black and white, red and black and various other iterations. The décor tied in wonderfully with strong black and white choices,…

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Bouquets to Art Blossom at the DeYoung

Even though it was a couple of days early, spring was certainly in the air at the Bouquets to Art Gala at the de Young Museum on March 18th.  In addition to the magnificent floral designs, among the traditional dark evening wear were flower accents via handbags, pins, hats, earrings, floral fishnets, as well as…