The latest Fashion Social was held on August 30th at The Factory in the SOMA district, a follow-up to the successful launch in March held at Westfield San Francisco Center sponsored by SeeZenn. Local designers, entrepreneurs, industry professionals and friends were introduced to The Factory team offering convenient, local services for manufacturing and sales development. The Factory is the San Francisco outpost of The Evans Group out of Los Angeles headed by Jen Evans. The Factory is a hybrid retail and production concept shop selling its own private label clothes while providing on-site development services for manufacturing and production to up-and-coming fashion designers and labels in San Francisco. The Evans Group has provided services to more than 300 designers over the last five years and is looking to expand services in San Francisco.

Fashion Social is an ongoing business development and networking mixer series held in various local boutiques and business locales where the host venue showcases their products and services to SFFAMA/Fashion+TechSF members and the public. Marketing and PR for Fashion Social is by Owen Geronimo and  SFFAMA/Fashion+TechSF . Following in the footsteps of our organization partnership with Startup Monthly’s Startup Social events – Fashion Social is an extension targeting fashion entrepreneurs and fashion tech product developers.

Close to 100 beautiful smiling faces attended The Factory ’Fashion Social’ event including the very stylish Dario Smith, the genius behind The Bellwether Project, Lili Balfour of Atelier Advisors, in-house fashion designer Zoe Hong, Inspirare founder Sean Peng and Creative Director Olivia Muniak, uber vintage jewelry broker Sasha Matsutenko, Mogime founder Geraldine Yong, Motion Portrait researcher Ryo Kawamura, SFMarketingGirl’s Kara Hugglestone, Handbag Designer Danielle Davidson, Personal Fitness professional Luke Wilson of Push Athletics with the beautiful Tiffany Walker, Talented videographer Ross Chandler of CTA Productions, Beauty Blogger Anne Kiesow, Photographer Clay Kerri, Startup entrepreneur Matthew Myers, Blogger Anne Jude, SFFAMA Advisory Board Gwendolyn Wright of The Wright Consultants, Jessica Chan of Izze Sparkling Drinks, Jordi Rivas of 1Sleeve, Christos Chrestatos of Thought Pusher, FIDMSF’s activities coordinator Marcellina Burch, Dane Golden of Hey.com and Erik Swoeyer of Fizz Marketing. For more information about Fashion Social visit http://www.fashionsocial.org/ ~ Article by: Owen Geronimo