Betabrand
Thinktank
Fashion Pitch & Design Challenge
Betabrand’s Think Tank allows customers to vote on what ideas should become prototypes. Once these are protyped, then other customers can actually choose to fund that clothing by committing to buying the piece if and when it meets the funding goal to manufacture.
Disrupt Fashion Hackathon
San Francisco Fashion Week
Startup House
Disrupt Fashion Hackathon seeks to bring together designers, developers, business professionals, and technologists to cultivate ideas on how to #DisruptFashion.
Gaultierize Yourself
Fashion Design Competition
de Young Museum
Gaulterize Yourself is a fashion design competition inspired by Jean Paul Gaultier during “The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk” held at de Young Museum
Fashion Pitch Competition
SF Fashion Lab
FIDM
Fashion designers will present the top three designs from their collections and explain to a panel of judges how the designs represent their unique design philosophy and aesthetics. They will also explain their design inspirations and short and long term business goals.
Future of Fashion Gameference
Fab Future Foundation
Astro Studios
An unforgettable journey into a world of fashion in the making. Exploring trends and signals including. In-home + In-store 3D Body Scanning, Virtual Fitting Rooms and Fitting Robots, Just-in-Time Fabric Printing, Cutting, and Garment Assembly, Mass-Customization, Co-Creation + “Crowd Design”.
THE BEAUTY EXPO
Beauty Team Competition
Blush School of Makeup
An annual LIVE hair and make-up styling presentation and fashion installation. A networking soiree for professionals in the fashion, beauty and tech communities featuring trunk show by local retailers, fashion + beauty app demos & vendors.
Fashion Feud Competition
Prohect Runway On Stage
Sponsored by: Scion
Scion and the San Francisco Fashion and Merchants Alliance present Fashion Feud – a live “Project Runway” like fashion design competition live on stage.