Oakland designer Zoe Hong brings elevated fashion to the Bay Area

Last Thursday, Project Ethos hosted a celebration of local art, music, and fashion at Ruby Sky nightclub in San Francisco. A 50-foot white runway sat in the middle of the ground floor and served as a stage for the band before the fashion show was scheduled to start at 10 pm. 600 people attended Project Ethos’s first Bay Area event.

Oakland designer Zoe Hong is a 31-year-old emerging fashion talent in a region rarely recognized for its style. Hong is currently working on her third season, a 10-piece mini-collection for summer, and is planning a larger collection for Fall. She sells her creations at Etsy.com and Kreeya.com, as well as in three boutiques, including The Factory in San Francisco.

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“Street Style Fashion” workshop helps young designers flourish

woman sewing

Rock Paper Scissors Collective, an Oakland-based volunteer cooperative offering free and low-cost art classes to the community, has offered “Street Style Fashion” workshops since 2007. The workshops, which are presented in partnership with Arts and Creative Expression, are open by application to young fashion designers ages 14 to 25 and focus on teaching participants professional design skills. Each workshop, students begin or continue work on a garment using techniques they develop in class to move their work forward. The clothing the students create ranges from sweatshirts to skirts to dresses.

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Street chic: the faces of fashion at Art Murmur

October's Oakland Art Murmur

Oakland’s Art Murmur event on Friday night focused on art of all forms. There were storyboards of comic books. There was a fawn with a surveillance camera for a head. But aside from what could be found in the galleries, the event attracted creative individuals who chose to wear their art rather than display it on a wall. Click on the article for a Flash interactive about the back stories about Art Murmur fashion.

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