Behind The Beast is a unique panel some of the city's leading fashion industry experts including designers, forecasters, stylists, photographers, publicists and editors.
HELLO KITTY 35TH ANNIVERSARY & FAN PARTY
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Et Derive is inviting you to "In Praise of Costume, The Garment as Sculpture". An event celebrating what is fashion shown through the different aspects of art. Expressed through photography, paintings or through such well crafted dolls. 6 new york based artists to show the different worlds of fashion through their own eyes.
Three women, Cassie McGettigan, Nile Nash & Lisa Foti-Straus, are behind SF's incredible boutique Gravel & Gold. They carry objects from around the globe (tees from a mill in PA, Japanese totes, leggings from Brooklyn, Guatemalan rugs to name a few items) as well as hold community centric events like this Friday's BYOB Happy Hour with Food & Sex Magazine.
Walking with LLNY/SF's Heather Hayashi in San Francisco's Mission neighborhood yesterday, we caught sight of these Frida Kahlo earrings - to die for!! 
Network. Walk into an event or a lunch ready to rub elbows, shake hands, introduce yourself and exchange information. Opportunities are everywhere. Be ready to recognize and seize them. It means putting yourself out there to fail — or, more likely, succeed. Learn more tips here: Network From Your Desk.
Celebrate the success of others. When someone you know — a colleague, a friend, even a professional acquaintance — succeeds in getting what she wants, be a cheerleader. Announce her success on Twitter or Facebook.
Good karma. Good business.
3. Be Phoney
You're juggling a day job with your business and feeling overwhelmed by both. At times like that you may wonder why you thought you could bring your dream into reality. What were you thinking? To be honest, if a lot of entrepreneurs knew what they were getting into, they might have run away screaming instead of starting a business. The thing is, dreams don't go away that easily. You may try to dismiss them, but they're always in the back of your mind.
Doubts will never completely go away. They're part of being human. So don't wait for them to disappear before you embrace your dreams; keep believing in them and visualizing them. You'll be surprised at what you will accomplish. It takes courage to step out of the crowd and create a business out of an idea. Working on a full-time job and a business will take every ounce of belief that you have in your dream -— and the reward will be beyond what you could have imagined. Check out this post for more steps on Dealing With Doubt.
5. Aim HigherYou know that saying, "Careful what you wish for, you just might get it?" Here’s a twist: Careful the amount of money you seek to make, you just might earn it.
According to “Client Attraction” coach Fabienne Frederickson, a recent survey of 200 women about income revealed just how low women are aiming. In her survey results, women entrepreneurs said they aim to earn $50,000-$75,000 per year. But judging from their professions, Frederickson determined that many respondents had the potential to earn far more.
All of this invites the questions: Why are you aiming so low, and what constraints are you placing on yourself? Shame on you. Seriously, no shame, but umph. Triple your goals. What's the worst that could happen? You could earn half of your goal, and still be better off than when you started.
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Photograph by Carissa Pelleteri
One of the biggest problem in the world of fashion is that of over-production. In response, SANS has introduced downloadable patterns on their website.
Lika Volkova, the designer behind SANS clothing explains that providing patterns cuts down on carbon intensive mass production and distribution. Instead of mass producing a garment that gets shipped throughout the world, people can buy a pattern (prices range from $6 to $25) and either create clothes themselves or bring it to their local tailor to create it for them. The idea is that the garment is made locally.
And then I found this little DIY iPhone stand from Dessine Moi Un Objet (trans: draw me an object). The idea that patterns can be downloaded, printed and objects created only when they're needed and wanted is the most sustainable aspect of design I've seen to date.
“When you have a piece that you made yourself, you relate to it differently. You value it differently.” says Lika.
Perhaps a garment (or any product) would not be easily thrown away to be replaced by a new one, had it been made by our hands.
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