Jean Paul Gaultier Exhibit Opening at de Young

The big buzz of last week was the Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit opening at de Young museum! OMG (triple that) what a night! A very stylish & creative crowd gathered to celebrate the iconic French couturier's exhibit featuring beyond amazing, unique, edgy, controversial & provocative 140 pieces that he created over the last 40 years. From haute couture to RTW pieces they all make you want to stare at them in awe till you digest and after you get over your admiration (or not) move to the next piece if you can. BTW those mannequins can talk, just brilliant!! I definitely will go back and check out the exhibit couple of more times! 

OK back to the party, what an amazing set up that was! From so delish food (including sushi and ceviche) to crazy shows & band (called Extra Action Marching Band) and a runway with models in his designs, the sexy DJ and the fabulous guests who showed off their style in their most possible creative way!  Wanted to bow! I lived my own fairytale in my gorgeous gorgeous Verrieres & Sako red ball skirt with ruching and topped it with a simple striped tank top and a jean jacket I got years ago from Urban Outfitters. Ohh I didn’t want this special night to end.

JP Gaultier made an appearance to the party with his muse Dita Von Teese. It was a night to remember and the best part was to celebrate and acknowledge this iconic designer while he is still alive! 

It is a must see exhibit if you are in SF! 

Sailors are one of his biggest inspirations and he is crazy for stripes

Calligraphie gown, from Cages haute couture collection fall/winder 2008-2009-time needed to create: 295 hours

famous Madonna cone bra corset he designed for her Blond Ambition Tour in 1990

Strapless velvet dress with cone bra cups, Barbês colletion, Prêt-à-Porter fall/winter 1984-1985

Immaculata gown, Virgins collection, haute couture spring / summer 2007, worn by Kylie Minogue in her "Like a Drug" video

Mermaids are another big inspiration and theme in his collections

Circe ensemble from Buttons haute couture collection, spring/summer 2003, time needed to create 110 hours

 famous perfume bottles he designed

my entourage- with Sara, Enzo & Marie

only for San Francisco

with models wearing JPG

from the Sidewalk to the Catwalk

with designer Daniel Sudar and model, Alex, wearing Daniel's winning design picked by JPG

cool DJ

loved all the graffiti details at the bars and on bartender jackets

with a serious sailor

a stylish guest

Sunday Fun Day

My March Madness started with a private trunk show I was hosting at my place couple of weekends ago. It was for Verrieres & Sako (a fabulous SF designer that I mentioned many times before on my blog) and NY based designer Anjali Kumar. It was a very bubbly & sunny shopping day for beautiful clothes with my fab girlfriends. We even enjoyed a mini fashion show with 2 models (thank you Charleston Pierce ) and checked out the latest collections of these designers.

Thanks to all my girlfriends who came and played with me :) major credits to Stephanie (owner and designer of V&S) for going up and down 3 floors all afternoon with a bun in the oven, and of course my sweet hubby for letting me use his office and turning that into a small boutique..

Here are some pics from the trunk show!

Both myself and the model, Rita wearing Verrieres & Sako dresses

Models, Hannah & Rita in V&S

Models, Hannah & Rita in V&S

Racks of clothes

and more...

Posing with Charleston Pierce who came to check on his models :) I am wearing an Anjali Kumar silk skirt and BCBGMaxAzria heels, Chanel earrings from Spring'11 collection and an essential tank top which has been in my closet for many years & never fails to rescue me

Model, Hannah in V&S

and the food was untouched till the end of the shopping spree

Verrieres & Sako Private Trunk Show

Last Sunday a friend of mine hosted a private trunk show at her place and myself & my fashionable girlfriends enjoyed a day of relaxed shopping in a private & personal setting while sipping our bellinis. It was a trunk show for Verrieres & Sako, an emerging hot local SF designer, whose designs made it to San Francisco Chronicle’s best dressed women of opening night galas for ballet, opera and symphony 3 years in a row. Owner and designer Stephanie Verrieres was there and that made this fun event much more special.  Her designs are modern, feminine and easy to wear. Trunk show pieces included sexy cocktail dresses with ruching details, sheath dresses that you can dress up or down, fitted wool jackets, silk blouses and pants, long silk coats and many more chic pieces with a color palette of mostly neutrals and red. We definitely found some nice pieces for ourselves to take home and it was a fabulous experience. Now I plan to host one at my place, will definitely keep you posted!

Wonderful host, Rebecca Zito (wearing a V&S dress) welcoming us to her place

My girls ready to try their finds, Marie Carr & Sara Pirami

More rack of clothes

Myself (wearing a Diane von Furstenberg silk shirt and J Brand distressed jeans) with designer Stephanie Verrieres and Rebecca Zito

One of Rebecca's barbie dolls

Sara and I bought the same silk coat in different colors, will be perfect to wear over our gala gowns and cocktail dresses, actually I really liked it with jeans as well.

SF Symphony & Opera Opening Night Galas

It has been so hectic lately that I can’t even post on my blog..Shame on me! But in this craziness I made it to two very big events in the city last week. I attended SF Symphony 100^th year Opening Night Gala on Wednesday and SF Opera Opening Night Gala on Friday! Yesss and I managed to do it all with one day apart with a full time job. Both nights were full of style, elegance, glamour, music and good food. At the Symphony concert it was amazing to listen to Lang Lang's piano performance. On friday's opening I loved loved SF Opera’s new season opening production, Puccini’s masterpiece, “Turandot”, it was very dramatic and carried me away with its story, costumes, décor and beautiful music.

And the fashion...SF ladies did it again, spotted so many fabulous gowns on both nights. Red and pink were the popular colors as well as shades of purple and emerald green. A line gowns with big skirts, mermaid train gowns and tiered dresses were chosen by many fashionable ladies for this posh social scene.

Fairy tale glam summarizes these opening nights perfectly and most of us took our place in this colorful & dreamy act happily ever after..

All the pictures are from Drew Altizer Photography.

Joy Bianchi

Deepa Pakianathan

Jennifer Siebel Newsom in Prabal Gurung

Paula Carano in Oscar de la Renta

Kelly Murphy in Verrieres & Sako

Myself in a dark green vintage dress

with my beautiful friend Marie Carr at the Symphony opening night

Paula Carano in Ricky Serbin

Google's Marissa Mayer in a custom designed Alexander McQueen

Afsaneh Akhtari in Christian Siriano

myself in Tadashi Shoji

with my friend Ileana Facchini in her stunning Paola Girardi dress

with my gorgeous girls Marie Carr & Sara Pirami 

I have to mention about my earrings, gift from my mom! love u mom!!