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I love red carpet events because everyone gets to ogle at couture together!

Here are some of our favorite looks from the red carpet.

Angelic White Gowns

Left: Angela Kinsey in Romona Keveza. Middle: Zoe Saldana in Givenchy. Right: Judy Greer in Collette Dinnigan.

Radiant Reds

Michelle Williams in Valentino

Emerald Lady

Emily Blunt in Oscar De La Renta

Classic Black

Left: Jayma Mays in Reema Acra. Left: Amber Heard in Zac Posen.

Little Black Dress

I decided Emma Stone and her perfect Alexander McQueen dress should get it’s own mention. Paired perfectly with flirty delicious heels and knuckle duster clutches.

Sale ends midnight on Sunday December 4, 2011.

The quirky Spanish brand, Kling is coming to Fan Clothing! The full winter collection is coming soon but we are showcasing a few select pieces in our featured section. Be the first to snatch up your favorite looks with our Winter Preview Event, going on now! There’s limited sizes and quantities so don’t wait too long.

After much hard work and panic attacks our Haight Street Shop is now open for business!

It is just a soft opening for the next few weeks until we get everything worked out smoothly. We will be having a grand opening party in a few weeks time. Final dates and details will be announced on our blog and social media soon.

Due to our limited capacity the party will be invite only. To receive an invite just sign up at our shop or you can also sign up online by registering for our newsletter on the homepage.

After a year of test stores and surveying various neighborhoods in our home state of California, we have finally found the perfect flagship store!

Thanks to all our loyal customers insisting over and over that we belonged on San Francisco’s famous Haight Street, we started to search the area in earnest. For months we combed Haight for retail spaces to no avail. Feeling it may be a lost cause to find a spot in this coveted neighborhood we branched out to search other areas. Until one day while stopping in for crepes on Haight, we found parking right in front of an empty store front with a sign on the window “FOR RENT.” It was the perfect little shop a few stores down from the legendary Haight & Ashbury corner. Serendipity!

“Back in the mid-1960s, this was perhaps the most famous intersection in the world, a place where young people came to from all over the world in search of love and peace. Some found it and some didn’t, but that was only one chapter in this neighborhood’s long and colorful history.”

http://www.sfgate.com/neighborhoods/sf/haight/

Upon signing the lease our landlord gave us a world class tour of his property. It was amazing! The landlord has spent the last 30 years painstakingly restoring this beautiful building to its origins but careful to leave traces of its journey with mementos here and there throughout its restoration.

Originally it was a single family Victorian house built in 1903 with a backyard where our shop is now. After the 1906 earthquake the house was actually raised up to retrofit 3 commercial shops below. Later on that same year 3 more shops were built in place where the backyard was and the raised home was converted into a boarding house. For the next 108 years this building saw changes we can only imagine, including the explosion of the hippies and psychedelics. If those walls could talk eh? The building is also home to the 4:20 clock, a tourist photo destination. Now on the registry of historic places this building is definitely a San Francisco treasure.

To make this even more exciting we are taking over the shop space that once housed the famous Mnasidika store. The first hip boutique in the Haight back in 1964 owned by Peggy Caserta who was perhaps more widely known as Janis Joplin’s lover. Peggy was a fixture at the Haight and often lent/gave her hip clothes to aid struggling musicians.

“One person in the Haight who fell far short of the heterosexual standard was Peggy Caserta, the owner of the hip boutique Mnasadika. In the fall of 1966 she heard Big Brother at the Matrix and made Janis [Joplin] ecstatic when she told her how much she’d liked her singing.  A month later Janis walked into Peggy’s store, sill looking pretty scruffy and funky in the same ‘dirty, faded, frayed jeans’ she’d had on the night at the Matrix. Peggy noticed her eyeing a pair of $4.50 Levi’s ‘as if they were made of the rarest silk.’ Janis was broke and offered fifty cents as a down payment. Peggy told her to take the jeans, because shed’ so enjoyed her singing. Janis was amazed at Peggy’s generosity and chutzpah and asked her worriedly, ‘won’t you get fired?’ It never occurred to her that Peggy owned the store… It wasn’t the first or last time Peggy would help struggling musicians. She lent the [Grateful] Dead hip clothes for their early promo shots and gave Peter Albin a snazzy pair of pants with silver stripes down the  sides when she saw that the jeans he wore barely grazed his ankles.”

- Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin by Alice Echols

We are more than ecstatic that we get to be a part of such a rich neighborhood and to be in such a historic location. We could not have asked for a more perfect home for Fan Clothing. You know us and vintage, it doesn’t get any better than this!

Photo Credits:

http://lysergia_2.tripod.com/LamaWorkshop/lamaEternalNow_older.htm

http://www.thehesitanthippie.com/2011/03/can-hippie-ness-lead-to-happiness.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125737254573529027.html

http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Haight-Ashbury/

We are excited to be exhibiting at another event this Sunday at Capsule in San Francisco.

It’s going to be a day of cool indie designers, inspiring artists and delicious creations.

Over 130 designers will be showing off their wares including us!

We are offering exclusive deals and sale prices available at the event only. Save big on winter coat clearance and special discounts on new spring dresses.

You don’t want to miss out on Capsule this Sunday from 11am-6pm at the Hayes Valley Park on the corner of Hayes & Octavia. Bring your girls it’s going to be a nice sunny day to spend with us in the park.

Thread is back in San Fran this Sunday and we are going be there! Don’t miss out our great event sale. All the Fan Clothing coats and dresses you love will be on SALE for the event only. So come see us!

It’s that time of spring again for the bay area’s indie artsy shopping event. Thread Show is this Sunday April 10th at the Metreon between 11am-6pm.

• Shop from loads of trendsetting designers bringing you men’s and women’s clothing, accessories, shoes, jewelry and more!
• Do it yourself (because nobody does it better)at the DIY booth with live crafting on site
• Bro down with us in the new THREAD Man-cave featuring some mantastic fun!
• Sip away on amazing signature cocktails
• Join us for a mini-mani from an hot local nail salon
• Snatch up the designer and sponsor giveaways coming from the DJ booth all day long
• Make it a memory in the THREAD Photo Booth
• Chill out with quick rub down in the THREAD Well Lounge
• Check out the top designer looks on the model blocks
• Get styled with a new do and a make-up touch up in the Style Lounge
• Super sweet gift bags stuffed with love
• Art gallery featuring top local artists
• Snacks, drinks, magazines and loads of free stuff
• Kids 12 & under get in for FREE

Regardless of who was actually winning the awards on Sunday night, we thought Florence Welch and Mila Kunis definitely won in the wardrobe department. Lace was definitely IN this year at the Academy Awards and Florence and Mila (and Scarlett Johansson) wore it well.

Florence Welch (from Florence and the Machine) wore a Valentino lacey vintage-esque dress for the red carpet and later rocked a copper colored Roksanda Ilincic gown while she performed a piece with AR Rahman. There isn’t much this lady does that we don’t love but she managed to swoon us once again both onstage and on the red carpet.

Get the copper look here or maybe you are in the mood for something lace.

Mila Kunis looked gorgeous (per usual) in a lilac Elie Saab dress with sheer panels, contrasting fabrics, and lace detail. Obviously no one expected much less from her but she surprised us anyways with her unique choice that managed to stand out among a lot of the others.

Try a similar look here.

Who do you guys think was the best dressed?

Anyone who has checked out www.fanclothing.com knows we are a big fan of Tulle. They have the most feminine, form fitting, gorgeous items that make any woman look and feel good. That’s why we were SO excited to see Lucky Magazine featured Tulle’s floral skirt in their January 2011 issue. Lucky for all of you we have both the skirt and the dress on our online store…not to mention they are on SALE!

Enjoy!