San Francisco Fall Show 2023
An exquisite San Francisco Fall Show Opening Night Gala took place at the Festival Pavilion of the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture on October 11th.
This year's show invites to celebrate La Dolce Vita, the epitome of the Italian "good life." It's a call to bask in the pure pleasure of appreciating and collecting art, antiques, and design. From luminaries like Botticelli to Bertoia, Fellini to Fornasetti, Schiaparelli to Sottsass, La Dolce Vita embodies poetic beauty, awe-inspiring art, groundbreaking design, vibrant colors, and refined materials. Andiamo!
The 41st edition of the Show shows over forty international dealers, each offering an extraordinary array of fine and decorative arts spanning diverse styles and eras, encompassing American, English, Continental, and Asian furniture, decorative objects, paintings, prints, photographs, books, gold, silver, precious metals, jewelry, rugs, textiles, and ceramics. Dealers present pieces ranging from antiquity to the present day. The Show will features a popular series of book signings and lectures, with confirmed speakers including luminaries like Nina Campbell, Newell Turner, Jean Liu, Miguel Flores-Vianna, Brigette Romanek, Michael Diaz-Griffith, Noz Nozawa, William Li, Alfredo Paredes, and many more.
The 2023 Show's Honorary Chair is none other than Lauren Santo Domingo, Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer at Moda Operandi and Artistic Director of the Home Collection at Tiffany & Co.
October 14 – 17, 2021 10:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., Thursday – Saturday 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Sunday
CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON’S CINDERELLA RETURNS TO SAN FRANCISCO BALLET
San Francisco Ballet's 90th Anniversary Season is featuring Christopher Wheeldon's adaptation of Cinderella©, with Sergei Prokofiev's score, opened on March 31st at the War Memorial Opera House and continuing until April 8th. Wheeldon's Cinderella takes a captivating twist on the well-known fairy tale, with the protagonist controlling her own fate after the loss of her mother, rather than relying on a fairy godmother or the stroke of midnight.
The production, inspired by the darker Brothers Grimm version of the story, boasts set and costume designs by Tony Award-winning designer Julian Crouch and San Francisco-native puppeteer Basil Twist. The dazzling end of Act I, which The New York Times describes as a "triumph of fantasy," is directed by Twist and features a tree growing from Cinderella's tears. With an enormous 197 roles and 370 costumes, including Cinderella's gold gown detailed with computer-printed feathers, the production is a co-production with Dutch National Ballet, and it premiered in the United States with SF Ballet in 2013 before touring the world.
Casting for Cinderella includes Soloist Isabella DeVivo in her role debut as Cinderella, while Principal Dancer Max Cauthorn also makes his role debut as Prince Guillaume. Additionally, Principal Dancer Isaac Hernández performs as Prince Guillaume for the first time with SF Ballet, having previously played the role at English National Ballet in 2019. Cinderella is Wheeldon's only full-length ballet for SF Ballet and one of the 15 ballets he has choreographed for the Company. The production was last performed at SF Ballet in 2020.
CALENDAR: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 7:30 pm Wednesday, April 5, 2023 at 7:30 pm Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 7:30 pm Friday, April 7, 2023 at 8 pm Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 2 and 8 pm
Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love
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The career and legacy of Black fashion designer Patrick Kelly (1954–1990) is celebrated at deYoung museum in San Francisco. Patrick Kelly was born in Mississippi in 1954. Kelly learned sewing at a tender age, possibly through the help of his mother, who worked as a teacher, teaching home economics. Immediately after he graduated, Kelly moved to Atlanta, where he was employed in a thrift shop, which exposed him to a broad range of vintage designer clothes, which he would later modify into new, unique designs.
Patrick Kelly’s design career took a significant turning point after he moved to Paris in 1980. He got a chance to pursue his love for being a designer and exhibit his outstanding talent as a designer. With the help of his friend, photographer Bjorn Ameslan, Kelly established the Patrick Kelly Paris company in 1985.
1988 saw Kelly become the first-ever American to earn admission to the renowned Chambre du prêt-à-porter des couturiers et des creatures de mode, where he ascended the status of a ‘creature .’The African American culture highly informed his designs.
The San Francisco exhibition’s sections and themes include the “Runway of Love,” highlighting the designer’s heart-shaped embellishments to his clothing, often composed from his signature buttons. As a child growing up in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Kelly would often lose his buttons, which his grandmother replaced with those of many different colors, a look that Kelly later adapted for his fashion designs.
”Fast Fashion” includes designs that Patrick Kelly assembled quickly to sell on the streets of Paris after he moved there in 1979. He dressed his model friends in body-conscious knits, which they would wear around the city, becoming living advertisements of his vision. These dresses quickly caught the attention of an editor at French Elle magazine, which featured Kelly’s fashions in a six-page spread in February 1985, as well as the Paris boutique Victoire. His first collection was purchased by Bergdorf Goodman, who found Kelly’s designs fun, chic, affordable, and Parisian. The New York–based department store showcased them in a window display reserved for new designers
Kelly often incorporated humor to address serious issues in his designs, especially those pertinent to racism.
Unfortunately, Kelly succumbed to AIDS in 1990, aged thirty-five, and after having produced ten collections, which included a collaboration with Benetton.
