Check out CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist (his work is also featured in the September issue of Marin Magazine) Prabal Gurung’s blog on Larkspur jewelry designer Ashley Berman’s line Ashley Morgan Designs. What first attracted Prabal’s team to Ashley Morgan Designs is her, “innate ability to communicate a client’s story through use of rare and...
There are 55 percent of families living in Monterey County living in poverty with only a female head of the household struggling to support themselves. Onix is a mother just like this who has worked as a housekeeper for nine years in Carmel, CA. When she found out she had a mass of tumors...
Former Marin Magazine intern and assistant stylist Danielle Goodman is making it big in New York and Japan. Currently, working as an assistant for clothing designer Prabal Gurung (you’ve seen his designs on Demi Moore and splashed across the pages of Vogue, Elle, WWD and Bazaar) Goodman is also designing her own line of shirts...
We have a lot of fun shooting the pictures for the monthly Marinterview. Typically, writer Mimi Towle, I and the person being featured meet in my San Rafael studio. She asks questions. I make pictures. And, hopefully, a bit of magic happens. Occasionally, the visit results in bit more than a photo. That was...
Calling all eco-minded fashionistas! The creators of Gorgeous & Green are having a pre-event fashion show Tuesday December 1st. “You can get stunning vintage and sustainable dresses, suits and so much else,” says Zem Joaquin of Ecofabulous one of the sponsors. “Even if you cannot make it to Gorgeous and Green on the 8th,...
Full disclosure: I am, in some ways, the ultimate consumer. I undoubtedly inherited this trait from my father, who as the typical rags-to-riches immigrant success story has been buying two of everything ever since he could afford to. I was quite possibly one of the first Ebay shoppers, and in 2005 I combined my...
The Marin Store is open for business; or rather the site is live, and ready for transactions. For the past few months our cozy offices here in Sausalito have been graced with the presence of Tanya Naouri and Lora Dinga. Tanya brings her online retail experience of Maneater Threads (a high-end women’s online...
Senior Editor Mimi Towle and I share an office. It’s got a great location in the back, windows looking out at a grassy knoll. It seems to be just the right size, any larger and there’s always the chance of another tenant movin’ in. And we’ve got all the bells and whistles—brand new Apple...
