I’m mildly obsessed with this: one-of-kind rugs and wall art made using your DNA profile by UK company Play DNA. The resulting prints are available in bold colors that add pattern play to a room, but they also say quite a lot about you, the inhabitant. Here’s how it works: use a cheek swab (it’s [...]
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The idea behind San Francisco fashion startup Cuyana: buy fewer, better things. Sure, it’s a clever marketing strategy, but it’s a sentiment I like, one I try to follow. Plus, items like this 100 percent silk tunic could pull serious wardrobe weight (pool coverup, belted over jeans, tucked into high-waist pants, appropriate for multiple [...]
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More than a few online brands have moved into stylish I.R.L. digs in the last year. One of the latest is Pickwick & Weller, purveyor of premium t-shirts for men and women sent in a box with a five-day, at-home try-on policy that nods to the Warby Parker model. (If you happen to be one [...]
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Not that you needed another reason to love living in San Francisco, but here’s one anyway: local fashion startup Boutiika and its just-launched Dash, a same-day delivery service that promises to ferry items from local boutiques into your hot little hands in super stat fashion. That means you could be sitting at your desk, stressing [...]
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Finding beauty products you love that work just the way you want them to can feel like a battle. San Francisco startup founder Lindsey Guest knew there had to be a better way to find the best beauty products without spending hours trolling the aisles in big box beauty stores or testing products at department [...]
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Things to know from the intersection of fashion, style and technology…. Take that, Bay Area style agnostics: Local journalist Maghan MacDowell clears up a common misconception about San Francisco’s style prowess in her story about local fashion bloggers. And guess what, says MacDowell: San Francisco style blogs outnumber their counterparts in New York and L.A. [...]
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