Noe Valley. Just when you thought you’ve seen all of San Francisco’s hidden spots, waves Noe Valley. Among the Victorian homes, gift and flower shops we stumble across 24th St. The main shopping strip in Noe Valley, sandwiched between the Mission and Castro. Though the most trendy fashion in this town were pregnant women or new moms, there are a few boutiques that offer just enough to satisfy the neighbors.
Hayes Valley. Hayes’ for horses, and hipsters. The plaid still found on grungy urbanites trickle the style to a quaint, chicer boutique strip, Hayes Valley. Some of the pedestrians on this strip seemed oblivious to their natural ‘hipness’, since the neighborhood calls for it in itself. We went into a store called Azalea to take a look first hand. One of the male sales associates was dragged out from behind his dj scratch turntable to pose nonchalantly for the camera. From illustrative splashed tee’s similar to one shown by Julie Huas, to minimalist knuckle rings, these street setters knew exactly where to keep up their non-trendy trend.
One of most distinctive human brand made his stamp on local San Franciscans on this street where his flagship resides on Fillmore and Sacramento St. Marc Jacobs, who recently signed a deal with Mitsubishi to increase his presence in Japan, is still the main pick for trendsetters on Fillmore St. Also among top choices were vintage and mix & matchwear, allowing the young 20’s-30’s shoppers the freedom to style H&M with Gucci as they sipped on their latte’s and went for the weekend meandering.
Few resembled Spring 2009 rtw, although, not sure if anyone really was motivated by the runway. Nonetheless, there were some resemblances for example of L’Wren Scott’s cropped leather jackets and a young woman who decided to pair the looser version of it up with a cobalt, houndstooth print scarf, resembling more ____. Still the preferred the safe and casual look, say it if you will, a reasonable response to this season’s recession sporting mostly blacks, grays, and neutrals. Some designers’ collections that showed this look are: Helmut Lang, with his city cool and surprising constructions. Also, House of Cassette connected the hipster loose shirt dresses dueled with tights.
Robin Miriam Carlson, better known as Robyn has made a recent comeback with hits off her “Konichiwa Bitches” album with hits like “Handle Me,” and “With Every Heartbeat” that brings us jamming to eclectic “Nuclear-powered pop’. But the stardom of Robyn started back in the late 90’s with hits widely known, “Show me Love” and “Do You Know”.
In her early childhood, Robyn recorded the theme song for Swedish television show, Lilla Sportspegeln, named Du Kan. It was this age she was discovered when singing her self written song about her parents’ divorce in a school workshop by Swedish pop singer, Meja, and was signed on to BMG right away. Her soulful single, ‘Show Me Love’ aired in 1997 of which claimed Robyn an International pop star by the age of 16.
RCA records released her debut single “you’ve Got That Something” in Sweden followed by Robyn is Here in 1995. In 1998, My Truth was released in 2004, unfortunately migrated away from her second record label Jive after feeling “disillusioned by their attempt to fabricate Christina template.” “I think the third record I made was a big compromise. I felt like it wasn’t fun anymore. Once you make the record and you give it to the record company, it’s not your record anymore! I was going backwards. I wasn’t doing what I wanted to.” Robyn disheartened and ready to white flag her music career, stumbled across a local brother-sister duo, Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer called themselves ‘The Knife’ on a CD titled ‘Deep Cuts’. They had sketched a blueprint for a kind of abstract future pop using geometric blocks of pure texture which amazed Robyn so much it brought her back to revitalize her music spirit. She harnessed her own style of piercingly honest pop collaborated with ‘The Knife’s unique Swedish energy to work on a potential single. That single was called ‘Who’s That Girl’.
Bringing this electrifying concoction to her old recording company was the last straw of ‘big label’ behoovement Robyn could possibly stand- in fact, they hated it. “They just thought it was weird,” sighs Robyn. “They didn’t understand it. I guess they didn’t consider it to be pop music, which I think is crazy. It’s TOTALLY pop music! Modern, inventive music- that’s what pop music should be.” Six months later, that modern inventive energy brought about ‘Konichiwa Records’. She had her lucky connections that got her thus far, singing her expressive heart out about all her music management dealing frustrations and proving that through and through Robyn was relentless to stick to her egalitarian partnerships in creating her unique style of electro hip-pop and truly making it her own.
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Noe Valley. Just when you thought you’ve seen all of San Francisco’s hidden spots, waves Noe Valley. Among the Victorian homes, gift and flower shops we stumble across 24th St. The main shopping strip in Noe Valley, sandwiched between the Mission and Castro. Though the most trendy fashion in this town were pregnant women or new moms, there are a few boutiques that offer just enough to satisfy the neighbors.
Hayes Valley. Hayes’ for horses, and hipsters. The plaid still found on grungy urbanites trickle the style to a quaint, chicer boutique strip, Hayes Valley. Some of the pedestrians on this strip seemed oblivious to their natural ‘hipness’, since the neighborhood calls for it in itself. We went into a store called Azalea to take a look first hand. One of the male sales associates was dragged out from behind his dj scratch turntable to pose nonchalantly for the camera. From illustrative splashed tee’s similar to one shown by Julie Huas, to minimalist knuckle rings, these street setters knew exactly where to keep up their non-trendy trend.
One of most distinctive human brand made his stamp on local San Franciscans on this street where his flagship resides on Fillmore and Sacramento St. Marc Jacobs, who recently signed a deal with Mitsubishi to increase his presence in Japan, is still the main pick for trendsetters on Fillmore St. Also among top choices were vintage and mix & matchwear, allowing the young 20’s-30’s shoppers the freedom to style H&M with Gucci as they sipped on their latte’s and went for the weekend meandering.
