Palm Springs Living

These days it seems the most popular neighborhood in San Francisco is Palm Springs. Who doesn’t know someone, or a few, who have taken a second residence in the desert valley? Obviously the weather, the extreme opposite-ness from what we have here, is a big draw, and its friendly atmosphere for the gay [...]

Money? What Money?

There’s something slightly absurd about the front-page New York Times article that ran on Sunday about San Francisco’s “rich young princes” (the Internet m/billionaires of our area), which focussed mostly on the remarkably un-glamorous lifestyle of 32-year old Max Levchin, a PayPal founder who is worth $100 million or so.
I say it’s absurd because it’s [...]

SF Shopping Tips

There’s a cool new website that specializes in giving shopping tips to travelers. It’s called Indagare.com and you should check it out. For San Francisco visitors, there are some recommendations from Heather Hartle of “7×7,” Roth and Emily Martin of the Hedge Gallery, and Alexis Swanson Traina. From Indagare, here are [...]

Jordan Park Home For Sale

According to the October issue of “Town & Country” magazine, Jordon Park is the neighborhood in San Francisco where “the living is suddenly sublime.” The magazine recommends it for its “wide, level street and oversized homes,” noting that “for growing families whose children attend one of the many prestigious private schools nearby (Town [...]

SFluxe Reads Paris Vogue

I’ve recently decided to learn French, and figure the best French to learn would be Fashion French. Naturally, then, my textbook is Paris Vogue. The October issue — sorry, Octobre — is absolutely wonderful, and has some items of interest to San Francisco readers.
First, you have to see “Saint Olivier,” the profile of probably the [...]

New Clothes and Old Bags

Here are two events SFluxe is looking forward to on Friday the 19th. The first is the grand opening of Eco Citizen at 1488 Vallejo Street (from 5 - 8 pm.)  The shop is a “high-end eco-boutique” specialising in women’s and men’s clothing that meets their standards of being organic, sweat-shop free, “green” (made of [...]

A Special Evening for Lois Lehrman

Willie Brown, Lois Lehrman and Elisa Stephens
Dr. Elisa Stephens, the president of the Academy of Art University, recently hosted a dinner to honor Lois Lehrman, now in her 30th year as publisher of the Nob Hill Gazette. It was a lovely dinner, preceded by a formal declaration of “Lois Lehrman Day” by the Mayor’s [...]

Classic French Style

One of the events not to miss this week involves some of our favorite things: shopping, Paris, Union Square, and the Raphael House organization.
Susan Sutherland’s Style Paris showroom is having a cocktail party this Thursday, October 11, from 6 to 8 p.m., where proceeds from the sale of clothing will go to the Raphael [...]

Brooks Brothers’ Black Fleece

Thom Browne
I’m wishing for an especially cold winter after looking at the new Black Fleece collection that Thom Browne designed for Brooks Brothers — it will provide a great opportunity to wear one of the luxurious new capes or sharply cut woolen suits.
The designer showed his collection at the Post Street store recently, for a [...]

Apron Shopping at Podium

It was so delightful to meet Elizabeth Scokin at Podium on Friday, where she unveiled her new collection of chic hostess aprons (which I told you about earlier.) Here she has a chat with Willie Brown and Podium owner Sonya Molodetskaya.

The party, hosted by Rosalina Lydster (above, with Elizabeth Scokin and Arnold Laub) [...]