Lloyd Klein to Headline S.F. Fashion Week
Los Angeles designer Lloyd Klein will lead the entries for the first San Francisco International Fashion Week (SFIFW), set for Oct. 21–23 at Fort Mason.
The show will run concurrently with Los Angeles Fashion Week, which isslated for Oct. 21–25.
Klein will be joined by up-and-coming San Francisco designers Cari Borja and Joseph Domingo as well as a slate of international names, including Gaspard Yurkievich, Isabelle Ballu, Afshin Feiz, Sebastien Meunier and Pierre-Henri Mattout from France; Paul Munroe and Black Coffee from South Africa; Shantanu & Nikhil, Manish Arora and Payal Jain from India; and Rajo Laurel from the Philippines.
The designers will be showing their ready-to-wear collections for Spring 2006.
Klein, a veteran of runways in New York and Los Angeles, will host a kick-off yacht party for the event. In addition, SFIFW representatives will present an International Lifetime Achievement award and an International Designer of the Year award at a luncheon.
“San Francisco International Fashion Week’s goals are twofold,” said Jacinta Law, chief executive of International Fashion Industries Inc., which is producing the event. “First, we’re bringing internationally known fashion designers from five diverse countries to San Francisco in a way never before attempted. Second, we are providing an international-American flavor for designers to exchange, display and celebrate global creativity through fashion.”
For more information, visit www.sfifw.com. —Robert McAllister
