M.A.C. Opens Second S.F. Location
The M.A.C. Modern Appealing Clothing boutique built a reputation for selling styles from Belgian and Japanese designers in San Francisco for the past 30 years. On May 10, it is scheduled to open a new boutique at 1003 Minnesota St. in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, which is located a block away from AT&T Park, the home of the Giants baseball team.
The 2,200-square-foot new boutique will be called Chez M.A.C., and it will offer lines from popular foreign designers, but it will focus on products and fashion lines made by San Franciscans and other Californians, said Ben Ospital, who founded and co-owns M.A.C. with Chris Ospital, his sister.
The boutique will sell San Francisco–based surf line Mollusk, for example, and starting in the summer, M.A.C. will produce a residency workshop where local designers will make garments for the shop. Designers participating in the program will be San Francisco Bay Area residents Robert Barry and Diana Slavin as well as Los Angeles resident Ryan Roberts.The shop also will offer what Ospital called “proletariat bespoke,” or cotton jackets and casual clothes made from scratch by a tailor. They will cost no more money than off-the-rack clothes. “We feel strongly that we honor the hand and the labor behind it,” Ospital said of offering tailoring services at his boutique.
Chez M.A.C. will be located in an 8,000-square-foot bright-yellow building that housed a stable in the pre–World War I era. The boutique will share the building with a wine bar called Dig and the Piccino Italian restaurant.—Andrew Asch
