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AMANDA MICHELLE FOSCHIA

Amanda Michelle Foschia is a San Francisco based wardrobe stylist, with over 9 years of experience working in the fashion industry.  She has a passion for fashion and a love of all arts. She has experience being a personal shopper, personal stylist and has styled photo shoots, editorials, and test shoots.  She has assisted  backstage at many bay area fashion shows and events doing everything from styling, dressing to production.  She also was the costume designer for the play “Scratch”.

Amanda started out working seasonally at Banana Republic and fell in love with visual merchandising, dressing and styling people.  At that point she realized that she could make something out of doing what she loved, shopping and making people look good.  She continued working retail and assisted with visuals at store level for Banana Republic, Ann Taylor Loft, BCBG Max Azria and Steve Madden.  She also was the Elie Tahari specialist, FCUK specialist, assisted with personal shopping, events and photo shoots along with the PR team for Bloomingdales.

After realizing that being a Stylist could be a real job she started independently working as a freelance stylist.   In 2008 she enrolled in the Fashion Merchandising program at CCSF. In 2009 she transferred to the Academy of Art University to obtain her BFA majoring in Fashion Journalism.  She is currently still working retail, as a freelance stylist and studying at AAU.

FARNAZ DADASHI

Born in Iran and raised in Germany, Farnaz Dadashi is a natural world traveler. Moving between three different continents within her lifetime she developed the natural ability to blend into any society and gained the talent to intermingle with all personalities. But her adventurous character and experimental spirit did not arise out of nowhere.

Coming from a family of creative individuals Farnaz’s passion to innovate and push fashion beyond its limits was bread into her DNA. With a grandfather running a sportswear manufacturing company, a mother with a unique talent to embroider and her father’s passion for designing fine leather and fur goods as well as other custom apparel, Farnaz has been immersed in a lifestyle of fashion and design since she can remember.

Ever since a young age she has been a quick and enthusiastic learner. In Europe she interned under her father and picked up the different aspects of sewing and designing clothing. While interning in Germany exposure to the culturally rich, ‘metropolitical’, European lifestyle began to set ablaze her own passion for the art of fashion. In 2011 Farnaz understood her purpose was to make an impact in the fast passed world of fashion and decided to establish herself in San Francisco. There, she attended City College and entered the fashion merchandising program to become more formally educated and prepared for the industry. Hard on the grind, Farnaz also juggled a job at Nordstrom, where she realized she also had a strong passion and inherent talent for mixing and matching outfits together as a stylist. Also, blessed with intrinsic beauty, coquetry and a playful spirit, Farnaz took on modeling and brought a more personal touch of beauty to the world of fashion. By working in the industry firsthand from multiple positions such as a high fashion stylist, conceptual art producer, and in commercial preparation and runway production, she acquired invaluable practical knowledge and experience. But knowledge and experience are not the only assets Farnaz has gained while exposing herself to the industry, but also contacts and connections through the people she works with.

Farnaz has worked with a series of designers such as Ken Chen SF, Kate Knuvelder, Zoe Hong, Coral Castillo,love by Janelle Cardenas , Lucy Bea, April Howard and many more. She has also had the opportunities to work with Bay fashion Magazine as an editorial director, backstage for Macys ‘Passport 2011’, a series of trunk shows for both, Mens WilkesBash Ford , Saks Fifth Avenue, and Neiman Marcus. Farnaz has also held positions at Lucky Brand as a jean specialist, Nordstrom as a wardrobe consultant and she is now employed at BCBG Max Azaria in Union Square as a fashion stylist.

Fashion Blogger:

Lexie Tiongson

Instead of expressing herself everyday through clothes (since she really couldn’t), she found herself writing about fashion and style in the teen section of the local newspaper, The Sacramento Bee. After moving to San Francisco in 2008, she found her true love for high fashion.

From interning at different newspapers and fashion magazines, Lexie aspires to be a fashion journalist.

She now works for Stipple as a Fashion & Style Specialist researching fashion trends in celebrities and is the Styling Coordinator at The Paris In You, a fashion styling agency. Lexie continues to write about fashion and also contributes to ASTONISH Magazine. She also works once a year as a Stylist & Visual Display Volunteer at The Princess Project, a local non-profit that promotes self-confidence and individual beauty by providing free prom dresses and accessories to high school girls.

Lexie currently attends Academy of Art University and is studying fashion journalism and visual merchandising. While attending AAU, Lexie has worked with many photographers to focus on editorial styling.

Street Style Photographer:

Dario Smith

Dario Smith ( @ http://dslitephoto.tumblr.com/) hails from Oakland, CA and with studies in photo journalism with a heavy emphasis on fashion and style. He defines style as an extension of ones character and believes that fashion is the grounds for sartorial sophistication. This concept of aesthetics has always been an umbrella to his trajectory.

He shoots to capture this sartorial harmony locally and in mandate to express that the San Francisco Bay Area “does” have an iconic flare that is not always noted in magazines, blogs, or in general fashion media.

He is dedicated to seeing a brighter future for the SF Bay area fashion and style community and makes a point to capture all of the glory that the local landscape has to offer, fashion wise, to share with the world.