Thursday, June 18 @ The Moore Building
4040 Northeast 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33137
6:00pm - 7:00pm: VIP Only Private Preview
7:00pm - 11:00pm: Main Event
Mark your calendar - Shop Miami is back on June 18 with amazing designers at unbeatable prices, a sponsored bar, complimentary beauty services, and DJ Ray Milian. Get your tickets now for everyone’s favorite shopping party of the season!
Portion of proceeds to benefit the Gen Art Foundation. Must be 21 or older to attend.
www.genart.org

Dresses by Nature Vs. Future

So I’ve been hearing about this designer shopping event called Shop NYC for the past couple of years, and really wanted to check it out. Thanks to Bijules, I got a comp ticket to enter and see what it was going on. And this is when I admit my mistakes and tell you that I messed up. I should have told you guys about this earlier.

Gen Art is an arts and entertainment organization with offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and Chicago, that is dedicated to showcasing emerging fashion designers, filmmakers, musicians and visual artists. They produce over 100 events a year, and Shop NYC is just one of them. Utilizing designers featured in Gen Art runway shows, as well as some of New York’s top emerging fashion and accesory lines, Shop NYC allows fashionistas to purchase current run pieces, samples, one-offs, and pre-release products directly from designers at discounts of up to 70% off. In addition they also had a beauty area with free makeup applications, hair touch ups, and brow shaping.

I saw a lot of clothes and jewelry from brands that we at M.I.S.S. will likely be reporting on individually in the near future, but you can get a taste in the photo gallery. My personal favorites were the dresses by Sonia Rykiel that were stashed in the mashup designer dress section. So cute! And cute’s not even my thing! I also loved the cotton and jersey pieces by Mary Meyer. I was smart to not bring a wad of cash, cuz I would have dropped it on her Spine Leggings in an instant. I don’t condone stealing…but I can’t lie! I thought it for a split second!  I also, for the first time every in my many year’d life got my face totally done up by the makeup people at Dex New York. I’m a mascara, lip gloss, and that’s it kind of girl, and just have to say it felt totally weird to get the sponge with wet foundation all over my face. But when my makeup artist was all done, the combination of their mineral based products looked really good, lessening my under eye circles, and highlighting my cheekbones in a pretty natural way.

In all, I think the cost of a $15 ticket to the event was probably worth it when you combine the steals and deals to be had, the beer and wine bar, and use of the beauty section.  So next time New Yorkers, I promise I’ll tell you ahead of time when this event is going down (psssst…. it’s in November, date TBA) and for the ladies in Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, and San Francisco - keep your eyes peeled for SHOP events in your cities. The next one will be in Miami on June 18th. Everyone everywhere else, check out the Gen Art boutique of Yoox.com for some exquisite fashion choices.

roadKill from the Recycled Dead as worn in the Gen Art Fresh Faces In Fashion SS08 show with K.Z.O. Menswear.

Don’t be scared, it won’t bite. But at one time it would have. Taking the refuse of the animal world: teeth, claws, skulls, feet, bones, tails, feathers and the like, roadKILL is a jewelry and accessories line like no other. Every item used is hand picked from around the world by The Recycled Dead duo, Christopher and Whitney and often by the hands of Native Americans. Each piece is a one-of-a-kind wonderment that embodies “their adoration of fine art, taxidermy, and couture fashion.” 

I love when nature merges with fashion. When beauty can be created out of what people often consider trash or useless objects and intern you have a much desired speciment that have people clammering to get their hands one. When at one point the parts to the equation that brought about what you now desire where something you left for dead. You never thought you wanted it but now you do. Welcome to roadKILL from the Recycled Dead.

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You can spend some of your hard earned cash for some well-deserved retail therapy at Gen Art Shop SF!!!

M.I.S.S. Crew friends Office Tramp and She-Bible will be selling their goods at the event. Don’t sleep on it!

Thursday, May 31st
6:00 - 10:00pmThe Galleria | San Francisco Design Center
101 Henry Adams St
San Francisco, CA

Get on the guestlist for FREE entry!!!

Make sure to RSVP for SHOPSF before Wednesday, May 30th, 12pm, by emailing rsvpsf@genart.org