Artificial Flavor will be showing its Fall/Winter 2008 line at the W Hotel in San Francisco, along with John Varvatos, On the Fly, and Andrew Christian. Free entrance for anyone, and I even heard that drinks are on the house, so it’s a great reason to come out to the W on a Wednesday night [...]
Cool Hunting has been around now for over 5 years, and is still one of the best sites on the net when it comes to staying up on, well, the coolest things around. Though not necessarily a fashion oriented blog, they do cover new brands from time to time, but only if the editors who [...]
It was a typical mid-July Saturday in San Francisco: 62 degrees and mostly cloudy, but that didn’t stop our Fashion is Inclusive by Design event from being a huge success! After hauling in 10 heavy boxes full of previous season stock and samples, we were ready to channel Richard Pryor in the 80s movie Brewster’s [...]
For one day only, Artificial Flavor seeks to challenge the notion that fashion is exclusive by nature by allowing San Francisco’s disenfranchised and underprivileged to experience the joy of owning new fashion that was produced and sold right here in the great city we call home. We will be providing free Artificial Flavor apparel to [...]
Founded in 1933, Esquire is one of the longest running men’s magazines still in print today. At one time, it featured contributions by Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and in the 60s, the magazine popularized New Journalism, which was an unconventional style embraced by Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, and Hunter S. Thompson. Today, the [...]
I’m not sure how this always seems to happen, but out of sheer coincidence, Artificial Flavor is once again on trend with the runways for SS09. Witness this white mesh cardigan (top photo) by Kris Van Assche which was just shown on the Paris runways for his eponymous collection (thanks to DNR for this photo, [...]
Q: Tell us a little about your business, the region you cover, brands you carry, etc.
A: MOM agency started three and a half years ago with a showroom in central London on Piccadilly and two collections, Oliver Spencer and an Eco inspired Jeans line called Howies. The following season we began working with Margaret Howell [...]
On July 4th, Tony tied the knot with Karen up in beautiful Calistoga, CA at the Hahn Fahden Vineyard. The weather was sunny and 82 degress, a perfect summer day. Family and friends came from all over to celebrate their union. After the outdoor ceremony in the garden, cocktail hour commenced and then dinner was [...]
Recently John took a trip around the world to visit various distributors and retailers that are interested in representing Artificial Flavor. Lucky for us he documented his vagabond-ish business travels across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe with some fun snapshots. Here they are, enjoy!
Tokyo - the smallest self contained bathroom I have ever seen [...]
