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Mill Valley is hosting the Love Makers Sustainable Craft Fair this Tuesday from 2PM-8PM. Handcrafted goodness from Molly of 8MM Ideas, Ashley Rose Helvey, Green Dog Designs and Christina from Borrowed, Bought, Stolen make this more than worth the trip across the Golden Gate. In addition, there will be two screen printers on hand from Remade in America, so bring down your own t-shirt and let them do their magic. It all goes down during the Mill Valley Art Walk at 1 El Paseo.

More crafty from these fine folks will also be available:
http://comfies.blogspot.com/
http://www.reginepfanz.com/
http://www.andreasuess.com/
http://www.alittlehouseintheclouds.blogspot.com/
http://www.fielddaywearables.com/ ( Trinity Cross)
www.enzogarcia.com

Local shoe designer, and friend of Mesh, Beth Macias recently won an online, Steve Madden shoe design contest. Her design has now been made into an actual Steve Madden shoe (shown above in red & black), which you can buy online next week. She is also now apparently total bros with Steve. Crazy. And Congrats Beth!

Tonight at the corner of Haight & Ashbury you can join in the grand opening of the RVCA Retail’s first flagship store (stores in LA, NYC, Tokyo, and Sydney are in the works). Art, music, fashion and pop culture.

The first exhibition is entitled Family Tree. The show will include work by R.Pimple, Phil Frost, Pushead and Craig Stecyk and runs through December 31.

A night of freestyle, instant-couture battles is set to take place at 111 Minna, when House of Diehl presents Style Wars, in which designers create fashions live onstage. In addition to the Project Runway-ish mayhem, C.L.A.W.S. will be performing along with DJ All Teeth & Knuckles. $8 in advance/$12 at the door/21+.

Keep reading for a Style Wars video:

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Tonight The Hive is hosting the opening party (5- 10 pm) for a showcase of rising designers like Danielle Scarpulla Millinery and Alisha Trimble. The gallery will also be showing paintings by Rykarda Parasol and Kevin Glen Price as well as photography by Brenda McLeran.

Capsule, the biannual street fest focusing on local, independent designers is back in Hayes Valley on Sunday, October 14th (at and around the Hayes Valley Green on Hayes & Octavia). The event features hundreds of local designers selling clothes for women and men, accessories and other random art-y type things. I’ve come away from Capsule with a N8 Van Dyke drunk monkey t-shirt, some hipster baby clothes gifts, and a Lomo Fisheye camera. There will also be live music and the official Capsule Lounge at Marlena’s bar.

Courtney Love wants to market her own perfume. Any ideas on what this will smell like?

I totally don’t want to be Tased. Can someone please buy me this shirt? Or, actually, maybe this one:

Check out these rad shirts from Lisa Romero. If I were a girl, I’d totally be wearing one. Here’s the news from Lisa:

Summer is almost at a close- and I’ve been busy in my batcave making… all sorts of stuff. Here I’ll show you a couple:

www.indietee.com made me very happy and asked me to design some tees for them. They are 100% cotton and only $20! You can find them here:

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and here-
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I promise I’ll show ya more of what we been makin real soon!

Capsule has been putting on excellent street fairs for the past several years, where I’ve picked up some cool gear (for cheap) from local designers and retailers, including a Nate Van Dyke bitter monkey t-shirt and a Lomo fisheye camera. They’ve got even more stuff for the ladies, lots of clothes and accessories. This year, Capsule is once again taking over Hayes Valley, around the Hayes Valley Green with 140 clothing and accessory designers, lifestyle product designers and graphic artists. And for the first time, there will be live music as part of the event. All that, plus right around the corner, RAG SF is having a sidewalk sale featuring even more local designers.