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Jason's Dispatches

High and Dry in San Francisco

I went to San Francisco this weekend for International Fashion Party, a private shopping event I helped to curate. The shopping fete is the brainchild of Dorothy Torresi, Ramune Ambrozaitis and Shellie Fry, three plugged-in socialites who aim to bring the spirit of Fashion Week to cities without their own such as San Francisco and Dallas. It was about creating a little slice of Paris or Milan in the Clift Hotel’s Eva Room, the stark white mezzanine area of the Philippe Starck-designed hotel.  read more »

Gregory Peck's Hotel Empire

The Crescent Beverly Hills

On one of our junkets to review West Coast hotels this summer, we bedded down at The Crescent, a boutique standard hotel that has become a quiet Beverly Hills address for creative types since its launch five years ago. The Crescent was the brainchild of Gregory Peck, a former investment banker whose clients included André Balazs and Schrager Hotel groups. The famously named Peck is now gaining attention as the developer-to-watch with a planned Crescent in San Francisco and the much-discussed Carlos Zapata-designed Cooper Square Hotel in New York's East Village. Peck sat down with JC Report to talk about his cookie cutter-free hotel concepts, the meaning of downtown luxury and the rash of developments in the coming months.

JC Report: What's occupying your days right now?

Gregory Peck: Our new project in San Francisco is at the top of the list. We just acquired a building that will become The Crescent San Francisco. It's 83 rooms, a very big space, with a restaurant and bar. We've been developing it for a few months.  read more »

Interview: Gregory Peck's Hotel Empire

The Crescent Beverly Hills

On one of our junkets to review West Coast hotels this summer, we bedded down at The Crescent, a boutique standard hotel that has become a quiet Beverly Hills address for creative types since its launch five years ago. The Crescent was the brainchild of Gregory Peck, a former investment banker whose clients included André Balazs and Schrager Hotel groups. The famously named Peck is now gaining attention as the developer-to-watch with a planned Crescent in San Francisco and the much-discussed Carlos Zapata-designed Cooper Square Hotel in New York's East Village. Peck sat down with JC Report to talk about his cookie cutter-free hotel concepts, the meaning of downtown luxury and the rash of developments in the coming months.

JC Report: What's occupying your days right now?

Gregory Peck: Our new project in San Francisco is at the top of the list. We just acquired a building that will become The Crescent San Francisco. It's 83 rooms, a very big space, with a restaurant and bar. We've been developing it for a few months.

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Edun Pops Up Westward

Edun a/w '08
U2 frontman Bono and his wife Ali Hewson's organic and socially aware fashion label Edun is hitting the West Coast with temporary pop-up shops. The first stop is in San Francisco, where the promotion is held at Azalea, the hip lifestyle boutique in the fashionable Hayes Valley area, until October 19th. The store then moves to Los Angeles' conceptual boutique TenOverSix on November 4th.
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Farahbella's Marriage Of Equals

Farahbella s/s '09
Rick and Alnea Miskiv met at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She studied fashion design and he studied fine arts, but they shared a mutual admiration for each other's work and soon an ongoing dialogue through art developed between them. Today, the now-married, Osaka-based design team forms Farahbella, a versatile line of womenswear now in its third season.
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Skeletal Metal's Eerie Edginess

Skeletal Metal ring
Skeletal Metal is a new jewelry company dedicated to inner beauty—literally. Created by Nevada-based orthopedic surgeon Dr. Mike Crovetti, the line's unique pieces are each based on reconstructive plates used to mend broken bones.
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Hail Hermes, Full of Chanel

Freya prays to luxury brands, Credit: Chelsea Bauch
Luxury brands are shaking in their stilettos at the moment—what with the Lehman Brothers breakdown in the States, a threat of recession in China and an overall shift in what people want to buy. "There's an anti-status point of view right now," says luxury marketing consultant Pam Danziger. So what's an age-old luxury label to do?
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Mini Market Goes Big

Mini Market
Thanks to London's Portobello Road, Paris' Les Puces and Sydney's Paddington Bazaar, markets are highly regarded as hotbeds of art, fashion and commerce. Now, thanks to San Francisco's Silverman Gallery, Look Boutique and design collective Citizen:Citizen, the Bay Area has a destination market of its own.
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Nice Music Collection

The designers behind Nice Collective, Joe Haller and Ian Hannula, continue to rock the music industry with their killer streetwear. Jamming since the mid-'90s techno and dance era, Nice Collective continue their musical association by collaborating with legendary rock stars on concert tees, music videos, and their own signature collections. This summer Nice Collective's unique graphic prints turned up on Rolling Stones' concert tees for their Forty Licks tour in Europe. The t-shirt designs are inventively screened with each city's name and the Stones' old album covers.  read more »
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