Well, some of us are not good at blogging and some of us have had a rough year, and some of us have been super busy, and some of us have been on the road and movin and a groovin......................but we're still here.............please check out our pages and keep checking in here! Many of us are vending fairly regularly!
Always to discuss the business of the day, or the problems of the world, or aliens, or why wont it stop raining.............sometimes it takes hours to plough through everything we need to talk about: Vending gigs, promotion, benefits, marketing, admin, agenda and action items. We travel from all points of the Greater Bay Area.
We have fun, but if you want to be successful, you have to really be organized and communicate clearly. Sometimes everyone agrees on a certain thing, sometimes we have to compromise, sometimes we all have personal agenda that we need to focus on instead.............but the food does help........the meetings cant happen without the food............
We cant do business without a spread. Its not allowed.
Fashion Shows are often a lot of hard work to put together. And when you have several designers working on it at once, and everyone is backstage with their various jobs that are required to pull off a little show like this, we actually have no or a very limited idea of what this looks like from the audience. As seasoned performers and artists who have had a lot of background in stage performing, we can visualize how we want it to look. We can stage it how we want the models to walk. We can direct the models in what we want them to do. We can talk to stage and lighting crew and get the most we can out of what's available at each venue. But we cant sit in the audience and watch. Not yet. So here is our show and we hope you like it!
You can contact any of the designers and artists by clicking on their pages or going to: salomes.suitcase@gmail.com
We are very happy to say that despite the club lighting, this looks pretty amazing! We do pull some great looks together. We work well together, we problem solve without too much ego getting in the way, and we have a lot of fun!
Its also nice to have dancers available who know how to pose, move, and show off the outfits with relative ease - they can tell a story with what they are wearing and make it look easy.
Thank you to Ariellah for inviting us to participate in ShadowDance as both vendors and entertainment!
Thank you to the models for your patience, and for your grace and beauty!
Thank you to Jessie Cowan ofCrops and Bobbers for your uber amazing hair and makeup!
Thank you to Melanie Shapiro for assisting with hair and makeup!
Thank you to Bellyscape for the video!
And we thank ourselves/each other at Salome's Suitcase - this is a rare group of strong creative women who work very hard to make the world a nicer looking journey for you.
Its almost time to start thinking about the next Tribal Fest Afterparty Fashion Show for 2011, but until then, here are some photos taken by Sequoia Emmanuelle of some of our models in their finery worn during the last one. If you have questions regarding anything you see in these photos, please email us at: salomes.suitcase@gmail.com
Designers:
KathleenCrowleyCostumeCouture
Katherine Summer
Foolproof Studio
HiBeam Bindis
Medina Maitreya
Minerva's Antennae
Rose Harden
Models:
Giselle Sibyl
Steven Eggers
Sherri Wheatley
Aubre
Kristine Adams
Rose Harden
Sandi Ball
Kami Liddle
Zoe Jakes
Wendy Golden
The Ladies of TribalTique
Some members of Salome's Suitcase have been meeting up in Crockett, California these days...........because quite a few of us live here now or live nearby. Its a very cool little town about 15 minutes from Berkeley - or the bay bridge. Nothing much goes on during the week, which is a great plus if you are a designer needing not so much distraction from your work! Despite some of our pleas, the rest of the collective are happy to live in San Francsico or thereabouts. Fine. Be that way...........
But for those who can meet up for stitchin and bitchin, Port Costa, the little town next door that time forgot, is a great way to meet up and have a drink and it has the best stale popcorn ever!
When we last went to the Port Costa Warehouse for a bit of inspiration, Katherine Summer asked the barkeep for the keys to the Burlington Hotel across the street. Some of us have been wanting to do a photo shoot there for some time. It is purported to be haunted and to be an old brothel. The names of the girls on the doors give it away......
We let ourselves in and started snooping around. Tacky carpet aside, we see the potential. Its a pretty great location. I mean, look at that wallpaper.Yeah.
Tribal Fest is over and life is back to normal for all of us - whatever that means.
Many of us didn't vend at Tribal Fest itself this year, but preferred to vend at the Beats Antique Show that Thursday night, at the Hopmonk Tavern in Sebastopol, and then for two nights at the Tribal Fest Afterparty - same venue - hosted by DJ Amar.
Friday night was our first fashion show as a collective and it went off without a hitch. We did a lot of planning, organizing, model wrangling, crazed construction and sewing beforehand - and despite our hectic schedules (Rose went and got married the weekend before!) we pulled together an amazing show. Thanks to everyone for all their hard work. Thank you to Amar. Thanks to the Hopmonk Tavern (and their lovely meals!). And thank you so much to our beautiful models who had to stand half naked in the cold before they went on...........photos coming soon!
We always pull a great little space together wherever we go. Each of us brings our unique tastes, flair, and expertise to the table - literally - to produce ambiance and a unique shopping experience several grades up from your average festival vending. We are genuinely happy to see you again, meet you firsthand, and show you what we do!
But at night - with Lee's vintage lamps, and everyones' mirrors, props and merchandise, the booth pops! Its such a pretty place to come and hang out at. We actually like being there and it doesn't feel like work. Well, after we've set up that is...........please support your vendors - all of them (not just us!!!) at least say hi - because we all travel to get there - to get to YOU - and the overhead can be mighty steep to say the least! Its actually very hard work schlepping, setting up, taking down, packing, unpacking, and repacking, but we do get to have a lot of fun! "Work" does have its perks! We all hung out at Tribal Fest during the day, some of us worked, performed, some shmoozed, some of us even took a much needed little road trip through the woods and to the sea!
For shopping / vending / interviewing/ order inquiries, contact us at salomes.suitcase@gmail.com
Or go to the right and click on our names. This should take you where you want to go!
Its that Tribal Fest time of the year! Instead of vending at Tribal Fest this year, Salome's Suitcase will be the featured design collective at the Tribal Fest Afterparty!
We not only will be vending, but we are having an off the hook fashion show on Friday, May 24th!!! Many of your favorite performers will be our models! New looks! Surprises!!!! You had better save your dollars for us - dont spend it all at Tribal Fest!!!!
Vendors participating this year at the TF Afterparty are:
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