Sustainable style news from EcoSalon’s West Coast Fashion Editor.

Beauty Seeker – Check out LA’s newly opened “Eyescape” exhibit, by legendary London-based fashion photographer and founder of Dazed and Confused magazine, Rankin. The striking photographic series of a dozen or more large and close-up portraits of irises prompt intriguing insights into the nature of the proverb “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Rankin said himself, “Eyes are my favorite part of the body – eyes and getting the best out of them are my stock-in-trade as a portrait photographer, I’m constantly telling my subjects to feel something with their eyes.” A must see for all those interested in our culture’s unending fascination with what is beautiful.

Vintage Budget – “It’s hard to find the good stuff for cheap anymore,” is a common refrain among vintage clothing lovers. If this sounds familiar to you head down to the Helms Design District Vintage Boutique summer bargain event featuring no item over $50 on August 13, at the LightSpace Studio located 15 minutes from Santa Monica. Hosted by Clever Vintage Clothing, who are known for their incredible selection of classic, designer and repurposed women’s vintage clothing and jewelry. This is your opportunity to nab hard-to-find vintage at incredibly low prices.

Hats Off – Suffering from a case of Summer style doldrums? Take a leaf out of fashion icon, Isabella Blow’s book. Made famous by her habit of wearing dramatically eccentric hats, Blow declared “If I feel really low, I cover my face with a hat and feel fantastic… Wearing a hat is like cosmetic surgery.” Spend Saturday afternoon, August 13^th perusing the exquisite creations from some of the Bay areas best hat designers at Warehouse 416 in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood. It’s time to tip your topper to fashion’s most underrated accessory and discover the work of Jasmin Zorlu, Paul’s Hat Works, House of Nines Design, Kitty Andrews Millinery, Hey Sailor!, T.S. I Love You and Dollymop.

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San Francisco milliner, Jasmin Zorlu’s avant-garde hat line is hand crafted and designed for statement making entrances.

Yearning for some bohemian eccentricity in your wardrobe? Take a time machine back to London in the late ’60s to the land of the Biba girls, with their dark-lidded looks, vertiginous platforms and art nouveau-inspired fashions. Jasmin Zorlu’s cloche helmet hat made from eco-friendly pearlescent Nile Perch fish skin is the perfect foil to this fall’s fascination with that period’s decadent and dark palette of burgundy, mulberry and plum. Available in blue and other colors, custom order.

$ 750.00

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Sustainable style news from EcoSalon’s West Coast fashion correspondent.

Style, savvy? — Don’t miss Treasure Island Flea on Saturday, June 25, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m on — where else—Treasure island, San Francisco. In addition to the spectacular views from the Golden Gate to the Bay Bridge, you can pick your own stylish plunder from hundreds of local Bay Area resellers. Alongside antiques and collectibles, there will be independent designer merchandise, vintage clothes and accessories, art, specialty eats, local California wines and entertainment.  As you are already half way there, why not drop by Berkeley’s Rue Atelier for a Red Hot Trunk Show from 1-5 p.m., featuring the locally made designs of jeweler Alison Rutherfurd and milliner, Jasmin Zorlu?

PinBoard Wizards – Okay, Angelenos… As you will agree, looking good is serious business. The organized style seeker knows that keeping on top of inspiration, finding the season’s must-haves and planning a killer vacation wardrobe requires the help of Pinterest, a great new site that allows you to track all the beautiful stuff you see on the web. Come meet the talented folk at Pinterest for a drink at their first LA meetup at Urbanic Paper Boutique on Abbot Kinney this Thursday, June 23^rdfrom 6-9 p m.

Sample Sale — Check out Portland’s up-and-coming designers at Make + Show + Tell this Friday, June 24. The gallery event will be hosted at NW Portland’s Warehouse Loading Dock area from 5-10 p.m. Daring to venture beyond the limits of your GPS has its payoffs, with first access to local designers and their latest work including furniture, jewelry and accessories at sample sale prices. Designers including Moonwoods, Merkled Studio, Fix Studio, Logan laboratories and Askew Designs.

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