June 2009
6 posts
Shorts Go 4th!
They sold out at Bloomingdale’s and we’ve had people clamoring for them ever since. Now they’re available directly from Distilled. We’re releasing our Side Panel & One Pocket Cargo Shorts just in time for your holiday BBQ this weekend. Distilled Super Fan Erik U. (real customer) emailed us this note about our Side Panel Shorts:
“i just wanted to send a note...
Let Me Introduce You To... Joanna
Three years ago I was lured by the hum of machines down a back alley and into an unmarked building - generally not a good idea on Capp Street. There I was greeted by the warm smile of Joanna. A complete and fortunate coincidence, Joanna’s sewing shop was just a half block down Capp from Distilled’s studio. Since that day she has become our primary resource for sewing Distilled. To...
WatchWhile I shot photos Natalie shot video (props Natalie). Enjoy.
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San Francisco Summer Scarf
Mark Twain said “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” So true.
Distilled comes to the rescue with the San Francisco Summer Scarf™!
Washed for softness, wrinkled for texture and cut to just the right length for casual wear, it adds a smart splash of color, washes easy and like many of this great city’s residents, it’s cool with both girls and boys.
Best of all, it’s...
Auction for Carol
Please take a minute to support a friend of Distilled, Carol Decker, who lost her legs below the knee, her left arm and her vision due to complications during an emergency cesarean section on June 10th last year. The baby she delivered, Safiya, as well as young Chloe and husband Scott are all doing well but there are hospital bills that need to be paid and nearly $80k in rehab for Carol that is...
Hot Models Strip to Support the Arts
Distilled donated a look to The Lab’s annual fundraiser Thread/Bare where audience members bid on the clothing a model is wearing on the catwalk. The model removes each garment as it is purchased. I honestly didn’t expect this to be as raunchy as it was. A member of The Lab’s Board of Directors was the first model and she was definitely not not hot. Go The Lab.
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May 2009
7 posts
Distilled
Distilled is lucky. We have great friends, friends like Yanda. I took a picture of Yanda and he emailed me to ask if he could post it to Facebook with the caption “I <3 distilled”.
Hells yes. You can definitely do that Yanda. In fact we’ll do one better. We’ll take that photo and add your sentiment to the image itself. I think you’re on to something here.
Do...
Sneak Preview of Distilled's First Shoot with... a...
Distilled has gone unisex. And not just casual, experimented-in-college unisex. We’ve gone full on lady crazy. The full spread of photos will be available when we launch our first ever product for both men and women, the San Francisco Summer Scarf. Until then enjoy this set of photos by Distilled’s own Media Czar in Residence, N.Haddox.
Self Edge - Historic Jeans
My brother can quote the score of every Superbowl game ever played; NFL Football is just something that he is really, really into. Take that and times it by 100 and you have Kiya Babzani’s passion for denim. Kiya runs Self Edge, an unassuming shop on Valencia at 18th St. that sells the world’s most sought after denim. Europeans fly to San Francisco just to shop at Self Edge. Why?...
Miniature Monsters
Our dear friends and Distilled fashion icons at TacoLab have already outdone their recent chat about Siftables at a little forum known as TED. This time they’ve unleashed a mysterious fury of monsters across the internets. These Miniture Monsters are generated once a day via time machine by the eponymous Prof. Engd and are managed by Mstr. Kalanithi. They’ve been arriving since...
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Splish!
Our great friends at Tsunami Water Polo asked Distilled to participate in their annual fundraiser, SPLISH. We made a splash of course. Ok. Enough aqua-onomatopoeia.
See more photos by our own Natalie Haddox at Distilled’s Facebook page.
Everyone Thinks We're Crazy
Everyone, especially people in the garment industry, thinks we’re crazy. I spent last week at the Global Tex International Textile Show in LA where I spoke with many textile manufacturers who said there wasn’t a cottonball’s chance in hell we could make a garment from seed to store within the state of California. That means grown here, spun here, knitted here, cut here, sewn...
Thanks Sydney!
I thought Distilled owned the key word combo “preppy” + “San Francisco”. Turns out we didn’t. Some punk who went to Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep does. Until now. Thanks to our friend Sydney and the folks at Out.com, if you search those two terms you’ll find this fun article on Out.com about Preppy styles in SF and our ever popular cotton ties. Wear ‘em,...
April 2009
5 posts
Our Friend Mark is Effing Awesome
Mark and I met at summer camp where I shaved his chest. We were adults at the time. Now Mark is doing even more interesting things. Like hanging out back stage at a John Galliano runway show and taking pictures that turn the nearly nude models there into real life Alice In Wonderland. Mark was written up in both New York Magazine and Vanity Fair this week. The New York Magazine slide show is a...
Distilled Saves Your Future Progeny
When I was still working at Google, one of my colleagues, Uygar, never kept his cell phone with him. I asked him what the use was of a cell phone if he never brought it around. He said he was worried about the radiation from the cell phone in his pocket hurting his family jewels. I asked him if I made a pant whose pockets were lined with tin foil, if he would wear it, and he said that not...
Thanks to All the Folks!
Big ups to all the peeps who came out to support Distilled at Bloomingdale’s last weekend. It was a super fun, especially the part where Sep drank 4 Red Bulls and kept telling Dino Ray of the Examiner.com that my mustache is the source of all of my power. I am the Sampson of mustaches. Oh, and the part where Dave Chappelle came by. That was pretty cool.
Distilled Bloomingdale's Event
In Fall of 2007, at the Project trade show, we were introduced by a friend of ours to the Paige, the Young Men’s Buyer at Bloomingdale’s. She came by our booth and really liked the clothing. She said, “I’ll be right back.” Thirty minutes later she returned with a half a dozen gentlemen in suits, Bloomingdale’s execs. They quickly took up every bit of space in...
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