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VASF is the first in a number of RVCA retail flagships to open around the globe. Launched in September 2007, the store, situated on the iconic corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco, combines art, music, fashion and popular culture, offering an ideal platform to illustrate PM Tenore’s vision for the brand.
Acting as centre stage, VASF showcases the latest RVCA apparel collections as well as unique RVCA product collaborations with the likes of ANP Quarterly magazine, The Cobrasnake, Hamburger Eyes, Cinelli and Adam Wallacavage. Also supporting like-minded brands by members of the RVCA family, VASF stocks brands such as The Seventh Letter jewelry and Caleb Siemon glassware.
Complementing the RVCA product collection is an assortment of books, magazines, DVD’s, and music currated by RVCA Advocate’s Family. Family is Los Angeles’ leading underground book and music emporium, founded by Australian born owners, David Kramer, Sammy Harkham and Tahli Harkham.
VASF is the ultimate platform to share RVCA’s culture with the brand’s fan base. Showcasing the talents of RVCA’s ANP (Artist Network Program), VASF collaborates with ANP members on a wide variety of projects - Artist Josh Lazcano aka AMAZE executed a piece on the façade of the building prior to it’s opening while skateboarder come artist and ANP Quarterly editor Ed Templeton and ANP Artist Clare Rojas completed the window displays for the store’s opening. VASF also showcases world renowned artist Adam Wallacavages’ unique chandeliers which hang throughout the store.
The culmination of RVCA culture is the gallery space in VASF. The gallery is a special platform for ANP artists. Curating four key art shows each year, VASF aims to become a new and exciting source of art culture for the local community, working alongside the ANP and local artists and personalities on special projects and events.
VASF | 1485 Haight St | San Francisco, CA 94117 USA
P: 1 (415) 701 7822
Store Hours 11am – 7pm daily 
SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIENDs
CHECK OUT TWO OF OUR NEW EMPLOYEES, ALANNA HIGGINS, AND DYLAN ROGERS>> THERE IS A THIRD NEWBEE, BUT I’VE YET TO GET A PIC OF HIM ( MR. ROBERT GUY. )
-M.E
THREE CHEERS FOR JESSE SPEARS!
THE NEW WINDOW INSTILATION…YAY!!
IF YOU HAVNE’T ALREADY - PLEASE COME CHECK OUT OUR NEW WINDOW DISPLAY. IT’S ONLY UP TIL’ THE END OF THE MONTH, SO BE SURE TO TAKE IN ALL JESSE SPEARS’ FANTASTIC FANTASY LAND!
-M.E
Make Some Fabric Craftiness
It was sooo super fun! Thanks to everyone who participated!! I can’t wait for the next WORKSHOPS…
-M.E.
-M.E
WANT TO BE A WORLD FAMOUS ARTIST? GOOD LUCK!
I know that “Google is making us stupid” and that no one likes to read things longer than a few sentences, but read this. I’m SO going, even though I’m WAY too scared to participate. Think of how amazing/amazingly horrible this could be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, September 4th! SF MOMA! I WANT YOU!
SFMOMA’S LIVE ART PROGRAM PRESENTS
TONY LABAT’S “I WANT YOU”
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is gearing up for Tony Labat’s I WANT YOU, the latest installment in the new Live Art series. Beginning on September 4th artist Tony Labat invites denizens of the Bay Area to make their own demands of the public. Riffing on the iconic “I Want You” army recruitment campaigns of World Wars I and II, he asks what you would do if you had only one minute to seize the voice of authority, to be the finger-pointing Uncle Sam. How would you fill in the rest? I Want You . . .to do what? And what if your demands were performed before and voted on by a live audience?
On September 4, iyou can deliver one-minute monologues in solo auditions at SFMOMA. A week later, on September 11, fifty contestants chosen by the artist on the basis of these preliminary auditions will appear before a live audience and a host of documentary cameras. At the end of the evening, the audience will choose five winners. Poet and activist Jason Mateo, program director at Youth Speaks, will serve as emcee for the evening, and chanteuse Veronica Klaus will provide musical interludes between monologues and during post-performance vote-counting. Winners will have their images and monologues printed on an “I Want You” poster, to be put up around the city in the week leading up to the presidential election. You’ll also be featured in Labat’s new video project, I WANT YOU, screening at SFMOMA in November.
Register to perform by September 1st !!
Enter by emailing your contact information to edu@sfmoma.org.
Participation is free and open to the public.
Solo auditions will be held at SFMOMA’s Phyllis Wattis Theater on Thursday, September 4th, at 6:30 p.m.
Auditions are closed to the public; the 50 winning entrants will be notified via email.
JEN
شوخى, بازى, سرگرمى, خوشى, بازيچه
Did anyone watch Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Dennis Kucinich’s speaches at the DNC? I totally cried like 90 times. I really hope John McCain doesn’t become president and then totally destroy Iran. I’ve got a few reasons for this but one is definitely Mashroob & Moustaches, a blog run by three Iranian Women living in the United States: Rana Shoar, Sunny Shockrae and Sadaf Azimi. These three ladies are spot on when it comes to art, design, and being all around amazing women. Plus it’s really awesome when you get to learn about a place that you really know nothing about, and probably wont ever get to go to. Above is a picture of Sunny standing in front of a mural outside of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. Below is a woman in Tehran. I stole both from Sunny’s Myspace.
Check out the blog at: http://mashroobandmoustaches.blogspot.com/
JEN
Check them out at:
http://mashroobandmoustaches.blogspot.com/
ROCK AND ROLL AND ROLL AND ROLL
Thank GOD Jihaari and Jordan got it back together and are starting to do Roller Disco again at Mighty. It’s always tons of fun, even though you wake up looking like Amy Winehouse, all bruised up and hungover.
It’s also a good place to go and meet significant others, if I do say so myself.
JEN
GIRLS
Tonight I must encourage you to go this show:
Girls:
(who were just featured in Spin’s “Music You Need To Download” this month!!)
Bridez:
(members of Oh So Many White Tigers)
and
the Passionistas
see you there, dudes
JEN
ON RECORD
Another reason to come to VASF: we are one of the only places that you can pick up L.A. RECORD in San Francisco, free of charge. Come pick up the new issue that features Darker My Love on the front cover.
BTW, to twilight zone you for a minute, the #1 seller in LA RECORD’s online store is Brendan Fowler’s Project/band, BARR. Brendan is one the the editors and authors of ANP Quarterly. What an editorially incestuous world.
JEN
Make some signs!!!
JEFF CANHAM’S CLASS- SIGN PAINTING- WAS A SMASH HIT!!!
ALSO CHECK OUT THIS SITE THAT WROTE IT ALL UP:http://slamxhype.com/2008/08/make-something-workshops/
-M.E
