Fashion sense
EVAN KINORI • Evan Kinori
WORK • Wednesday Routine
EVAN KINORI • designer/owner • Evan Kinori
Neighborhood you work in: The Mission
It’s Wednesday morning, what's the scene at your workplace?
We’re a small team of four to six people, depending on the day, and start around 10/1030a at our studio, which is in the back half of the store. The studio functions as a design office (patternmaking, fabric research, sample sewing/development), regular office, warehouse for inventory, and we have a studio mate who’s a handweaver, and their loom is in there as well. It can be a lot happening in one room.
What’s on the agenda for today?
We're receiving the new garment production for spring/summer, which we’ll shoot for the website next week in our studio. I'm also working on fabric selection and development for next spring, and we’re finalizing the production for this fall’s collection.
Any restaurant plans today, tonight, this weekend?
I wanted to check something in Berkeley this weekend — so if we make it to the East Bay, then it’s a great chance to eat at any of the following: Saul’s Delicatessen, June’s Pizza, Soba Ichi, Ippuku, or Shangri-La (one of my favorite lunches).
How about a little leisure or culture?
Most weekends, we drive north to walk in the Marin Headlands, or further to Inverness/Point Reyes Seashore — the nature exploration is pretty endless around the Bay Area — or sometimes, we’ll stay in the city, and go to the William Stout bookshop or Forest Books in Japantown.
Any weekend getaways planned?
In warmer weather, driving up to Humboldt is hard to beat — rivers to swim in, redwoods to walk through, and pretty easy to find quiet spots with fewer people around. For something easier/quicker, a hike and lunch at The Pelican Inn.
What was your last great vacation?
A week in Kyoto, at the end of a pretty intense work trip/journey — just sitting down on a bench at a quiet, less frequented temple called Honen-In for an hour was a major highlight.
Is there a product or service you recommend locally?
Besides the above, I usually recommend Presidio Heights home goods store MARCH, Outta Sight Pizza, and Zuni Cafe.
Photo: Evan Kinori.