Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
About
What is it? The Mission Indie- Mart is a bi-monthly marketplace that has quickly grown from an underground backyard shopping party into a popular monthly event featuring a tantalizing combination of shopping, music, and food. This event showcases truly independent local designers, offering everything from one of a kind fashions and reconstructed vintage to offbeat crafts, handmade jewelry and fun antiques. Enjoy cheap beer, hot plates, local DJs and the cream of the crop of SF’s indie designer scene.
How’d it start? Well, I got tired of going to the flea market, craft fairs & trunk shows as separate events and decided to throw a party that offers the best of all 3. Pepper in some great homemade BBQ food, cupcakes, cheap beers, great local DJ’s that know how to throw down….and the first Indie-Mart was born.
I also had to get creative fast….my career was set back a bit when I was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer in the Spring. All of a sudden I was home all the time, going through treatments, not working and needed a creative outlet to keep positive (and to pay rent). I started selling killer vintage clothes & my own designs at the Alameny Flea Market. I quickly started building a customer base that wanted to shop at the house. At the same time, I had a lot of friends and people I was meeting that were just starting out their own labels and designs. I gathered a few people I used to work with at the Gap, some folks I met through the flea market and trunk shows….posted handmade fliers all over town and myspace…and voila you have the first Indie- Mart.
I was lucky enough to meet Charles, my partner in crime in all this, at the Flea Market as he grazed some vintage jackets. With both if us partnered up, we have more than doubled the success of the event every month. After 4 short months, the Indie- Mart has grown to over 40 local vendors and over 400 attendees. Before I knew it the Indie- Mart blew up into what it is now and I beat cancer and created an event I dreamed of for years. Not too bad, huh!
What’s next? We will continue to bring you the Mission Indie- Mart and next year plan to expand to a range of venues and neighborhoods, bringing you a great party, the best of local and new vendors, great food & killer music.
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on Sunday, November 18th, 2007 at 12:33 pm:
when’s the next one? I missed the one in October and would love to go!
on Monday, April 28th, 2008 at 11:04 am:
i’m trying to find the designer i purchased jewelry from yesterday (4/27) at 12 Galaxies. She personalizes metal discs with a stamp of your choice and also has tiny charms to attach to the necklaces as well.
i was hoping you could send me her info.
thanks!