Lireille Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Art |
Cari Borja
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completed in May 2001. A self-taught designer, she held her first runway show
collection of all-white looks at SNOW II and all-black looks at Black V, both runway
looks at the Telluride AIDS Benefit, Global Green, Red Cross's Paint the Town Red
location in Cuba with photographer Jock McDonald, at the Djerassi Ranch with Claudia
Goetzelmann, a local 4th street Berkeley shoot with German photographer Heike Liss,
Cari's clothes have been featured in local (SF Chronicle, Diablo Magazine, SF
Magazine, 7x7, SFis, Oakland Tribune and Where) and national press (International
Herald Tribune, Ornament Magazine, Boho, Lucky, Four Seasons, Artworks, Shuz and
Marie Claire). Cari started her BABY ROYAL infant and children's line in Spring of
2003, her BABY AUGUST infant line in Fall 2008 and her BONOBO bamboo line Fall
2008. She also has an accessories line of scarves and fabric bracelets, necklaces and
hair pieces that is made from the scraps of her seasonal collection fabrics.
Borja's unique pieces, all of which are made in her Berkeley studio, are highly sought
after and are available off the rack in her retail store on 4th street in Berkeley, or in
specialized boutiques in the Bay Area including Redbird and Sala in Berkeley and
Rabat in Noe Valley and Chestnut Street in San Francisco. Borja's clients include
academics and intellectuals, soon to be moms and newborn children, socialites,
musicians and actors, visionaries and writers - essentially women who like to feel
beautiful in their bodies.
collection of all-white looks at SNOW II and all-black looks at Black V, both runway
looks at the Telluride AIDS Benefit, Global Green, Red Cross's Paint the Town Red
location in Cuba with photographer Jock McDonald, at the Djerassi Ranch with Claudia
Goetzelmann, a local 4th street Berkeley shoot with German photographer Heike Liss,
Cari's clothes have been featured in local (SF Chronicle, Diablo Magazine, SF
Magazine, 7x7, SFis, Oakland Tribune and Where) and national press (International
Herald Tribune, Ornament Magazine, Boho, Lucky, Four Seasons, Artworks, Shuz and
Marie Claire). Cari started her BABY ROYAL infant and children's line in Spring of
2003, her BABY AUGUST infant line in Fall 2008 and her BONOBO bamboo line Fall
2008. She also has an accessories line of scarves and fabric bracelets, necklaces and
hair pieces that is made from the scraps of her seasonal collection fabrics.
Borja's unique pieces, all of which are made in her Berkeley studio, are highly sought
after and are available off the rack in her retail store on 4th street in Berkeley, or in
specialized boutiques in the Bay Area including Redbird and Sala in Berkeley and
Rabat in Noe Valley and Chestnut Street in San Francisco. Borja's clients include
academics and intellectuals, soon to be moms and newborn children, socialites,
musicians and actors, visionaries and writers - essentially women who like to feel
beautiful in their bodies.
