Puma Road
Raise your glass and sip fine complimentary selections from the Puma Road Winery, see you on the stage!
The Franscioni family has worked the Salinas Valley soil for four generations. In the early 1890s, Silvio Franscioni Sr. settled a ranch outside of Gonzales with his beloved wife Maria and their children. What began as a dairy operation developed into a row crop farm. The owner of Puma Road winery, Ray Franscioni–Silvio’s grandson, is keeping the farming tradition vibrant and alive. His business ambitions reached beyond raising dairy cows and farming lettuce. While growing 6,000 acres of row crops, he decided to embark on a vineyard operation in the early 1990s.
For more than 20 years, Franscioni has been a prominent grape-grower in the Monterey County region. His operation has evolved into growing 2,000 acres of vines while continuing the family row crop business. About half of the grape yield is grown in the Santa Lucia Highlands; the other portion grows in the Paicines AVA.
About a decade after becoming grape growers, the Franscioni’s decided to craft wine themselves. The family produced their first vintage in 2003 under the label RF Wines. More than a decade later, Puma Road Winery now produces 4,500 cases per year. They proudly continue to grow 15 varietals. The winery is a thriving, local-based establishment that strongly reflects the Santa Lucia Highlands as well as the Paicines AVA. The earthy flavors and rich minerality of the soils create the unique wines one can only experience at Puma Road down the River Road Wine Trail.
We invite you to visit our Santa Lucia Highlands tasting room, situated on the original homestead the Franscioni family settled so many years ago. Experience the hospitality and local knowledge upon which we pride ourselves.
Jason E.C. Wright | Performance Artist
Jason E.C. Wright brings a story to life through narrative spoken word, exploring the intersection of performance art, modest fashion, & cinematic storytelling.
Angela Lindvall: Beauty Begins in Me with Co-Creator Kayren Pace
Model, social entrepreneur, and activist Angela Lindvall along with co-creator Kayren Pace take us on a journey of inner discovery in this immersive session. The goal is to embrace our natural beauty and the miracle of our body’s self-healing, regenerative powers in understanding that existence in itself is beautiful.
Join us in an experiential session involving a soothing sound bath, a stimulating Pranayama using Breath of Fire, and an enlightening guided meditation to align our heart, mind, and will. Experience an awakening of your senses with Angela and Kayrens natural plant-derived oils as you inhale the good and exhale the bad.
This will be followed by an intimate Salon gathering where we’ll explore the idea that real beauty stems from knowledge and the light within. We’ll delve into how our values drive our choices and impact society and the environment around us, and how this shapes our current and future reality.
Join us in rediscovering your inner beauty.
Heineken LAFF Lounge
For those 21+ have a seat in “Swinging Tables” and enjoy LAFF Docu Official Selections and NOWNESS films. Drinks are on us! We’re serving up Heineken, Heineken Light and Heineken 0.0 (alcohol free).
Rava Wines
A Rava Wines ambassador will be on Stage A pouring their signature wines in govinos, complimentary, as well as to talk all things wine, cheers!
Located in the El Pomar AVA in the heart of Paso Robles Wine Country, Rava Wines + Events is the place for celebrations and live entertainment. The Rava’s, a third-generation farming family, has taken their expertise into the cellar crafting sparkling wines in the traditional méthode champenoise style. Experience Rava’s intimate wine country venue and discover a blend of modern hospitality, fine wines and your place for celebrations.
The Rava’s own more than 1,200 acres of premium vineyards that span from the foothills of the Santa Lucia Range in Monterey County to the Rava Estate in the heart of Paso Robles Wine Country. Owner, Chad Rava oversees and manages all vineyard operations, new plantings and harvest decisions. By having a hand in all production processes, the Rava’s are able to focus on terroir driven quality and their signature sparkling wines.
Virtual Super Land
Virtual Super Land is at the intersection of fashion and technology and leverages green screen technology to cleverly jump between the physical and digital world, exploring the idea of ‘hyperreality.’ A collection of streetwear pieces complimented by the VSL camera app interplay with the user’s perception of reality in an engaging, shareable way designed for a social media savvy generation. Progressive, Innovative Direction. VSL was created in 2018 by former fashion editor + creative director, Orsolya Szabo and self-taught motion graphics designer Natasha Smith. At the heart of the brand is the women’s personal journey; they wanted a voice in spheres where there is a disparity in female representation; animation and streetwear. Inclusivity and accessibility are core tenants of VSL as the founders wanted to make green screen technology digestible and accessible for all while creating a collection that appeals to a streetwear sensibility.
LA Fashion Festival 2019 Debuts Matthew Rolston’s “Hollywood Royale: Out of the School of Los Angeles” as a First-Ever Untethered Virtual Reality Gallery Experience, Presented by The Mill
LA Fashion Festival 2019 Debuts Matthew Rolston’s “Hollywood Royale: Out of the School of Los Angeles” as a First-Ever Untethered Virtual Reality Gallery Experience, Presented by The Mill
Glamour, high technology, sustainability and style come together in a unique form at LAFF19: a virtual reality gallery experience of celebrity photographer Matthew Rolston’s 1980s retrospective exhibition, “Hollywood Royale: Out of the School of Los Angeles.” Utilizing Oculus Quest, the latest in untethered headset technology, The Mill, an international leader in VFX and creative content, has authored this first-of-its-kind moment in Hollywood history.
From Michael Jackson to Madonna, from Prince to George Michael, Cyndi Lauper and many more, the portraits of Hollywood Royale comprise a literal ‘who’s-who’ of ‘80s pop culture, commissioned largely for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine and Jann Wenner’s Rolling Stone. Matthew Rolston’s influential photographic approach will be displayed in a hyper-realistic three-dimensional virtual gallery space. Don a headset and take an intimate ‘journey’ through Rolston’s photographs, curated and guided by the artist himself, as he narrates some of the personal stories behind these timeless images.
Rolston’s Hollywood Royale VR gallery will be on display September 20-21 at the Los Angeles Fashion Festival, an innovative showcase for the very latest in film, innovation, beauty and retail. In accordance with the theme of its 2019 season, LAFF believes sustainability shouldn’t be a luxury; it should be a way of life.
Sustainability can be expressed in many forms, and one of them, according to Rolston, is “the sustainability of cultural memory.” Rolston’s photographs of the 1980s are highly inflected by the visual history of Hollywood’s Golden Age, and as such, help to sustain the cinema city’s traditions of high style and theatricality.
Featured Artist: One of a handful of artists to emerge in the 1980s from Andy Warhol’s celebrity-focused Interview magazine, Matthew Rolston has since become a well-established icon of Hollywood photography. Alongside such image-makers as Greg Gorman and Herb Ritts, Rolston was a member of an influential group of photographers (among them, Bruce Weber, Annie Leibovitz, and Steven Meisel) who came from the ‘80s magazine scene. Rolston’s work has helped define the contemporary aesthetics of American portraiture; his 1980s images are notable for their glamorous lighting and detail-rich sets. Rolston’s photographs have been exhibited worldwide and are in the permanent collections of LACMA and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., among others. The works in Hollywood Royale are exclusively represented in the United States by Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles.
Experience Producer: Poised as a cornerstone of LA fashion events, LA Fashion Festival (LAFF) showcases progressive ideas via an immersive cultural experience of film, retail, innovation, and beauty influences. Founded on the basis of inclusion, sustainability, and community, LAFF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit platform produced by The kulturspace Foundation for forward-thinking creatives & brands to showcase collaborations and incite meaningful exchanges.
Immersion Producer: With studios across three continents, The Mill, an international leader in high-technology entertainment, content creation and VFX, is made up of artists, technologists, and makers for all media, working at the frontiers of visual narrative. Built on the bedrock of cinematic legacy and high-profile fashion commercial work, The Mill uses virtual and augmented realities to imagine and build the future of interactive and immersive experiences.