[Interview]

Gwen Bates

Meeting the new organizer of Fashion Week San Diego

Gwen Bates has bought the organization known as Fashion Week San Diego from its storied founder Allison Andrews sometime around the start of 2020 I think just as the Covid shutdown descended. FWSD made it though that whole scene and now it’s back. This interview was conducted impromptu as the set was packing up the night of the runway show in downtown San Diego, April 22, 2023.