Zac Posen
Executive Vice President, Creative Director of Gap Inc. and Chief Creative Officer of Old Navy
Zac Posen has spent much of his life thinking about how people want to feel when they enter a room. Confident, certainly. Seen, maybe. A little transformed. Fashion has always been part design, part psychology that way.
Now, as Executive Vice President and Creative Director of Gap Inc. and Chief Creative Officer of Old Navy, Zac moves between worlds easily: luxury and mass culture, runway and everyday life, spectacle and utility. But there is still something observational about the way he talks about creativity, as if he’s less interested in trends than in the small details people remember years later. The lighting in a theater lobby. A crowded dinner after a performance. The particular kind of fog that softens San Francisco at night.
His picks reflect that sensibility — places with atmosphere, character, and a strong point of view. Rooms that still understand the value of occasion.
Venue Picks
The SF War Memorial & Performing Arts Center is the West Coast’s answer to Lincoln Center – a grand civic stage where opera, ballet, and the
symphony converge at the highest level, anchoring San Francisco as atrue global capital of the performing arts. Its timeless elegance and cultural
gravitas make it the beating heart of performance on the Pacific.
With its grand reopening next month (February 2026), The Castro Theatre once again takes its place as the heart of this historic neighborhood, blending its preserved character with a renewed sense of excitement for what’s ahead.
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The Tonga Room is a mid-century Polynesian tiki bar that first opened in 1945 in the basement of the Fairmont Hotel. At its center is an artificial
lagoon where a three-member band plays popular hits from a floating barge, and about every thirty minutes, a simulated rainstorm cascades
from the ceiling.