Girlfriends in the press

Seventeen Magazine (May 1999)

Connecticut Post (Sunday, October 19, 1997)
Featured the article, “Where girlfriends go to shop.”

Las Vegas Sun (Sunday, October 26, 1997)
Featured the article, “Store keeps girlfriends close through shopping together.”

Mornings on Two (May 1996)
San Francisco morning show (KTVU) filmed a “where to shop” episode in girlfriends store. This featured informal modeling and discussion with various girlfriends shoppers regarding why they love to shop there!

Northwest in the Afternoon (February 1996)
Seattle talk show held an on-air phone interview with Susan Exposito, discussing the meaning of girlfriends. This was produced in conjunction with the authors of Girlfriends Invisible Bonds, Enduring Ties.

On San Francisco (May 1994)
Featured a two-page article on girlfriends boutique.

A couple of years after they graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, Katherine Ribarich and Susan Exposito started talking about career plans. “We wanted to open a clothing store where you could sit on the sofa, drink coffee and hang out with your girlfriends,” says Ribarich.

They rented a cozy shop in San Francisco—and bought a sofa-but they couldn’t think of a good name. “Then one day I phoned Susan and said, ‘Hey, girlfriend,’ and she said, ‘That’s it –that’s what we’ll call our store!’”
Ribarich’s sister designed a colorful girlfriends logo, and they printed them on promotional T-shirts that they planned to give away at the store’s opening. “But on our opening day, our first sale was to a woman who bought 10 of those T-shirts for herself and all her friends,” say Exposito, 31.

“We didn’t have to give them away- which told us we were on to something.” Now the logo appears on 25 girlfriends products- from mugs and sweatshirts to caps, totes and water bottles- which are sold at the original shop and a new branch in Portland, Oregon.

“We’ve both met some of our closest friends through this store,” says Exposito.“Maybe it’s the name.” -Glamour Magazine