When Coco Chanel spoke the words “Fashion passes, style remains” she couldn’t have known how relevant it would be 50 years on. With every season, we see more colours, collections and styles than ever before. As fashion moves faster and faster, the concept of clothing hasn’t changed much in over 100 years. Textiles still cover … Continue reading
Wearable tech designer Billie Whitehouse, who is also co-founder of Wearable Experiments, spoke at PSFK CONFERENCE 2014 about her goal to give what we wear intelligence and more purpose. Her first major project was Fundawear, vibrating underwear that transmits touch over the Internet for couples who are apart from each other. A awkwardly fun product, … Continue reading
Is the concept of clothing on the verge of a dramatic shift? Is the fashion industry about to experience the same digitization as the music industry once did? Or will we return to creating fewer quality garments and caring for what we wear? Will cotton and leather become a memory when we learn how to … Continue reading
Together with Klepierre, DigitasLBi Labs created “Inspiration Corridor” to illustrate the ongoing revolution and future opportunities for unique shopping experiences in shopping centres. An infra-red Kinect camera analyses individual visitors as they enter the “Inspiration Corridor”, thanks to body scanning technology. A device equipped with QUIVIDI video analysis and PigData product recommendation scans the users … Continue reading
Hosted by Design Wales, The Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay was the venue earlier today of The Colour & Trend conference for Autumn Winter 2014/15. Presented by Matthew Jeatt of Promostyl, the meeting space was rammed to the hilt with delegates that were a mix of creatives, fashion professionals, industry heads, student and us, … Continue reading
A snap from the Design, Art & Fashion Fair (DAFF) in Shanghai during the Mid-Autumn Festival last week at the Shanghai waterfront. [Photos by Mike Cornelus courtesy of The Ice Cream Truck via Shanghaiist] Continue reading
Get a girl to model guys clothes? Yeah, why not… The new Men’s Lookbook from Goodhood – The Art Of Looking Sideways – is right on it. With creative direction from The Goodhood Store and photography by Two of Swords, it features Francesca Chantell in modelling mode. The result? Authentic feel, androgynous appeal, relaxed-luxe… class. Continue reading
Pop icon David Robert Jones is one of the most influential performers of modern times and is being celebrated with the first international retrospective in London, UK. You may not know him by that name, so how about The Thin White Duke…? The Starman…? Ziggy Stardust…? If not, then David Bowie? Ah. Curated by the … Continue reading
In the midst of a two-decade period which kicked off the 21st century, there still seems some confusion as to a universally agreed-upon name for these times: the naughts, aughts, zeros, oh-ohs, or 2000s; tens, tweens and teens. How will we look back in, say, 2033 and define the age without a name, much less … Continue reading
Fashion world turned on it’s (immaculately coiffure’d) head…? Strike a Pose… Not Vogue – Read more on the Second Sight Blog. Continue reading
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