News: Michelle Phan’s Fawn Launches, Google’s Geek Glasses, Phablets + More

FAWN (For All Women Network) is the new YouTube channel from online beauty video queen Michelle Phan and friends.

•  YouTube beauty sensation Michelle Phan divulged details of her new FAWN (For All Women Network) project, a media company that will create beauty, fashion and lifestyle content as part of YouTube’s original programming initiative. P.S. Her last name’s pronounced “fawn,” so it makes even more sense. via Michelle Phan
• A Netflix-style platform may be on the way for fashion magazines. via Complex
• Moda Operandi founder Aslaug Magnusdottir talks fashion and technology via Fashion Etc.
• Google caused no small amount of buzz this week with the release of super top secret Google X’s Google Project Glass, best-described as augmented reality headgear that looks something like a pair of spectacles, only without the spectacles. The consensus thus far: these newfangled thingies are amazingly cool, but man, do they look geeky. via Venture Beat
• It’s not a phone…it’s not a tablet…it must be a phablet. via MSNBC
• What the digitally stylish have long known is finally becoming widespread knowledge: the online apparel space is seriously h-h-hot. via All Things Digital
• Not that there is any evidence that anyone would ever want to wear such a thing, but there is a dress called Intimacy 2.0 that will turn from opaque to transparent based on its wearer’s arousal level. And people say fashion is frivolous. via Daily Mail
• Here’s a gig that’s probably outside the bounds of most fashion models’ standard contracts: vamping for a product while falling out of a plane flying 126 mph. But that’s exactly what mobile phone maker HTC asked of its models during a recent photo shoot. via The Telegraph

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