On the forecast for the week ahead: no fewer than three notable fashion and tech events, several parties and lots of ways to hang out at the intersection of fashion, digital style and technology. I would have liked to have done extensive posts on each of these events separately, but I’m traveling this week and, [...]
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Goodbye snoozy conference recaps of the past: the LuckyFABB social media wall is a great example of the ways event organizers are amplifying the conversations taking place during (or simply inspired by) their gatherings. Powered by realtime social software company Livefyre, the media wall is part of the magazine’s two-day LuckyFABB conference for fashion bloggers, [...]
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If you thought fashion tech only happens in New York or San Francisco, think again. Later this week, Texas welcomes its very first fashion hack. During the rewardStyle Hackathon, the Dallas-based platform beloved by high-profile fashion bloggers for turning their linkage into dollars will open its doors to developers, designers and fashion-minded folks with creative [...]
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Instead of taking you to school, the Warby Parker Class Trip bus aims to educate you in eyewear. Rolling into San Francisco last week, the retrofitted orange behemoth will spend its days as part of Hayes Valley’s Proxy project [Update: permit issues have caused the bus to move to 768 Sansome in the FiDi as [...]
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I’m not at SXSW this year (and a big boo hoo to that, but with a three-month-old and a ton of work to do, it wasn’t in the cards), but if I were, there’s no doubt I’d be spending much of my time at The Neighborhood, which is a showcase of style-centric panels, pop-up shops [...]
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If you’re not at SXSW, and you’re focused on fashion and technology, you’re probably either already in possession of or pining for a ticket to Wednesday night’s Fashion 2.0 Awards. The annual event from Style Coalition founder Yuli Ziv is known as the first and only awards ceremony celebrating digital innovation by fashion brands. The [...]
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