Microsoft’s Geek 2 Chic Fashion Show brought fashion and technology together at San Francisco’s Westfield Centre earlier this month for a showing of spring and summer looks from Bloomingdale’s worn not by pro models, but people plucked from the local tech scene. While the event has visited other cities, this was its first Bay Area [...]
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I recently tried Printic, a photo printing app that allows you to have images from your iPhone printed for $.99 and shipped for free with or without a custom message to the recipient of your choice. Originally launched in France, the company has opened a shipping facility in Berkeley, Calif., so they’re able to get [...]
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When it comes to wearable tech, you won’t find many fashion designers more schooled in space than Amy Winters, whose Rainbow Winters line ranges from more traditional dresses in digitally-printed fabrics to high-impact performer-friendly pieces capable of responding to light, sound and sun. Fresh from London’s fabulously geeky Kinetica Artfair held earlier this year and [...]
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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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New York fashion startup Stitch Collective released the latest in its line of leather accessories this week. Dubbed The City Bag, the $465 design by Parsons alum Omar Aguirre is a gray and green tote that’s enough to hold a laptop, yet streamlined and architectural enough to look polished, even when packed full with your [...]
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Watch out Burberry, Topshop may soon lay claim to the title of most tech-forward fashion brand (Go England, you digitally stylish country, you). Last fall, the company made headlines for adding all kinds of live, high-tech bells and whistles to its London Fashion Week show, and, this time, you can expect even more novelties. When [...]
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