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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Girls, you can applaud the collapse of a sartorial gender barrier today. San Francisco-based apparel startup American Giant has (finally!) launched a collection for women. It’s welcome news that the ladies can now partake in tees, tanks and hoodies from the direct-to-consumer e-commerce label hailed as the source for “the greatest hoodie ever made” by Slate, [...]
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A few recent developments to remember from the intersection of fashion and technology… Fashion tech is the focus for one of the new Thiel Fellows (you know, that controversial program that awards a group of lucky kid $100,000 to skip college and innovate). via The Cut This competition seeks to award up to to £25,000 [...]
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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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Small technological triumph that it may be, it’s welcome news that Finnish fashion label Ivana Helsinki has launched its online shop. Previously only available in very special places such as San Francisco’s Eden & Eden, the inventive line by designer Paola Ivana Suhonen is now available online and, through the end of May, at a [...]
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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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