News to peruse from a digitally stylish universe… New York’s fashion hackathon garnered much buzz. Next up? Possibly London come fall, says Decoded’s Liz B. via Entrepreneur In this story about the popularity of Apple products at London Fashion Week shows is a stat I noted: Topshop claims to have the most popular retail mobile [...]
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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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Fashion and technology joined forces in more ways than one during Portland’s recent FASHIONxt runway event. For the fashion showcase held earlier this month, Project Runway alums Seth Aaron and Viktor Luna teamed up to create their Personal Cloud Collection featuring conceptual designs inspired by event sponsor Intel’s NAS (a.k.a. network-attached storage) devices. Created [...]
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While 3D printed fashion still has a long, long way to go before it becomes fodder for mainstream closets, there are signs that style is sneaking into the additive manufacturing realm slowly, but surely. An example comes in the form of the Cell Cycle Cuffs by Massachusetts-based Nervous System, a company helmed by MIT alums [...]
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Earlier this month at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week, French designer and Thierry Mugler alum Franck Sorbier took a high-tech approach to his A/W 2012-2013 runway show by bypassing the runway altogether. In collaboration with Intel, the designer presented just two hand-sewn gowns, but ultimately showed a total of 14 pieces with the help of [...]
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Spend any amount of time rattling around the Bay Area fashion and technology scene, and you’re bound to run into Tracy Sun. The Poshmark co-founder and current VP of marketing has spent the better part of the past year building her company’s person-to-person style marketplace into the go-to iPhone app for fashion fans to buy [...]
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