Tag: fashion

  • Bringing Down the Houses

    If ever there were a precarious moment when the foundations of the great houses of fashion should tremble this is it.  Labels rely on three elements when crafting fashion, and one is about to become obsolete.  Aesthetic, innovation, and scarcity rule the industry.  Designers are skilled artists working within the medium of silhouette and texture. …

  • FASHION – How It Shapes Who We Are

    Review of Fashion Philosophy for Everyone Have you ever tried to discover the hidden meaning in the way you dress?  How about in the way others dress? Coco Chanel once said, ‘If a woman is badly dressed, it’s the dress we’ll notice; but if she is impeccably dressed, it’s the woman herself we’ll notice.’

  • When does Illuminated Clothing Become Fashion?

    I ran the Firefly Run, a nighttime 5k where people dress up in illuminated clothes to run the race.  Some people (like me) simply wore glow-in-the dark accessories, but others went all out in full LED costume!

  • FREEDOM TO CHOOSE

    Mantyhose?  Guylons?  He-tards? Sound ridiculous yet familiar?

  • The Oscars – the world’s largest catwalk for the fashion industry and 2nd most talked about event on TV by social media

    You may have thought everyone was there to celebrate films over the last year, but in all honesty – the stories that people will be buzzing about for days after is what everyone was wearing and who made which list – the best dressed or the worst dressed.

  • Exciting Developments in Techno Fashion

    Technology and fashion are evoloving and intersecting in multiple fascinating and unexpected ways. From clothing that moves to garments that offer healing properties for the skin, techno fashion applications are literally turning the contemporary fashion aesthetic on it’s well dressed head.  Below I have compiled a few examples of recent developments in the techno fashion…

  • H&M’s Emerging Media Blunder: Computer Generated Models

    Retailer H&M has received some decidedly negative scrutiny recently for using computer generated models on their website. As reported on mashable.com the retailer came under fire for superimposing real models heads onto computer generated bodies to showcase a range of collections on it’s retail site. To the unsuspecting viewer nothing is amiss, however if one looks closely…

  • Move Over Vogue. There’s a New Sheriff in Town.

    The following article details the recent and remarkable rise in the status of fashion bloggers from dismissed outsiders, to contemporary arbiters of style. Author Alisa Gould-Simon explores the current fashion media landscape and examines how fashion bloggers have upset the traditional fashion media paradigm.

  • Yes, Women Can Be Boxers…As Long as They Wear Mini-Skirts

    The following article details recent developments in the world of women’s boxing. The sport has recently scored a major coup in that Women’s Boxing will be featured for the first time in the 2012 Summer Olympics. This milestone is significantly diminished, however, in that if the Amateur International Boxing Association has it’s way these fearless Olympians…

  • Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism

    Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. First off let me state that this is not a fashion book. Nor is it a beauty book. Nor, and you may find this surprising, is it a feminist manifesto. Still interested? Good. As the title suggests the author, Linda M. Scott, offers a fresh perspective…