Author: pickup
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Flash Fashion
As more business ventures establish themselves in cyberspace, a proliferation of online fashion clearing houses are gaining momentum in world of e-commerce. Traditional retail websites like eBay and Amazon exist as places for come-one, come-all retailing and reselling. These new ‘Flash Fashion’ sites are more geared toward the design conscious consumer who wants quality goods…
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3D Printers Make Haute Couture
I have been super fascinated by 3D printers lately. 3D printers are an additive manufacturing process that, through the use of digital prototyping, print layers of material to create 3D objects using heat applied to a material such as metal or liquid polymer. While 3D printers are typically used in engineering and more technical industries, it is…
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Questioning Veracity with New Retouching Detection Tool
Eric Kee and Hany Farid of Dartmouth College have developed ‘A Perceptual Metric for Photo Retouching‘. Meant to detect and rate the amount a photo has been altered on a five point scale, this tool has some very interesting implications towards the future use of manipulated images within the fashion industry. Although photographs and images have…
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Burberry Bespoke – DIY Trenches
With the debut of the new Burberry Bespoke site, it seems the international brand Burberry is taking a queue from fashion designer Pia Myrvold. One of our resources for the semester, Techno Fashion by Bradley Quinn, discusses the designer and the challenges she faces as the fashion Press finds difficulty accepting the admittedly original clothing. In…
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Fashioning Mobile Technology
As we talk about the intersection of new media with fashion, we tend to focus on platforms supported by a full web browser; however, as mobile technologies become more widely used, we will need to expand our scope. “The “Shopping” Mindset of the Mobile Consumer”, published March 2011, find that mobile phones and tablets are…
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Light Up Lingerie
On November 29th, Victoria’s Secret aired their 2011 fashion show featuring performances by Kanye, Jay-Z, Maroon 5 and my favorite Nicki Minaj. I love Nicki Minaj for her ideas around identity and her always interesting fashion choices but what caught my eye was the technology integrated in to the looks presented during her set.
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Fashioning Tech Workshop
After an exciting trip to the Golden Do’r in Dallas, our editors met up with a collection of materials in hand and had the first Fashioning Technology Workshop. The day was spent sewing and soldering but more to come as the projects develop – including: Purses that light up upon receiving a cell phone call…
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Can ANTM Go Viral?
There is a current episode of America’s Next Top Model, Game, where Tyra and Jay ask the models to create and record a short song, then shoot a video with their directors with the intent of creating a viral YouTube video. They open with a challenge from Madison, a current viral video child star with some…
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Techno Fashion // Bradley Quinn
As fashion designers begin using technology to inspire and shape their work, we can see the important impact cyber culture has on our bodies, fashion and the built environment within which we function. Bradley Quinn’s Techno Fashion explores a number of fashion designers whose work is impacted by technology both conceptually and aesthetically. It is…