Inside Fashion’s Instagram Wars. NEW YORK, United States — Throughout the year, Proenza Schouler designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez and their team use Instagram to communicate with more than 342,000 followers, posting images that represent the world of the brand.
But as fashion week kicks off, the Proenza boys, as they are known in the industry, are upping their game. For Spring 2016, the designers have partnered with reportage and portraiture photographer Landon Nordeman to capture and convey the brand’s take on the season with a total of five images posted over five days. “This project explores different elements of our design process: everything from more abstract inspiration and research, to sketching and sample making in our atelier,” Hernandez says. “It is a more intimate look,” McCollough continues. How 'smart fashion' could transform the mobile workforce. The future of wearables could be in 'smart clothes' that blend fashion with tech Picture this: A customer service representative is helping an irate customer on the phone and becoming flustered and frustrated.
Rather than hearing about the incident after the interaction has escalated, customer service managers are able to step in and offer assistance because they have access to the rep’s vital signs and health signals. Or, imagine one of your fleet drivers becoming tired and falling asleep at the wheel and a fleet manager having the ability to talk him through getting to a rest area safely, thanks to having access to his health signals. All of this, and more, is possible, thanks to wearable technology and smart clothes. Ralph Lauren Unveils PoloTech Smart Shirt. Instagram Now Used to Predict Fashion Models' Popularity. #FASHTAG: Fashion walks on new runway as it embraces modern technology. By Radhika Bhalla Published: 22:25 GMT, 3 September 2015 | Updated: 22:25 GMT, 3 September 2015.
Thread.com unites fashion and tech for $8m investment. Online personal styling service for men Thread.com has completed an $8m Series A funding round backed by big name investors spanning the fashion and technology industries.
Thread’s portfolio of investors include Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founders of Google-owned DeepMind, an artificial intelligence startup which the search giant acquired for over £400m in 2014. Other backers include Andrew Jennings, former president of Saks Fifth Avenue, Sebastian Picardo, chief retail officer at Lane Crawford, and Maurice Helfgott, former board director at M&S. Burberry turns to Snapchat before runway to debut London Fashion Week show. Burberry turns to Snapchat before runway to debut London Fashion Week show. Wearable technology for fashion-conscious.
With the volatile stock market news continuing to keep investors on edge, members of the sophisticated set are putting their money in handbags.
Literally. Along with their lipstick, handkerchiefs and cell phones. TV Review: Fashionable ‘Tool Time' meets tech couture in 'Project Runway' - The Post: Blogs. Fashion and technology merge to improve consumer experience. With the Internet revolutionising the way we shop, customers are increasingly avoiding dressing rooms, opting instead for the comfort of online shopping that usually offers liberal return policies.
In a bid to entice customers back, some shops have been testing various amenities including so-called intelligent dressing rooms that allow users to “try on” different items without having to actually change clothes. Going one step further, the recent Fashion Tech in Tel Aviv aimed at bringing together the worlds of fashion and technology to see how the two can work together. New York Fashion Week springs forward with drones and other haute tech. The drones at New York Fashion Week weren't exhausted fashion editors or undernourished models.
Hovering overhead, the miniature aircraft carried cameras to film the shows of designers such as Cynthia Rowley and Rebecca Minkoff. They're not the only way cutting-edge technology is interfacing with fashion. Here are five brands that are celebrating its capabilities on the spring-summer 2016 runways. Can Fashion and Technology Coexist Without Any Stunts? The worlds of fashion and technology are coming closer and closer together.
While technology companies have paid a lot of attention to industrial design in recent times, the use of technology in fashion, and fashion in technology, is still developing. Apple tied up with Hermes, a French luxury house for its latest Apple Watch and French luxury goods maker Dior was taking its admirers backstage with a virtual reality set, Dior Eyes. Apple's Sir Jonathan Ive made it to Vanity Fair's annual best dressed list and Ralph Lauren launched a biometric t-shirt stuffed with an accelerometer, gyroscope, and a heartbeat monitor. The Chromat-Intel Tech Sports Bra That Stops Boob Sweat.
Forbes Welcome. This London Fashion Week, We're Uniting the Realms of Fashion and Technology I cannot believe it is almost that time of the year again - London Fashion Week.
With just four days to go until the big night - Saturday 19 September, when friends, family and the media will gather to support my spring summer collection - the office is beyond crazy. Everything kind of builds to a grand crescendo as we frantically get every item of clothing finished to perfection, keeping everything and everyone involved in check. How Intel infiltrated New York Fashion Week. © Time Inc.
All rights reserved. Fortune.com is a part of the Time.com network of sites. Powered by WordPress.com VIP Email address or Password is incorrect. The Best Of Tech Coming Up At London Fashion Week - Forbes. London Fashion Week kicked off this morning, and while there might not be quite as much buzz around tech or digital ideas at the shows as there was in New York this season, there are still a handful of things worth knowing about. Here’s a highlight of the best: Burberry’s early Snapchat reveal The digital pioneer that is Burberry inevitably came out with something else that ticked that box ahead of its show on Monday. The British heritage brand will take to Snapchat to reveal its new collection to fans not just moments ahead of the audience in attendance as it has in the past, but an entire evening before.
Problem loading page. How "smart mirrors" are boosting clothing sales. Fitting rooms haven't exactly kept up with the times. Many are dingy, with bad lighting that makes almost anyone look worse for wear. But a new twist on the old fitting room basic is changing the way people shop for clothing, with upscale retailers finding so-called "smart mirrors" are actually boosting sales.
The mirrors take videos and photos of shoppers in new outfits, allowing the consumers to compare side-by-side images of which ensemble is most flattering. Neiman Marcus, for one, is testing smart mirrors from maker MemoMi in three locations: Walnut Creek, California; San Francisco and Willow Bend, outside of Dallas. The tech we were wearing before wearable tech. At first glance, the building blocks of our wardrobes have barely changed in the last hundred years – or have they?
The still-pervasive use of synthetic fabrics, cotton and animal skin may suggest we’re cut from the same cloth, but technology is being ingrained in the DNA of our clothing like never before. Technical fabrics – pervasive on the runway – provide the starting point for clothes that will eventually compute. Much like “selfie” and “GIF” before it, the term “wearables” is on the fast-track to becoming the zeitgeisty, OED-approved word of the year. 2014 has seen it take on new life at an alarming rate: Google Glass, the smart eyewear derided for looking like something a long-sighted android dreamt up, is proudly on sale at Net-a-Porter.
Meanwhile, the highly-anticipated Apple Watch had a launch during Paris Fashion Week, with model Liu Wen’s attendance sparking rumours that she could be the product’s new stylish face. Art & Science Journal — Technology meets Fashion meets Art: The Beautiful... Fashion meets the future as garments go hi-tech. London fashion week: why technology is in fashion. At London fashion week the multibillion dollar worlds of tech and fashion are colliding like never before. For many, the launch of Apple’s new watch, announced this week with impeccable timing to coincide with the global fashion weeks, will mark an important turning point for fashion tech, a new sector with huge potential for growth.
How technology has changed student life. Going back to my family dinner, and chatting about university life, it didn't take too long for the phrase "you kids have it so much easier these days" to feature.