September 2010
15 posts
Food for thought...
Carine Roitfeld on French Vogue’s 90th and opening a karaoke.
Suzy Menkes considers whether or not the fashion film will replace the runway.
Gareth Pugh premieres his SS11 collection on ShowStudio in film form and offers one piece from the line for purchase immediately.
Meanwhile, J. Crew joins the film game with a short starring The Rassle.
Excerpts of an interview with Olivier...
Friday Link Service
Portfolio on what sets British online retailer Asos apart and why the e-shop won’t open warehouses in the US.
What Twitter’s redesign means for luxury brands at Luxury Daily.
And, of course, Prada’s awe-inspiring SS11 collection. It’s bananas.
More required reading...
Sara Mower on ‘The New Fashion Forward.’ Love what she has to say about the ever-evolving (and highly problematic) current seasonal model.
The Business of Fashion on the ways in which trying before you buying is finding its way to the e-commerce sphere.
Google’s retail blog on the divide between the number of retailers with a mobile presence and consumers’ increasing use...
Essential reading from the New Yorker on Tavi Gevinson and Pop’s Dasha Zhukova.
Come to this... →
To find out more about the super fantastic 5 brands that I’m including you’ll have to show up and see for yourself.
Actually, it’s a subject with no clear conclusions. I could tell from my conversations with fashion house executives, like Shirley Cook of Proenza Schouler, that online shopping and information is forcing designers to be better designers — sharper and more competitive. But the landscape presents weird paradoxes. Candace Corlett, a partner at WSL Strategic Retail in New York, made me laugh...
More fashion bloggers are looking to get paid for product coverage, says Fashionista in light of conversations at the recent BlogHer conference. Meanwhile, PSFK has an interesting piece on CMP.ly, which “aims to provide bloggers and advertisers with a set of easily identifiable disclosures and codes that can be used to identify any material connections in blog posts, tweets or other...
A must-read on the overexposure of luxury brands via portholes like Gilt Groupe as well as the growing appetite for ‘the next big thing’ at the Huffington Post here.
