Cyber Fashion

Siggraph, the annual computer graphics show often held in LA has a fashion area with lots of cool stuff. Check it out at: http://psymbiote.org/cyfash/2005/

Fashion.net

Check out fashionnet (http://www.fashion.net/) for info about sites, vocabulary, etc. There are sections for magazines, designers, labels and blogs.

Extreme Textiles

There was a show at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in NYC called Extreme Textiles. You can get a cool flash tour by clicking on this link http://cooperhewitt.org/extexsitelet/. The show had a combination of stronger, faster, lighter, smarter and safer materials with application examples. It's definitely worth checking out. The materials are exotic, beautiful and cool.

Space Suit from Extreme Textiles Show

Current Issue of ID Magazine

This is the current issue of ID magazine. I has some interesting fashion stuff in a story about young designers. It's related to the MIT Media Lab program on wearable computing. The dress in the photo is an inflatable dress designed by a Media Lab grad. The article discusses a lot of the concepts we were talking about last night.

JC Report Trends Email

I found this fashion trend email list that you can sign up for at http://www.jcreport.com/ (it's also part of the Flavorpill package that has music and events email lists). I'm not sure how valuable it is yet and you guys that work in the industry may have better ones but it may be a useful resource. It's free.

Fashion Cell

The next meeting will be at the Fishbon Studio 46 Helena, Santa Barbara at 6pm on Wednesday, November 16. We talked about meeting on Wednesdays before the Event Lab. This blog can serve as a link to designers in LA and San Francisco who won't be able to come to meetings. It's really a casual spot to post thoughts, links to sites, articles, media files, etc. that people may find interesting as well as a forum for ongoing discussions about the September show in Santa Barbara and shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles. I've been posting to the Fishbon Event Lab blog for a while now and will send everyone instructions on how to post, upload photos, etc. You can even use Blogger to create your own blog if you haven't already got one.