Comments on: fashion/media – double kiss

By: Rea

Rea — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:59:48 +0000

Ah, great for you to bring up the Cathy Horyn piece. I remember talking with some ppl during the shows, and I liked how her seating point manifested differently in the Toronto shows.

Sure, we all have assigned seats and the front row was def reflective of the analogy she makes for seating representing fashion biz hierarchy, but for the most part so many of us ignored that because we don’t have a clear-cut hierarchy and you know, the show runners never ever knew where your seat was anyway.

Which offers a telling crossroad for the industry – maybe we don’t take ourselves that seriously enough, which I find refreshing and an example of the democracy that can exist in our loose fashion community. I like how we don’t have our stern Anna Wintour authoritative figure, but you know, an out-there character that goes out on stage with her dress half-zipped.

While I understand the need for us to have formalism and follow the conventions of typixal white tent fashion weeks, it’d be interesting if we encouraged more off-site action with the shows/parties. (Of course, this might just be me wanting to see a revival of Studio 54-esque shows with girls dancing in Charles Jourdan heels or spinning around in Issey Miyake-F.I.T.-ed circles.)

And the blogging thing – well, it’s a bit of a misunderstood catch up from the old guard, isn’t it? Shame they can’t seem to be creative about it.

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:56:22 +0000

http://ragsandmags.com – love your new project, your illustrations are amazing!

By: Almost Girl » Blog Archive » The Attention Economy

Almost Girl » Blog Archive » The Attention Economy — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:10:00 +0000

[...] It is interesting to be an old timer because sometimes insights that you swore would take off years ago eventually do get their time in the sun. The ever observant and informed Danielle at Final Fashion asks the tough question about just how much fashion information can be produced and consumed. [...]

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:07:41 +0000

Thank you for remaining a voice of reason in all of this mayhem. I am certainly experiencing information saturation. Its funny as the culture of “more, more, more” information takes over fashion we become less inclined to consume it. And yet people keep spewing out more content as opposed to stopping, studying and deciding what is worth saying. I remember Phil and I discussing the attention economy even two years ago and yet it has taken until now for people to realize that we don’t have unlimited time and those that succeed will do so because people will eventually limit their consumption to what is worthwhile.

Perhaps its the CPM model of advertising that is doing it to all of us, everyone is focused on getting more traffic as opposed to getting better traffic.

I for one couldn’t be prouder to see the interesting new takes on new media that you are producing. Its nice to know that even us old guard still have a few new tricks huh?