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BBC launches a blog about blogs.
Blogworld highlights the (supposedly) best international blogs for a special BBC season about the power of the internet.
03/07/10
Nowfashion
By Melanie Crete on 03/07/10,
Another day in sunny (fashion) Paris and another new digital concept discovery: Nowfashion. The first online magazine to presents fashion shows in real time. Still a few bugs but great potential.
03/03/10
Today I'm wearing...
By Melanie Crete on 03/03/10,
Model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley takes over from Alexa Chung this month on Vogue.co.uk, sending in a pitcure every day to show what she is wearing.
02/19/10
London Fashion Week goes live
By Melanie Crete on 02/19/10,
Yes it is this time of the year again, LONDON FASHION WEEK. This season the British Fashion Council goes 100% digital with the launch of Live From Fashion Week, a live stream series from London Fashion Week A/W 2010 featuring runway shows, style commentary, celebrity guests and interviews. Far behind the time when you had to patiently wait for the runaway pictures to be uploaded on style.com the following day!
02/14/10
Pop vs Love
By Melanie Crete on 02/14/10,
- Condé Nast's title produced eight different covers for its 'fashion icons' issue, featuring naked cover stars including Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Lara Stone. All shot by Mert & Marcus, art directed once again by Suburbia. On the website front, the team has kept is pretty minimal; black background and a simple player to The LOVE Thing, a movie directed by LOVE editor Katie Grand and James Lima (see below). More LOVE on the magazine's blog.
- One girl, two covers for Pop. Model is Abbey Lee Kershaw, shot by Richard Prince. Website wise, editor Dasha Zhukova launched Pop’s digital format as thepop.com last September. Providing an integrated platform for the Pop team and its partners, the website provides pretty good content. So many blogs on there, hours of browsing.
02/13/10
Dear lover,...
By Melanie Crete on 02/13/10,
Struggling to find the right words? Well, here you go, poetry a la carte does it for you... Custom made poetry for £150. Say it with verse.
02/09/10
Do you want to be a Roitfeld?
By Melanie Crete on 02/09/10,
Some people do. Here is the proof.
02/01/10
Fact
By Melanie Crete on 02/01/10,
The New York Times Company announced last week that it was to implement metered paid content model in 2011 after a long period of deliberation.
01/20/10
From page to screen
By Melanie Crete on 01/20/10,
Launched by Phaidon Books in 2006, Wallpaper* City Guides is now going to screen with a the launch of new application for iphone.
The guides not only include basic info... There are actually a few cool stuff such as an insiders’ guide compiled by an actual resident and a panoramic photo of the city skyline with architectural highlights labeled and explained. Even better, the app also detects where you are in relation to every place in the guide and offers a link to Google maps for directions. Pretty smart.
The Berlin app is currently available as a free download on the iTunes store. Go and get it!
01/17/10
The REAL real people
By Melanie Crete on 01/17/10,
Forget about those glamourous and super stylish people you see on The Sartorialist. Yes those ones who look hot on a sunday trip to their local fleamarket, whatever they wear. Time to get back to (a certain form of) reality...
People of Walmart was founded in August of 2009 by three friends 'after an inspirational trip to Walmart', the giant US supermarket. Surely what you see on the website is inspirational...
That reality aint for me. Time for Fashion Week guys!
12/11/09
The Mobile Diary
By Melanie Crete on 12/11/09,
Since everyone - including my mum - has a mobile phone equipped with a camera now, it is no big surprise that the trends focused blog Trendlab launched a platform entirely dedicated to those random camera phone snaps. The Mobile Diary is a blog on which you can share your (best) snaps 'whether you are walking down the street, at a party, in a museum, shopping or anywhere else'... Is there really a point? Mmm probably not but don't we all love a bit of randomness sometimes.
12/06/09
Live Studio - Gaga ohlala
By Melanie Crete on 12/06/09,
Live Studio is an initiative from London based fashion website SHOWStudio. Allowing the public a unique insight into the workings of the photographic studio, this Live Studio space is used each week by world-renowned fashion image-makers to shoot fashion editorial, portraits and film. The audience observe unseen from the exhibition space, while the action is also simultaneously broadcast live on SHOWstudio and commented on Twitter.
Between 1-20 December 2009, Knight will photograph 100 of 'London's Beau Monde'—including models, actors, musicians, and artists... The portraits from each session will be displayed in a gallery adjacent to the Live Studio and in i-D magazine's 30th anniversary issue. And today is a big day as Nick Night is photographing the one and only Lady Gaga before she goes on TV program X-Factor.
Watch the shoot on Live Studio from 1.30 GMT today and follow the whole production on Twitter.
Photos: Courtesy of SHOWStudio.
12/04/09
My Mom, the Style Icon
By Melanie Crete on 12/04/09,
Fact: your mum is the most stylish person in the entire world. So why don't you drag out of the family photo album those good old pictures of her at her best and share it online?
My Mom the Style Icon compiles pictures of the most stylish mommies ever. Hours of joy.
10/23/09
When the Teenagers do not make sleazy pop
By Melanie Crete on 10/23/09,
They blog. Go and check here.
10/14/09
ByeBye Men.Style.Com
By Melanie Crete on 10/14/09,
Men.Style.com - the online home
of Details & GQ - is gone. GQ.com and Details.com now masters their own
domains. This move is the direct result of Conde Nast Digital's ongoing
strategy: developing individual
brands to put the emphasis back on a site's direct lineage to its print
version.
GQ.com has just been launched and what's left of Men.Style.com has been merged into the new GQ.com site. Hard to see the changes, the first phase of GQ.com seems to only be a soft rebranding of Men.Style. The new Details.com is coming out next week, let's see how it looks...
10/09/09
Dating 2.0
By Melanie Crete on 10/09/09,
No doubt 2009 is being the year of the blog taking over the fashion world. More than ever fashion bloggers are in the limelight - Tavi Gevinson aka StyleRookie, 13 years old, graced the front cover of both POP and Love Magazine and recently posed next to American Vogue's Creative Director Grace Coddington at NYC Fashion Week. In the meantime bringing up to life a blog seems like a 'no choice' for labels (ie CHANEL), retailers (ie Matches, Asos) and magazines (ie Vogue). But what if a blog was just not enough to keep up with those fashion customers/readers?
New era is coming now with the launch of TRULYMADLYDATING.COM - Conde Nast International's first dating site supported by GLAMOUR.COM and GQ.COM. It says the website is 'created to unite glamorous girls with fashion-conscious GQ-reading boys to create matches made in style heaven'. Mmmm what a program... Search my match, search my fans, see who recently viewed me, ... you get the whole idea. Conde Nast is obviously hoping to increase its 'fanbase' and find an alternative to advertising to get money in. To celebrate the launch of TRULYMADLYDATING.COM Conde Nast offers a 7 day free trial.
I have 7 days to find out if 'MojitoMan' is the one then. Not convinced. At all.
09/21/09
GAGADAILY-CIOUS!
By Melanie Crete on 09/21/09,
A fan website that becomes more interesting than the official celeb's website? That is a common thing. Simply because passionate fans would spend hours following their idol and would give us information written with their heart. Not trying to sell anything basically, just sharing their passion.
So when Patricia blogs for GagaDaily she gives us a very detailed outlook of what the singer wears. I am not talking here about junk you usually get from gossip and tacky titles. The blog is very well documented - with pictures, interviews of stylists and designers - Patricia obviously does loads of researches. Not that I care so much about Lady Gaga and her wacky style - or pretending not too - this blog certainly does the job.
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