DALLAS, Aug 19, 2008 / FW/ — With invitations and previews for the New York Spring 2009 season coming in fast and furious, it is easy to lose track on what’s going on with the other segments of fashion.
An interesting development is that mainstream retailers like Kohl’s, Sears, even K-Swiss are starting to ‘sell virtually’ [...]
NEW YORK, Jan 21, 2008 / FW/ — While the fashion world is busy with menswear and haute couture, Second Life designers are busy creating virtual clothing that can change color and texture on the fly.
And as Jeffrey Bardzell, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Design at Indiana University commented in his blog ‘Wearable [...]
MILAN, Jan 15, 2008 / FW/ — Dirk Bikkembergs, inventor of sports couture; he made sports wear luxury. Before him, we used to think of sports wear in terms of sweaty gym pants unfit to be worn outside. Dirk Bikkembergs changed all that, when he reworked jogging suits to be cargo pants and shiny blousons.
For [...]
(Part 2 - Second Life Fashion Series)
LOS ANGELES, Jan 7, 2008 / FW/ — Men’s fashion in Second Life is an industry that historically has developed at a much slower pace than womenswear. However in recent months there has been an increasing interest in men’s fashion, which has triggered innovations in the method in which [...]
NEW YORK, Jan 3, 2008 / FW/ — ‘Write an article about Second Life,’ was the only message in a very short email from my Editor-in-Chief. I have to confess, I have not heard of Second Life (SL for short, now that I know a little more about it), until I was given the assignment.
Not [...]
LOS ANGELES, Jan 2, 2007 / FW/ — With our sister site Fashion Reporters coverage of Second Life, emails came in from non-SL residents wanting to know the ‘basics’ of this virtual world. By popular demand, here’s a short introduction:
Second Life is a free to use virtual 3D platform where the player is given a [...]
DALLAS, Dec 27, 2008 / FW/ — There was a time when ‘virtual world’ just means the internet. But, those days are gone and today, ‘virtual world’ refers to an array of online services that offer users the ability to create their own environment including 3-D characters called avatars.
Perhaps, the most well known among them [...]
