Marc Jacobs Wearable Technology

Marc Jacobs was recently asked by style.com an interesting futuristic question. For style.come’s fashion technology week they asked Katie Hillier from Marc Jacobs that if there were no limitations for fashion technology, what would she come up with to bring to reality. They wanted her to think about bringing her fashion fantasy to reality by drawing up a picture of what she would create. She thought of a MBMJ smart watch phone. It would be a small piece of jewelry that would be a pink triangle bangle bracelet or a small pink triangle earring. This small piece of jewelry would be able to do many technological things. The bangle would be used as a remote control device, as well as heart rate monitor, and finger print sensor. Then the matching earrings would be used as small ear buds for music that would play wireless and to make phone calls. These small devices would be available for both men and women. This is Marc Jacobs future of wearable technology.

http://www.style.com/trends/industry/2014/tech-fashion-sketches-marc-by-marc-jacobs-iris-van-herpen

Gaps Visoniare Collaboration of Art Work

Gap is launching its final limited collection with Visioniare. Gap is celebrating their 45th anniversary with showcasing their final collection of Visioniare t-shirts and sweatshirts. On October 15th through the 18th at the Frieze fair in London, Gap will be showing their 15 T-shirts and sweatshirt designs that they have created. Each shirt is a screen printed artwork from past issues of Visionaire. They will debut these garment pieces with  a small select group of guests behind closed doors at the fair. This is going to be Gaps 4th and final collaboration of the collection of Visionaire garments.

http://fashionweekdaily.com/gap-to-launch-its-final-limited-edition-collab-with-visionaire/

Urban Outfitter’s New and Improved Anthropologie!

My company Urban Outfitter’s Anthropologie chain plans to super size their stores in the next five years. They want to not only attract customers with their Bohemian chic house wear and apparel but also with a selection of several other goods. They want to open around 25-50 more new stores. They want to possible have an area where consumers can grab a nice delicious lunch while shopping. There goal is to double their sales by 2020. They are striving to become a broader lifestyle brand and they want to increase their home goods, wedding, beauty, apparel, and furnishings. They are aiming for customers to stay in the store for an average of 2-3 hours rather than just an hour. They believe that bigger is better an that is what the consumers what. Hopefully this is exactly what Anthropologie needs to help increase sales and consumers.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-26/urban-outfitters-to-supersize-anthropologie-stores.html

Urban Outfitter’s New and Improved Anthropologie!

My company Urban Outfitter’s Anthropologie chain plans to super size their stores in the next five years. They want to not only attract customers with their Bohemian chic house wear and apparel but also with a selection of several other goods. They want to open around 25-50 more new stores. They want to possible have an area where consumers can grab a nice delicious lunch while shopping. There goal is to double their sales by 2020. They are striving to become a broader lifestyle brand and they want to increase their home goods, wedding, beauty, apparel, and furnishings. They are aiming for customers to stay in the store for an average of 2-3 hours rather than just an hour. They believe that bigger is better an that is what the consumers what. Hopefully this is exactly what Anthropologie needs to help increase sales and consumers.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-09-26/urban-outfitters-to-supersize-anthropologie-stores.html

Tuck it in: New Fall 2014 hair trend

This is an article about a trend that was in this falls 2014 fashion weeks. It ties in with what we are talking about in class as well because it has to do with the “now”.  It’s the current fall 2014 hair trend that is all over the fashion runways.  Although this trend is from the last spring runways, it is being carried over into the fall/winter trend as well. The trend is wearing something warm such as thick sweater knits, chunky scarf knits, or turtle necks during this fall/winter while having your hair actually tucked into either your sweater, jacket, or scarf.  This can be an easy way to effortlessly put your hair back and out of your way while still looking very polished, sophisticated, and put together.  This hair trend is also very convenient for experimenting with short hair lengths because it gives you the “short hair” feel without having to actually cut your hair.  The hair style also makes your hair seem a bit fuller and thicker when tucked in.

It is best to choose to part your hair with a deep side part when doing this look and try and create as much volume as possible before tucking in your hair. This hair look can also easily be paired with accessories such as chokers, fur collars, bold earrings, and smokey eyed makeup.

http://www.fashionising.com/trends/b–tucked-in-hair-68463.html#utm_source=fs&utm_medium=refer&utm_content=68463&utm_campaign=slide