6 posts and columns on Fashion Week

Style as Seen Through Rose-Colored iPhone App

in Media on September 14, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Instagram is stealing the show at Fashion Week. Amateur photographers use the free iPhone app to filter camera-phone pictures and make them look as if they’ve been processed using old-fashioned darkroom techniques.

EBay Unveils Crowd-Sourced Exclusive Fashion Collection

in Commerce on February 16, 2011 at 12:56 pm PT

For the first time, eBay is letting consumers dictate the contents of the next designer fashion collection that it will sell exclusively online.

Fashion Week Tips Hat to Blog Site

in News on February 9, 2011 at 4:25 pm PT

Landing a single ticket to a New York Fashion Week show is considered a feat for most. But Tumblr, a fast-growing New York-based blogging service, was able to snag 24 passes to each of more than a dozen shows, including big names like Carolina Herrera and Oscar de la Renta.

The Importance of Tweeting Oscar

in News on September 15, 2010 at 8:50 am PT

Sushi makes her crave chocolate. She spent a summer wielding power tools and drinking Rolling Rock beer. And more than 14,300 people follow her on Twitter. Erika Bearman is OscarPRGirl, Oscar de la Renta’s director of communications and the woman behind the august designer’s lively Twitter feed.

Teeny-Tiny Pixi Phone From Palm Tries Killing Giant Hype for Apple Event Today

in News on September 9, 2009 at 1:53 am PT

Oh, BoomTown fears this is not going to end well for the weensy little smart phone Palm is debuting today on–what an amazing coincidence!–the very same day Apple is throwing its big product bash in San Francisco, at which Mac fanboys fervently hope that Supreme Leader Steve Jobs might even appear. You don’t step on Superman of Silicon Valley’s cape, of course, but the device with the aggressively cute name of Pixi is apparently attempting just that. Thus, this fairytale might have a not-so-happy ending.
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Fashion Tweets Ruffles Feathers

in News on February 12, 2009 at 11:57 am PT

New York fashion week officially kicks off this Friday and Twittering fashionistas have already started sending out updates with #NYFW tags. Among the fashionable set, scoring a runway invitation imparts cachet because shows are invite-only and often, the invitations are nontransferable. On Monday, the New York Times’s blog The Moment told its 9,753 Twitter followers that it was offering up tickets to “Project Runway” winner Christian Siriano’s Feb. 19 show.