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Fashion Community Strutting User-Generated Trends Down the Catwalk

in Commerce on December 21, 2010 at 6:58 pm PT

The fashion industry may be able to better understand upcoming trends, thanks to a start-up called Polyvore, which is launching a tool that will hopefully turn its user-generated content into an actionable database of likes and preferences.

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.