Month: May 2020

Fashion is having its moment in the metaverse. A riot of luxury labels, music, and games are vying for attention in the virtual world. And as physical events and the entertainment industry that depends on them shuts down, virtual things have come to epitomize the popular culture of the pandemic. It’s creating an environment where…

Illustration: GoogleGoogle announced a number of new features, tweaks, and additions to Chrome yesterday. In typical Google fashion, some are available for you to play with right now and some you’ll have to wait on. We’ve done the grunt work, and put together a comprehensive guide to unlocking every feature Google talked about yesterday (and…

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. A cluster of related companies recently caught our eye by raising capital in rapid-fire fashion. TechCrunch covered a few of them, and I read coverage of others. Looking back through my notes and the media…

Answering Your Coronavirus Questions: Fashion, Education And Health Disparities People are seen practicing social distancing in white circles last weekend in Brooklyn’s Domino Park. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images People are seen practicing social distancing in white circles last weekend in Brooklyn’s Domino Park. Johannes Eisele/AFP…

Photo: Courtesy of Kim Cam JonesAs much as I appreciate films, podcasts, articles and social media feeds, none of them have changed my life as consistently or dramatically as books have. There is a depth of research and singularity of focus possible between the covers of a book that is hard to attain in a Twitter…

Sometimes the best way to learn is to find something you really like and try to copy it exactly. Sure, it won’t be an original creation, but in understanding how the bones were assembled to construct this thing you love, you’ll likely learn valuable insight into why those decisions were made. Armed with that knowledge,…

Lisa Aiken at London Fashion Week spring/summer 2020.Photo: Courtesy of Sandra SemburgThere’s been a lot of discussion around what future fashion weeks are going to look like, with all the logistical challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic — but what about the trade side of things?Buyers for department stores, designer boutiques and the like travel throughout…

Blanca Miró in a Helmstedt dress and carrying a Hereu bag.Photo: Courtesy of Blanca MiróFor Blanca Miró, jet-setting around the world is a job requirement. The Spanish influencer, stylist and entrepreneur regularly travels in search of inspiration, not just for her personal style, but also for her growing fashion and tech ventures. But, with the Covid-19…

Facebook today announced that it has acquired the popular GIF sharing platform GIPHY, and it will be joining the Instagram team. Instagram has supported GIPHY search in Stories for years now, but Facebook said it will “further integrate” the platform’s GIF library into Instagram and other Facebook apps. The sum of the GIPHY acquisition by…

A community project in Venezuela and an adult playground are among the experiential concepts envisioned by seven students from New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in this Virtual Design Festival schools exhibition of graduate work.The projects represent the students’ final thesis work from the MA Exhibition and Experience Design course at FIT, which is…