I’ve never been to a forecasting seminar aside from Promostyl, so it’ll be cool to see what other forecasting companies are coming up with. If you’re from Vancouver and are a design student, check this out:
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Spring 2010 Trend Forecasting Seminar
September 10, 2009Clean-up and talk of TED in Vancouver
August 29, 2009Hi all! Thanks for visiting my blog! Did’ya notice? I did a bit of cleaning up, re-naming the mess known as my categories. About time. I’m starting to take this thing known as blogging a little more seriously. I had lofty goals when I started. I wanted to change the fashion world with my blog, one post at a time. No, really, haha. That’s everyone’s dream when they start blogging, eh?
I wanted a way to take everything I was learning and observing of the world and the changes it is going through (and wow, are there changes…) and connect it with fashion so that when I start out in the real world, what I do is reflective of what I believe. I was already selfish enough to choose a career path that I fell in love with, so the rest of my life is an opportunity for me to be a little more selfless, in using what I have to do something for the world through fashion beyond creating excess waste. I am attracted to the idea of being a contrarian. I think fashion needs more contrarians; I think that we especially need contrarians with ideas worth spreading, not just contrarians with the cool factor and exuberant personalities. Speaking of ideas worth spreading, I heard that TED is coming to Vancouver this fall. Ted is not my boyfriend’s name. TED, if you don’t already know, is this. Really, truly. If that’s the case, I would love to go. I think they’re opening a call for speakers.
TedxVancouver: Click
Superheroes Curatorial Talk
December 22, 2008I grew up on Barbies and Marvel. Sure, Barbie was pretty, but superheroes are so much cooler, and they represent two sides of the same coin – the social and political context of our times. The further I get into fashion, the more I see how fantasy interlinks with reality and culture, and that is all made possible with imagination. I’d love to study superhero costumes and make one myself one day. I will put it in a special room in my secret underground lair, which by the way, will be pretty, and nice, and warm, nothing like the batcave. (Hey, a girl can dream.)
A while ago, I found out about the Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy exhibit at the MET. If only. It ran through to September 1, 2008, so I missed it. Not like I was heading out to New York anyway, though. The website is pretty interesting though.
I did find these videos on Youtube.
Hmm…phallic symbolism, the Hulk as a metaphor for male potency. Here I am, listening to this sipping my hot chocolate, typing as I go. Love the holidays.