Fashion has become very fashionable and there’s something comforting and fun about working in a virtual world especially if your only 10 years old. I think I would have liked games like this when I was little. Fashion games for girls is a huge market so it’s just not surprising that Koei have created a game around Japanese Street fashion. Japanese Street fashion has been so influential - Photographer Shoichi Aoki’s books Fruits & Fresh Fruits are so popular that Aoki’s been credited with introducing Japanese street fashion to the rest of world!
In the world of Pop Cutie players will start the game as an independent designer with a small shop at a flea market - like so many real young designers. As players progress, they’ll move into larger boutiques. The competition against rival shop owners culminates in a ‘Fashion Battle,’ where a panel of judges will decide if a player’s style has enough cute or enough cool to become all the rage.
The game involves running the boutique, hiring staff and models, and decorating their shops. It also involves fashion design based on capturing and combining “images” from kids on the street. Two-player “Fashion Battles” are also possible with a friend who has a copy of Pop Cutie.
I like the concept of the game I’m just not sure if the characters are cool or fashionable enough - when someone says Japanese Street Fashion the expectations are high. Anyway when I was little, like so many other Canadians, summer holidays involved a long, long road trip - I would have loved to have a super cool fashion game to pass the time!
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It’s quite flattering when you see your work on designer’s site! Beatrix Ong is a lovely shoe designer. She studied at Central St. Martins, The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and Cordwainers College in London. If you think that’s impressive, she then went on to design for Jimmy Choo and has now been designing her own collection for almost 8 years. Sometimes you might think that a shoes is just a shoe - but a beautiful shoe is never just a shoe! We never really think about all the development and research that goes into shoe making. Recently it’s become a revived art form. There’s even a shoe museum in Toronto. So next time you try on a shoe think about art, fashion and function, and just how pretty they look on your feet!
The tone of Target’s model-less “fashion show” was actually a lot more like a 3-D commercial than a fashion show. I know my expectations were high, but I wanted to see something more, something greater.
Racked, a blog about New York City shopping, is reporting that Topshop has secured a location for a store in Soho, near Bloomingdale’s.
Google Maps has street level city images for San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Miami, and Denver, with more to come apparently. It’s amazing technology, although it’s a little strange being able to take a look anywhere in the city you like. Here’s a Street View of the location using Google Maps (click to view).
I love fashion and technology. Using holograms in fashion shows is a unique and a very new concept. Right now, it just feels very hip and cool and that alone is a valid part of fashion. I’m looking forward to seeing a true fusion of the hologram and a fashion show, but integrating the technology with fashion has yet to be fully realized. So I’m quite excited about Target’s next fashion show! The catwalk fashion show will have no models. Instead, it will have holograms of clothes and accessories on a runway. The holograms will be projected in a section of Grand Central Station on November 6 and 7, repeated every 10 minutes from noon to midnight the first day and from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. the second day. It’s reported that more than a million people in NYC will view the show. I’ll post the video as soon as it’s available.
Diesel’s holographic fashion show featuring their SS’08 Preview Collection in Florence, Italy in June 2007:
The famous Kate Moss hologram from the Alexander McQueen AW06 show in Paris, March 2006:
