By Nadine Kam
Hey Gucci fans, Ala Moana Center has joined the Web 2.0 universe and is now on Twitter. They posted this special offer this morning, good through Monday:
“Visit Gucci for a Hawaii exclusive charm with purchase now through 8/18/08. While supplies last, call 942-1148.”
You can continue following them for special offers at http://twitter.com/AlaMoanaCenter
You can follow me at http://twitter.com/fashiontribe
By Nadine Kam
Nadine Kam videoHere’s the video for the Aloha!Alice story in the paper. It’s great how the Internet allows anyone with a creative streak to connect with a niche market.
Maybe I’ll start a photo shop at Etsy.com. A friend told me that any business started on 8/8/08 can’t fail!
By Nadine Kam
I enjoy Fashion Indie’s “Before They Had Stylists” feature, like these pictures of Kanye. Need I say which is the before and after? THAT’S entertainment!
You can go to http://fashionindie.com/category/style/before-they-had-stylists/
Sorry I couldn’t light it up for you, the Wordpress link function isn’t working right now.
By Nadine Kam
Nadine Kam photo
Guy Kawasaki on camera during Saturday’s Tweetup. He says that when he’s a billionaire he’ll throw a proper party by renting a room and springing for pupu and drinks.
Headed for Hawaii Prince Hotel Saturday for an impromptu “Twitter-fueled meetup with local geeks and ubergeek Guy Kawasaki,” as the gathering was billed.
The guerilla meetup came together poolside, in about 24 hours, just to take advantage of the fact that Kawasaki was in town and open to answering all our questions about technology, the future of Twitter and to confirm from his now outsider’s perspective, that Hawaii state government is indeed dysfunctional. If rail is to be built, for instance, we all agreed it should — like all major cities — connect the major destinations of airport, downtown, university and Waikiki. What I feel is once this major segment is completed, operational AND breaking even, then add in the ‘burbs. What we don’t need is a train that starts in Kapolei and goes nowhere. Just as with the Aloha Stadium, I just don’t trust our government and their contractors (cronies) to get it right the first time. We don’t need a $4 billion albatross, any more than we need a vanity convention center that doesn’t appear to be booking conventions.
Sorry, just had to get that out. Anyway, some of you may remember the Kalihi kid became famous 20 years ago as an Apple evangelist, went on to found the venture capital firm Garage Technology Ventures, Truemors and now Alltop.com. So, it’s enlightening to hear him asking the same questions as the rest of us, as to where Twitter and the Internet is taking us. Twitter’s architecture is not all that stable, so it was kind of funny that he’s worried it’ll implode one day and leave us all without our networks. He has 14,000 to 15,000 followers and said it’s hard to get that many from any other of the social networking sites.
Before going, I was trying to talk one of my friends into going, and trying to explain the world of Twitter. It’s as weird for those on Twitter to meet people who haven’t heard of it, as it is for someone outside the Twitter universe to comprehend its utility. She ended up saying something like, “Omigod, it’s this whole underworld that people don’t even know about,” before deciding to pass. (more…)
By Nadine Kam
Paco Rabanne’s chainlink armored mini dress, circa 1967, is among the pieces up for grabs via eBay Live June 10. Bidding for this piece will start at about $6,000.
Those who appreciate vintage fashion might enjoy taking a look at the garb up for grabs via eBay Live’s “Passion for Fashion and Fine Textiles,” an auction taking place June 10.
Found it by accident while doing one of my standard searches for Ossie Clark and Lanvin and hit the Mother Lode of European fashion, 1920s through 1980s. What a pleasant surprise. Usually, I feel lucky if I see one beautiful, collectible piece.
I have a love of vintage clothing that dates to my teen years. It was the most tangible way for a girl from Waipahu — pre-Internet — to feel connected to the larger world, past and present. After running my own vintage/consignment boutique here and scoring my own vintage Pucci and Lanvin dresses, I became particularly enamored of the work of European designers done in the 1930s through ’40s, and 1960s through ’70s.
I read that ’40s and ’70s inspired H&M’s Fall 208 collection, described as “sharp, androgynous, elegant.”
You can own Jerry Hall’s Antony Price white lace wedding dress dating to her 1990 marriage to Mick Jagger. Bust 34, waist 26 inches. Who knew she was so tiny? She looks like a big girl standing next to Mick.
Ossie Clark snakeskin coat, circa 1967-68. Bidding starts at about $700. Fits a 34-inch bust. People were tiny back then, before they started pumping up at gyms and supersizing meals.
The auction also features tapestries and garments from the 1700s, and it appears that Jerry Hall is emptying her closet of clothing circa her life with Mick Jagger, including her wedding dress, which is starting at about $300.
Even if you can’t or don’t want to buy anything, it’s fun to look at the pieces and certainly would be beneficial for any alleged student of fashion to see. (more…)
By Nadine Kam
Hi JK!Here’s the Skaffs vid you asked for from last night’s event at Split Obsession, where, because Luke dropped in rather suddenly, fans were unprepared. They actually had to ask him for paper, and then people resorted to passing him dollar bills to sign.
Split Obsession owner Bruce Chin really dug deep when he whipped out a crispy $10 bill. Whoo-hoo!
Geez I’m supposed to be writing a story now, but I turned once again to Animoto.com, which is like Hamburger Helper for your photos and video stills, mashing them together with music and special effects the average person just doesn’t have access to, and coming up with something worth serving.
Try it on fashion, girl’s night out photos, whatever!
Photo by Nadine Kam
Skaffs’ Luke Feldman at work. Check out his site at http://skaffs.com/
By Nadine Kam
If you have a handful of photos, no video editing skills whatsoever and about an hour, Animoto.com can create an instant video clip for you. Tried the service yesterday as soon as I read about it in the Sunday NY Times. Sounded like something fun and easy.
I uploaded 30 photos of a trip I took to Vancouver, B.C., Canada in 2006, which took some time because I had to downsize them to upload quickly. As it happens, instead of shuffling them around, Animoto simply uses them in the order that you enter the photos. After you upload them, you can shuffle them around yourself.
Being something of a control freak, it was difficult for me to accept what they do, and I wanted it to end on a particular photo. You never know exactly how many photos are going to be used, but for a 30-second free video clip, it’s about 6 or 8. (Thirty seconds is really short, but afterward, you have to start paying somehow.) I ended up mashing it up about 10 times, and I don’t 100 percent love the final result, but it’s certainly easier than doing all that work of setting your photos to music (you choose from a handful of their clips), provided you even have all the video-editing tools available to these guys.
Afterward, it’s easy to post to YouTube or FaceBook, which are linked to Animoto.
Try it now that you have a day off to play. Use my referral code — ejqnplmd — to get $5 off an all-access pass and help me get free access :)!
By Nadine Kam
Interesting “argument in pictures” by Karen Lehrman posted on Slate, in which she laments the decline of fashion photography. I would agree with some of her points, but the major point unaddressed is that the images also reflect the times in which they are taken and the designs as well. Not all designs are suited for the gauzy, romantic treatment. Nor is that everyone’s fantasy or aspiration.
New York Times magazine
In the case of these New York Times magazine photos that appeared May 4, designers don’t intend to have their pieces worn this way, but this is how the garments were envisioned by an editorial team, inspired by the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy,” on view through Sept. 1. Like most photography and art today, it is concept driven. Technical ability is assumed.
No doubt the images she admires depict mood, elegance and mastery of the zone system, but, we’ve seen those images before and I wouldn’t want photographers to be limited to the beautiful retro style favored by Lehrman. Even if some of today’s images may be ugly and crude, I respect varying points of view I may not otherwise have had without photographers forging ahead to craft a style of their own.
Check it out at http://www.slate.com/features/010510_fashion-slide-show/01.htm
By Nadine Kam
Second Style
Haver Cole’s interpretation of one of Christian Siriano’s “Project Runway” winning styles in the virtual Second Life magazine Second Style.
Back in earlier days of Second Life, I nosed around for a while but didn’t get that into it. I guess the problem was, my avatar looked just like me.
I could have made my avatar more beautiful, taller, curvier, a Glamazon among women, but I didn’t want to be one of THOSE people who tried to pass myself off as something I’m not.
But I guess I missed the point of having a Second Life, which is to somehow make it better, on every level, than the one you do have.
Ah, who was I trying to kid? I knew exactly which avatars were doubles for their real-life counterparts. I knew which were inauthentic because of their telltale impossibly thin figures and cartoonish beauty. And I shied away from the weirdos with spikes portruding from their bodies, odd hairdos, those that looked like Cartman. I couldn’t help but think that, far from showing humorous traits, they were the embodiment of personality disorders.
Now, a Stanford study tells how, just as in real life, looks matter in Second Life.
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