February 2012
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
Future of Fashion @Urban Times, by Salome Areias →
A brief overview about posible future scenarios in Fashion: 1 – We are afraid – We will build refuge 2 – We need sustainability – We will create balance 3 – We have scarce resources – We will valorize them 4 – We have no choice – We will adapt
Feb 6th
Just got mine!
The Book - The trend researchers notebook
Feb 2nd
January 2012
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Jan 20th
'Eroticize Intelligence' says Douglas Coupland
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/loofychan/5327069327/
Jan 20th
Wearable Food by Sung Yeon Ju
Wearable Food by Sung Yeon Ju
Jan 19th
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Jan 17th
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SERIOUSLY! The Future depends on play
Jan 11th
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The Future Laboratory - Trend Briefing Oct 2011
Jan 11th
Jan 6th
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Mentality Trends in Urban Time →
Jan 4th
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December 2011
12 posts
The four I's, by Dr. Jeremy Sherman
«I0 (I to the zeroth power): This is life’s basic state, behavior without self-examination, self-awareness, self-consciousness, or self-reflection. It’s the closest we get to how the rest of life lives. We call it acting instinctively or intuitively, or putting behavior on autopilot. In humans, I0behavior can be either innate or learned. Sleeping, wound healing, breathing, and blood...
Dec 21st
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My Trend Report now released - Mentality Trends in... →
Dec 19th
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My Trend Report now released - Mentality Trends in Fashin Beauty and Sex by Salomé Areias
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
What Consumer Culture Will Look Like In 2020 (And... →
dgtlbro: It may only be eight years away, but a lot of things could change by 2020, driven by climate change and limited resources. How that will affect the ways we interact with brands remains to be seen, but there are a few likely paths.
Dec 18th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
– Eric Hoffer (via livejamie)
Dec 12th
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“High hemline stands for self-control High heels stand for flawless Red lips...”
Dec 11th
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“Economically affluent countries associate thinness to self control and therefore...”
– Orbach, 1993
Dec 6th
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International School of Sex (yes, there are... →
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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November 2011
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Just bought
Fashion Trends, Analysis and Forecasting - Kim, E.; Fiore A. M.; Kim, H. (2011)  This text is designed to introduce undergraduate students to the central concepts of fashion trend analysis and forecasting. Exploring the roles of both consumers and industry personnel as product developers, gatekeepers, and promoters of fashion trends, the book demonstrates how and why forecasting is vital to...
Nov 30th
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Just bought
The Trend Forecaster’s Handbook - Martin Raymond (2010) The Trend Forecasters Handbook is a sharp, in-depth and highly visual textbook and teaching aid for students and tutors keen to know more about the world of trends, trend forecasting and consumer-insight techniques. Trends are a fundamental part of our emotional, physical and psychological landscape, and by forecasting trends, or...
Nov 30th
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Is Empathy In Our Genes? (CNN) →
psychotherapy: A large part of how we relate to people emotionally may be hardwired into our DNA. A new study suggests that character traits such as being open, caring, and trusting are so strongly linked to a certain gene variation that a total stranger, simply by watching us listen to another person, may be able to guess whether we have the variation with a high degree of accuracy. Previous...
Nov 29th
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Nov 22nd
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“It’s hard looking this good and feeling this bad. But who wants to be ugly and...”
– Marie Claire (via breakfastatbarneys)
Nov 21st
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As women's heels head lower, is the economy...
What do shoes say about the economy? Perhaps a lot. In the 1920s, low-heeled flapper shoes gave way to high-heel pumps and platforms during the Great Depression. In the 1970s oil crisis, platforms came back en vogue as the low-heeled sandals of the late 1960s were cast aside. In the 1990s, the low, thick heels of the “grunge” period were replaced by “Sex and the...
Nov 20th
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Nov 19th
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Female Orgasm in Brodmann Brain Regions →
Nov 17th
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Nov 16th
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FEMEN activists protest against Strauss-Khan →
Nov 10th
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Nov 10th
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Nov 10th
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Nov 3rd
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“A Fashion Democracy without the Tiranny of the Majority”
Nov 3rd
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Nov 3rd
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October 2011
10 posts
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We've reached 7 billion!
Enter the Anthropocene - Age of Man It’s a new name for a new geologic epoch—one defined by our own massive impact on the planet. That mark will endure in the geologic record long after our cities have crumbled. By Elizabeth KolbertPhotograph by Jens Neumann/Edgar Rodtmann The path leads up a hill, across a fast-moving stream, back across the stream, and then past the carcass of a sheep. In my...
Oct 31st
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Oct 31st
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Oct 28th
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Oct 14th
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Oct 14th
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Oct 13th
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Oct 11th
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Oct 10th
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À rebours
By Ivan Venkov The statement of the object is partially based on the novel of Joris-Karl Huysmans – “À rebours”, mainly on the passage about gems encrusted tortoise. “A Rebours defines the decadent spirit as one of simulation-that the idea of a thing is purer-and therefore more desirable-than the thing itsself. This is best illustrated in one of the most famous chapters where, after a lengthy...
Oct 10th
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Oct 10th
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September 2011
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“Love couldn’t care less about your poker face. It goes after what is...”
– Mari Ruti, The Juicy Bits
Sep 30th
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