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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
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The Book - The trend researchers notebook
January 2012
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'Eroticize Intelligence' says Douglas Coupland
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/loofychan/5327069327/
Wearable Food by Sung Yeon Ju
Wearable Food by Sung Yeon Ju
WatchSERIOUSLY! The Future depends on play
WatchThe Future Laboratory - Trend Briefing Oct 2011
Mentality Trends in Urban Time →
December 2011
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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...
My Trend Report now released - Mentality Trends in... →
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WatchMy Trend Report now released - Mentality Trends in Fashin Beauty and Sex
by Salomé Areias
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.
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“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
– Eric Hoffer (via livejamie)
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“High hemline stands for self-control
High heels stand for flawless
Red lips...”
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“Economically affluent countries associate thinness to self control and therefore...”
– Orbach, 1993
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International School of Sex (yes, there are... →
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November 2011
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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)
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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...
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Female Orgasm in Brodmann Brain Regions →
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FEMEN activists protest against Strauss-Khan →
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“A Fashion Democracy without the Tiranny of the Majority”
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October 2011
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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...
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