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Fashion Week may be over, but there are those of us still deep in the trenches. This weekend, FashionCampNY is meeting at Parsons to discuss issues and techniques for fashion and technology. Everyone was invited to speak on whatever inspires them or knowledge they want to share.
The simple rules were these: [1] Share you knowledge: if you have something to speak on, write it on a piece of paper and post it on the board. [2] The rule of feet: Attend whatever talks you want, if you find it uninteresting, don’t disturb the talk or cause problems, just walk out and find something more interesting.
While attendees enjoyed themselves presenting, listening, and mingling throughout the day, I enjoyed myself taking pictures of said people presenting, listening, and mingling.
The FashionCamp schedule. In barcamp style, presenters write their proposed talks on a piece of paper and stick it to the scheduling grid the morning of the event. People would occasionally come up and ask me what tomorrow would be like, and I was pleased to tell them that their guess was as good as mine. That is the beauty of FashionCamp.
Sabine Seymour presenting pieces featured in her book, Fashionable Technology. This piece on spray-on fabric particularly caught the attendees imaginations. Just check out the #fashioncamp2010 feed to get a sense of what the attendees are saying.
Group discussing sustainable fashion. It’s quite the hot topic in fashion right now but so easily oversimplified. People like easy solutions rather than recognizing such complexities as how organic cotton isn’t as durable as its non-organic processed cousin. How creation process must also be tempered by it’s longevity, and one must always consider not just how it is constructed but how it will be deconstructed.







