The supermodel Lily Cole had been spotted hanging around with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, but maybe just to glean professional advice.  Cole is launching a social network, impossible.com, predicated on users connecting to one another via altruistic acts. The idea…

The supermodel Lily Cole had been spotted hanging around with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, but maybe just to glean professional advice.  Cole is launching a social network, impossible.com, predicated on users connecting to one another via altruistic acts. The idea…

The Wall Street Journal says that Prada, creator of the costumes in Baz Luhrmann’s forthcoming The Great Gatsby, has incidentally created an entire Gatsby-esque fashion moment. With the film’s looks based off Prada’s own Spring 2011 collection, that may well…

In conjunction with the Italian publishing house Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Prada is sponsoring a literary contest.  Budding writers (over 18 years old) are invited to submit an essay apiece to the fashion house, using this prompt for subject material: “What…

For “green” fashion to lose its crunchy associations, it has to, well, lost its crunchy associations.  A number of European denim brands are taking up the mantle, creating clothing that’s completely eco-friendly, but only as an aside to its upscale…

While the fashion industry is still trying to figure out how to make Pinterest profitable by being more shoppable, the travel industry seems to have gotten the general idea of pinning on lockdown. A new program, Pintrips, uses the concept…

Sydney might be partnering with Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia to do everything they can to make the event as accessible and appealing to local residents as possible, e.g., there is a bar, but the international crowd isn’t being deterred by…

Though Cyprus’ more recent troubles have taken up most of the Euro-zone headlines, Italy’s economy still isn’t doing so hot.  To that end, the luxury brand Tod’s will donate 1% of its net profits annually to small Italian companies, among…

If a new plan from Walmart comes to pass, it could be a neighborly way to get people to connect to one another, in real time.  The company is considering a system in which customers receive discounts for delivering other…

Third Wave Fashion is opening up access to their full fashion tech database, which has 10,000 data points on 670 companies.  Last night, the consulting company’s founder, Liza Kindred, gave a talk on the current state of fashion technology (Third…