Louis Vuitton as a brand has "finally" come to social media, via Twitter. Their official Twitter username is LouisVuitton_US. Like most famous companies or people, they've already gathered thousands of Tweep followers, and also like those bigwigs, follow few themselves. But the difference is LV is not following fellow designers, but more "true"? friends, namely their fans who show some of the most support; fashion bloggers. The designer twitter team is mostly following the biggest blogs in the name of fashion, with other choice quality sites, as well as magazines.
So perhaps if you show up on their radar, Louis Vuitton will follow you, too?
Rachel Roy, designer of what you see above and more, is debuting a diffusion line, Rachel Rachel Roy, to be sold exclusively at Macy*s department store, and she's in the midst of introducing this (and to many still, herself) online ... through Twitter. (source: Style It)
Today, Thursday April 30th at 3 p.m. EST she will be answering your questions (if tweeted with the #rachelroy characters) via a groundbreaking (or is it really?) Twitter Press Conference @rachel_roy. We believe there is still time to get questions in this morning. Also note Rachel tweeted through @Coutorture yesterday as well, discussing the corresponding fashion show.
This should be interesting as far as Internet breakthroughs and tech fun are concerned, and to those in the fashion world, especially blogosphere, but of course it's also about the clothes. So enjoy these selections from her main line's current collection, above.
No makeup, and no retouching on a magazine cover... With bonus additional covers to boot. French Elle only out of the empire is doing something novel with models (and celebs). Blog high five!
By the way, how can these lovely ladies look so good all on their own?! Day-umn! Go elle, go girls!
From Fashionologie
So the story goes that Kim Kardashian was in a mag called Complex and they posted extra photos to the website, but accidentally one was a pre-touched up version. It was later replaced without explanation with a very, well I'll be myself and say "surreal" supermodel shot.
Photoshop Before & After:
What do I, an independent woman, see here?
A beautiful, bootiful before; a body I'd like to have.
And a totally fake, unrealistic, cruelly-torturing "after".
The graphic "artist" *creamed* up Kim's thighs, tucked in her tummy, lightened her skin, gave her hairline that *wig* look, and you know what? "Fixed up" (digitally tailored?) her clothes. You see it all?
I love a real woman, and any one, man, woman, whatever who doesn't - doesn't love women, period.
Or A Bad Day leads to a Good Discovery Or Nerd-Cool Website: Comic Strip Generator!
I discovered a new (I think, because I searched for this last Spring) comic strip generator, StripGenerator.com, because I really wanted a royalty free way to show you how yesterday went for me. (Like the Charlie BrownARRG, but I'm we're not supposed to use copyrighted images). It was actually luck and fun that I couldn't used a licensed image, because I discovered this service, and may now even run a little blog about the outsider-of-fashion-biz life de Ella (I imagine Ella's story is titled Ella Skips the City, because this fashion-gal will never move to NYC).
Here is my blog/cartoon depicting pretty much my entire yesterday:
Their best features are available once you sign up, but the characters are slightly lacking in expression and options, or perhaps just for females. Sort of understandably? Still, this is definitely a cute site and a step in the right direction, however...
It doesn't seem a great solution for my dreamed-of comic, Sex and Mythology. Tehe. Someday........
Made up of a team of beauty-outsider scientists, led by an MIT professor is the beauty/science company, Living Proof. They have a line of hair care that reduces frizz, while also helps straightness or curl/wave AND can help speed blow-drying time.
Jessica Biel hosted the (mostly*) untelevised Science & Technology Oscars last night, which is an honor always given to a "reigning Hollywood hottie". Guys can tell me - or anyone - is Biel the highest "reigning" of the moment?
I wonder if she's the top choice of guys or merely the top semi-insider who has a lot of recent buzz due to relationship with femme-fave Justin Timberlake. I would think there's a lot of guy-attention competition, especially in geek world, with Transformers' star, Megan Fox. Curious female minds want to know.
Please - guys or gals, geeks or fashionistas - respond in the comments!
*Only excerpts from the SciTech Oscars are shown during the major telecast of the Oscars. Still you might want to tune in if you really want to catch a glimpse of Biel.
The gossip is that Mr. President Obama might be addicted to his Blackberry because he's actually addicted to the game, BrickBreaker. (The game's official website must be experiencing too many hits right now because it's down.)
Now this is something "reported" by Star Magazine. And when I ask can you believe it, I meant it; can we believe this news? Would Barack not let his toy go because of one game???
Web 2.0, the social thang, etc. are catching on tremendously well, and it's truly great for the times we live in and anyone who works with current information in the online broadcasting platforms. Especially running a website that requires marketing to readers new and current alike. Getting in on this action is so helpful to nearly any business today, and now some social big media is even helping the users do just that.
Right now the big event in the fashion world and style-blogosphere is obviously fashion week. And the best social tool for new information - Twitter! Even if just for fun we should all try out following those Tweeting about the events and even live Tweeting (often from the newest phones - ahh gimme an iPhone please, thank you) from the rows at fashion shows, themselves (if you can stand the jealousy from your home computer).
Glam.com has a section devoted to live Tweeting (and Flickr posting) from Fashion Week. It can introduce you to a lot of people to follow or just be the entire way you "follow" the events or messages, themselves. Another service to use is usually for general topics on Twitter, but especially any hot current event - Twitter's own search (try the search for nyfw). With this you can more easily follow conversations, users ("Twits") and even search for related keywords to capture users you might have missed. (TIP: if you don't use spaces you'll better catch the topics specially formatted to get found. The special tag for New York Fashion Week is #NYFW.)
And when you, yourself, Twitter about it, make sure to include that "code" in your tweet message somewhere. Bonus Tip: If you auto publish your blog entries to your Twitter, include the code at the end of your blog subjects (or beginning of the entry text if your auto-posting service uses this [and your subject is short].) Then you can get broadcasted yourself, and hopefully get a little publicity, maybe some "@" replies and hopefully some Twitter followers. Yes, it's all good - unless you can't stand the addiction with which you could afflict yourself.
To sum up here are just a few of my most suggested Twits to follow (at least right now): click to continue
We're not quite ready to give away our own things at the moment, but in the spirit of this recession we love highlighting some other sites' giveaways for you. It's really all win-win in one way or another. (Unless you're sad to lose, sorry if you do.)
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Louis Vuitton as a brand has "finally" come to social media, via Twitter. Their official Twitter username is LouisVuitton_US. Like most famous companies or people, they've already gathered thousands of Tweep followers, and also like those bigwigs, follow few themselves. But the difference is LV is not following fellow designers, but more "true"? friends, namely their fans who show some of the most support; fashion bloggers. The designer twitter team is mostly following the biggest blogs in the name of fashion, with other choice quality sites, as well as magazines.
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