Project Runway Season 9 Premiere

Posted on by Ashley Laurel

Well the much talked about opener for Project Runway for Season 9 finally happened last night. And I have no shame in saying that I spent quite a few minutes watching old clips of Tim “Gunnisms” on YouTube today purely out of excitement.

Many of my friends were also excited, like Boston-based Brian Forte over at Please Welcome Your Judges, and Twitter friend Yuli Ziv of Style Coalition from New York City. In fact, in conjunction with HP, Style Coalition and hosted a special blogger event just for the occasion! While I wasn’t lucky enough to attend that event, and test out some fashion friendly HP products, I did watch the show from my couch in San Francisco (while doing some online window shopping on my iPad- hey, I can never get too much fashion and tech).

Source: MyLifetime.com

Now, onto the contestants. While David Chum, Becky Ross, and Olivier Green were my three favorites leading up to the show premiere, Bert really turned it out and deserved the win for the first challenge. He might be my new favorite? I’ll wait and see.

Already you can vote for your fan favorite on the Lifetime website, check out the official Project Runway blog, and blogs about this season from some former contestants (like Peach!). Also, you can view a real-time feed that shows what people are saying about each designer if you go to their bio pages.

Since the preview for the rest of the season looks particularly juicy, I can’t wait to watch the drama unfold both on TV and online.

In the meantime, happy birthday to Mr. Tim Gunn!!!

Seventeen Magazine’s Virtual Fashion Show

Posted on by Ashley Laurel

When I was a Seventeen Magazine reader I used to cut out pictures of outfits I liked and make collages or decorate my room. Now teens can just hop on Twitter and learn about Seventeen’s virtual modeling competition.

How does this it all work? Seventeen hosted Back-to-School Fashion month on Habbo (basically Second Life for teens) and then ran a modeling competition on the social network/virtual site called “Habbo Model”.

Teens participated in a series of online gaming competitions, including a Runway Warm-up, Runway Design Challenge, a Quick Chance (not sure what this means), and Trivia, ending in a final virtual runway show today.

Perhaps this winner will be featured in a future issue of the magazine?

Wearable Tech Event: 5 Days Off

Posted on by Ashley Laurel


The Dutch Institute for Media and the 5 Days Off festival boasted a segment called “Wearable Technology- Powered Art and Fashion Design” from July 15th– 19th. Innovators Sabine Seymour, author of the book “Fashionable Technology” (which is a great read by the way!), Di Mainstone of Sharewear, Elena Corchero of Solar Vintage, Mauro Arrighi of DADAgear, and others, showed off their fashionably techie work. The work showcased the intersection of fashion and technology in terms of, as the event website says, “a vision for the future of our second skin, our clothes, a relevant element in our social life, in our communication and our interaction with others. This is achieved by the seamless incorporation of electronics in textiles”. 

Currently dying to attend an event like this.