New to me Blog

A blog all about tote bags....
http://toteprints.wordpress.com/

Clothes Show Live designers of the year

The clothes show live will be looking for the following young designers of the year, this year:

1. Young Fashion Photographer of the year (16-25)
2. Young designer of the year (18+)
3. Young Blogger of the year (16-20)
4. Young knitter of the year (under 21)
5.  Knitwear designer (18+)

All of the briefs and awards will be available on the website from the 4th of May

http://www.clothesshowlive.com/designawards

Tsunami charity t shirt

This video talks about a charity embroidered T shirt being made and reproduced at the School, by our Postgraduate students:

Scottish Graduate of the year

Dear all we should get a strong entry in for this.....
http://www.scottishfashionawards.com/form/sfa_application_2011.pdf
We know we have the graduate of the year here in Galashiels

Suggestions for magazine links

Dear all I wonder if you could supply suggestions (URLs please) for a new permanent magazine links page? responses via reply below.....

How do you playlist your music?

The university is undertaking research into playlists and how, when and why people create playlists...
Do you have any specific playlists for fashion? or designing, making, creating....
the researchers would like you to contribute..... lets see if fashion makes the research more special....
http://listening-research.blogspot.com/

Glam 70s

worldwide exposure.........do you know any of these likely lads and lasses?

arts thread

Arts Thread are a really useful website with practical advice on lots of aspects of jobsearch, placements etc
http://www.artsthread.com/

ITS10 competition

The winning prize is £30,000 and a six month placement with Diesel. 

Many thanks to Samantha for this link...

HERIOT WATT DUBAI FASHION: Heriot Watt Dubai Main Fashion Design Studio

HERIOT WATT DUBAI FASHION: Heriot Watt Dubai Main Fashion Design Studio

Dubai-Fashion School blog

Please follow the link to our colleagues and their blog in Dubai
http://www.fashion-dubai.blogspot.com/

FDI4 Thursday line ups

Please follow the link below to see your collections
https://picasaweb.google.com/Mark.Timmins/FDI4Feb2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCPDTqdHZgvP0TA&feat=directlink

British Heart Foundation

https://picasaweb.google.com/Mark.Timmins/BHF?feat=directlink

Dear all
Please follow the link to the preview of the British Heart Foundation preview

Google art project

This has to be the quickest way to see some of the worlds best pieces of art.....
you can visit the worlds best galleries at the touch of a button create your own gallery collection of paintings and share them with friends and the world...
http://www.googleartproject.com/

Interesting blog about 3d garments

Dear all you may be interested in the folowing blog
http://softcircuit.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/3d-printed-textil-iris-van-herpen-and-her-clothes-frozen-in-time/

an online fashion magazine from Issuu

Please find below an interesting magazine on issuu
http://issuu.com/nena.tsamparli/docs/magazine_devinne_low_res

Film and Fashion

New permalink at the bottom of the blog to the relationship between film and fashion
with an amazing image below on the title page of the the third fashion in film festival.
This will maybe kick start some thinking for FDI 4 about your mini fashion movie to be undertaken next semester.

Surreal garments walkthrough

Dear all
Please find below and in the title a link to todays walkthrough....
http://picasaweb.google.com/Mark.Timmins/SurrealGarmentsDec2010
Remember to ask Santa for a sewing machine if you do not have one..

Patsy Perry guest contributer talks about the Drapers Fashion Summit

Patsy Perry, Deputy Programme Director of the MSc International Fashion Marketing, attended the Drapers Fashion Summit 2010 conference in London on 16-17 November. The conference kicked off with a keynote presentation from Carl McPhail, CEO of UK fast fashion retailer New Look, and moved on to a series of presentations and discussion panels with some of the UK fashion industry’s most influential and key personalities. In terms of the consumer angle, the main focus was on how the fashion industry can harness new technologies of the digital revolution to drive growth and capture the hearts and minds of consumers in a sector beleaguered by downward price pressure. Although internet sales of electronics and books have recently plateaued, fashion e-commerce is a big growth sector and is set to increase by 350% over the next 10 years. Multi-channel retailing enables retailers to capture tech-savvy, time-poor customers and with the advent of ‘click-and-collect’ services, also generates extra revenue by driving halo sales in store. Mobile internet use is set to eclipse desktop commerce within the next 5 years, and innovation is driven by the Middle East, the Far East and Sub-Saharan Africa, due to their lack of fixed line infrastructure. The 3G smartphone era has led to a shift in consumer behaviour – a new breed of ‘always online’ consumers that want 24/7 choice and access irrespective of the platform they are interacting from. In terms of sourcing, after a decade of price deflation, 2010 saw the culmination of many adverse factors which increased costs and uncertainty of global apparel sourcing. The evolution of China from a production economy to a consumption economy has led to a reduction in factory capacity: while China used to export 80% of its cotton output, in 2010 60% was used for domestic consumption. Therefore price and quality factors have now been overtaken by buyer concern for capacity. Furthermore, the ‘Foxconn effect’ and concern over global sourcing ethics has led to the doubling of the basic wage in China, which has had a knock-on effect in the garment industry as well as pushing up prices in neighbouring countries. Finally, in terms of graduate employability and the question of how can the fashion industry employ more graduate talent from UK universities, the overriding message was that there is a need for intelligent, professional people who can contribute to the industry. However, universities teaching vocational subjects such as fashion (whether design or marketing) need to make sure they are up to speed with new developments in the industry, whether that is multi-channel retailing, social media marketing or global sourcing trends, so that graduates entering industry are able to hit the ground running. It would appear that there is great value in fostering university-industry linkages for vocational degree programmes in particular, whether that is achieved through industry visits, guest speakers, work placements or work shadowing opportunities.

Showstudio.com

Dear all please have a look at this website it links in with 1st year holiday project (4th years please have a look to help your interns!) and will also link to 4th year trend project.
http://www.showstudio.com/