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When Faculty seeks Council: CFDA Fashion Education Summit

Convening in Soho’s Crosby hotel for the eighth CFDA Fashion Education Summit, members of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, faculty members from the nation’s fashion schools and industry professionals confronted the state of fashion education today. The overarching theme of this year’s gathering of minds was Inclusivity and Diversity,...

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Web Summit: The 'fashionization' of wearables

London - “How far away is the tipping point of wearables?” asked Eric Migicovsky, CEO of Pebble, the first commercialized smartwatch to hit the market during the Web Summit, the world’s largest tech conference in Dublin. “I think that we are close when it comes to size, price and technology. But we are still fighting the battle every day from 2...

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Web Summit: Bringing together ’two polar opposite industries’ Fashion & Tech

With 42,000 people attending from 134 countries around the globe, its safe to say that the Web Summit, held in Dublin, Ireland has grown to become the world’s largest technological conference. Attendees were able to explore 21 different summits covering numerous areas including E-commerce, Virtual Reality and Education for the past 3 days....

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Fashion summit becomes fashion week

What started as a two-day event has now been extended to four days of insight, information and inspiration with the fashion elite. The Fashion Summit 2010 is now being referred to as The Drapers Fashion Week following the addition of two extra dates to the calendar. The annual business event will take place from 15-18 November at the prestigious...