What do you want to see at Fashion Camp? This is where YOU can suggest sessions—things you want to talk about, or things you want to learn about—and to suggest speakers if you have any in mind.
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113 votes
Demo our in-store touchscreen kiosk designed exclusively for retail apparel
We are in early stage conversations with a national mall-based apparel retailer on a in-store consumer kiosk. We would love your honest feedback on our proto and business concept.
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102 votes
Sustainable fashion: trend or movement?
What is sustainable fashion? How do brands and consumers engage in it? What does the future of sustainable fashion look like? How can you participate in sustainable fashion now?
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37 votes
Collaborative and Crowdsourcing Design
Showcasing and discussion about collaborative fashion design (e.g. open source sewing) and copyright free online tools and resources for fashion designers and hobby seamstresses.
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37 votes
running a fashion/style blog
how to start, build readership, and maintain traffic on a fashion/style blog
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35 votes
"how to sell online" e-commerce solutions
How's a young designer to get their product to market? Learn about various e-commerce solutions that are suitable for the fashion world.
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32 votes
photos: shoot, edit, post your own to keep your website fresh
can't afford expensive photographers? Need to update your site often. Learn tricks on how to shoot and upload your photos for a website.
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31 votes
Intro to sewing
Intro level sewing course, covering threading a machine, cutting out pattern pieces, and sewing basic seams.
Needs to be finished in a double block of time (probably 1.5hrs). Tote bag is a likely candidate.
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29 votes
innovative technology-driven business models
new business models using technology platforms to drive or create fashion
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27 votes
How Boutiques and Small Apparel Retailers Are Using Technology to Overcome Challenges
Boutique and Small Apparel Retail Owners & Managers come together to discuss some of the challenges facing them and their business how they could possible be resolved through the embracing of technology.
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25 votes
socially responsible sourcing/manufacturing
for accessories and apparel
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19 votes
where and how to get investors for your tech fashion business
i have a business, marketing and manufacturing pla, a great product and a working prototype.
where do i meet potential investors and pitch my business to them?
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18 votes
Retail Buying - how it works and how it's changing
how technology is changing retail buying strategy in fashion
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18 votes
The Market for and Future of Sustainable Fashion
What does the "green" movement mean for fashion and is sustainable design a viable avenue in fashion design.
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17 votes
History of Fashion and Technology
An overview of the relationship between technology and the fashion system throughout history. Technical, aesthetic and social/cultural realms will be explored.
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15 votes
Anything but Fabric
New materials are popping up daily and expanding the fashion designers pallet. Explore what designers have been doing in this experimental space and discuss how it can be expanded.
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14 votes
Create a local research group for implementation of new technologies and wearables
A space, time to share ideas, create rough prototypes and build a volume of research work locally.
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14 votes
Beauty and Privacy: How To Stand Out By Blending In
Overview of the intersection of beauty and privacy. Why privacy is important and how, in an age of shrinking privacy, fashion can save your mortal soul. This is also an introduction and preliminary presentation of my thesis at ITP.
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13 votes
environmental data collecting wearables
A discussion about how wearable technology can be used to passively collect extremely valuable data about our immediate surroundings. Pollutants such as carbon monoxide, dust, methane gas, noise, light and more are now easily measured with sensors small enough to be worn. This new form of resea... more
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13 votes
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11 votes
Utilizing Social Platforms in Branding and Niche Blogging
Which platforms and how to use them. Going beyond Twitter and Facebook to create comprehensive branding for your fashion blog.
