What Happens When Bloggers Share Too Much

Recent debate about disclosure of our personal lives as it relates to daily activity and sex on The Cut, coupled with a debate on IFB have led up to bring by this post we wrote in May.

How personal should bloggers get online? The editors of FMM discuss the dangers of sharing too much.
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State of Menswear: Lessons from A Continuous Lean

The Fairchild Fashion Media Menswear Summit outlines tools for success in the menswear market.

Last month, key executives from the menswear industry came together at the Fairchild Fashion Media Menswear Summit. Featuring insight from and about trailblazing people, products, brands, and strategies, the event offered attendees tools for succeeding—and leading—in the shifting menswear market.
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Stylesight Partners with CTIC to Expand in China

Stylesight has entered an exclusive partnership with the China Textile Information Center (CTIC). Stylesight is now the official partner for all CTIC online initiatives, while CTIC, part of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, will assume all sales, marketing and client services for Stylesight in mainland China.
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Holiday Windows, Digital Darwinism and Facebook

Five Things to Read This Week:

• Brian Solis on Digital Darwinism – Why certain brands won’t survive the digital age.
• Building a Social Brand with Evangelical Customers – Wanna know how brands can convert social customers in brand ambassadors? Mashable tells you all about it in its end of the year content. Need help in crafting a social media identity? Mashable has an indepth article on how the top 5 social lifestyle brands did it.

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U.K. Business Summit: The Digital Future of Fashion

Fashion is tough. What now and where next?

That was the underlying theme at the Drapers Fashion Summit held in London earlier this week. Both the High End and High Street are taking some hard knocks.

Consumers have changed and to stay in the game, brands and retailers too. It’s either adapt or die. It’s just that simple, even if the reality of fashion is no longer simple.
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Fashion Startups & Publishers Assemble In NYC To Discuss Innovation

The Assembled Fashion event in New York City at General Assembly brought together an impressive, tightly-packed lineup of VCs, fresh fashion startups, influential bloggers and established brands. In short, all the good things NYC has to offer. The event featured seven panels and two additional presentations, offering several rounds of networking with industry leaders exchanging ideas and sharing their knowledge and experience.
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Trend Spotted: Pantone’s Spring 2012 Colors

There’s nothing we like more than visually appealing, pretty things in our digital and physical mailboxes. While in New York, I picked up a copy of Pantone’s spring 2012 color report at the Handbag Designer Workshop. The PDF contains the “it” colors for spring, designer profiles and the fashion designers who inspired our wave of spring trends. For a free digital copy of the report, head to Pantone’s site and download it!
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New York City Fashion Firms Seek To Attract Top Student Talent

New York City Economic Development Corporation and Parsons The New School for Design have launched a joint initiative called Fashion Draft NYC.

Fashion Draft NYC is one of six fashion industry-focused initiatives announced in November 2010 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg as part of NYC’s push to help build on its competitive advantages and enhance its status as a global fashion capital.
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