Social Style

Fashion networking sites and apps give stylistas an online playground

Implications - Social media may have once been labeled as “nerdy” by fashionistas, but now style-mavens are embracing it to spread their passion for fashion to others around the world. Sites and apps dedicated to fashion sharing, voting and shopping are allowing style-conscious consumers to connect to each other online, making fashion an integrated experience that threatens the existence of one-dimensional magazines, advertisements and fashion shows.

Trend Themes

  1. Social Media Fashion Networking — Fashionistas embracing social media by sharing, voting, and shopping on sites and apps creating an integrated shopping experience.
  2. Interactive Retail Technology — Retailers integrating technology in stores, such as touchscreen panels, augmented reality, and analytics dashboards, to create an interactive and personalized shopping experience.
  3. Fashion Democracy — Shopping Forecast enables shoppers to view, comment, vote, and share next season's styles, creating a fashion democracy where the shopper can help influence what appears in stores.

Industry Implications

  1. Retail — Industry professionals can explore integrating interactive technology in stores to create a personalized and interactive shopping experience.
  2. Fashion & Styling — Fashion professionals can use social media to promote, share, and embrace fashion, creating a new integrated shopping experience for consumers.
  3. E-commerce — Industry professionals can develop online tools such as Google Boutiques for busy consumers with no time to shop in stores, creating a new personalized online shopping experience.
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Megatrends
8 Featured, 59 Examples:
1,124,983 Total Clicks
Date Range:
Sep 10 — Jan 11
Trending:
Warm

Featured Examples

Stylista Social Sites
Stylista Social Sites
Style By Me is a New Fashion-Forward Lookbook Site
Style By Me is a new and innovative lookbook for local Northwest Arkansas. The website and submissions have gained fast success within only four days after release. Even though Style By Me is relatively… MORE
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The Shopping Forecast Lets You Vote for Next Season
For all of you shopaholics who would like a hand in what ends up in stores, the Shopping Forecast is your registration to vote. This fashion-forward website is your ticket to view, vote, comment and share… MORE
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Try on Any Pair of Shoes with the Converse Sampler iPhone App
Cool cats from the streets and high-top lovers alike can now shop straight from their smartphone with the new Converse Sampler iPhone App. Using augmented reality, this new app will let you sample any… MORE
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Google Boutiques.com Propels into the World of Online Fashion
If you're one of those individuals with no time to shop, then don't fret, because Google has joined the world of haute couture with the newly launched Google Boutiques.com. Designed specifically for the… MORE
Fashion Trend Predictors
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Polyvore Online Styling Community Releases an Analytics Dashboard
The Polyvore Online Styling Community has recently released an analytics dashboard, offering fashion houses, designers and brands a way to measure how their goods are performing on the site. Tracking… MORE
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Get Gap Foursquare Deals with Just a Click of the "Follow" Button
This all-American retailer is furthering its reach and targeting shoppers with a new Gap Foursquare ad campaign, integrating an "Add to Foursquare" button on its online adverts. The campaign is geared… MORE
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Personal Skyping Now a Style Stable for the Home
Skype is taking over the world of online communication, and now it’s a burgeoning go-to interactive fashion site. Used by designers like Norma Kamali, who foresees it as a considerable advantage for personal… MORE

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