Emerald City Fashion Week Becomes the Official Seattle Chapter of FashionCamp.Org
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Emerald City Fashion Week is pleased to announce that we are now the official Seattle chapter of Fashion Camp. Fashion Camp bridges the gap between the worlds of fashion and technology and illustrates the many ways they affect each other in the 21st century, exploring new techniques, new materials, new business models, and new possibilities. Fashion Camp will brings together the mainstream fashion world, the indie and vintage fashion world, and the wearable technology fashion world in a weekend of learning, networking, and exploration.
Fashion Camp is a free, two-day volunteer-run conference with workshops and presentations for anyone interested in technology and fashion. Over the course of these two days attendees participate in open workshops. This forward looking, participant driven meeting of the minds and worlds of fashion and tech aims to chronicle and advance the dialog between these two disciplines within a loose “BarCamp” styled framework conducive to creativity, collaboration and exploration. Discussions, demos and open participatory workshops are attended — and run! — by the participants. The event doesn’t cost any money, but there is a price: most of the attendees must give a demo, present a talk, or assist. Fashion Camp is made possible through the generous support of community and businesses. Sponsorship and presentation opportunities are available.
The inaugural Seattle FashionCamp is still in the planning stages and will be announced in the coming months once our website is live. “This is a huge step forward for merging Seattle Tech and Fashion,” Says Steven Paul Matsumoto. “Seattle already has a thriving Tech industry and now is the time to begin rebuilding a once thriving apparel industry in the region.”
Emerald City Fashion Week’s mission is to revitalize the apparel industry in the Pacific Northwest by combining educational opportunities, runway shows, events and parties to bring awareness to the local designer scene.
For more information on Fashion Camp, visit http://fashioncamp.org
For more information on Emerald City Fashion Week, visit http://emeraldcityfashionweek.com or contact Steven Paul Matsumoto, producer, at steve@stigmare.com
