Fashion Designs

Nikicio Clothing — by Ezra Natalia Established in 2006, Nikicio is an Indonesia-based label that infuses humor into traditional menswear-inspired cuts. Creative Director Nina Nikicio's wit shows up in a quirky embroidered dress, quilted bags and a hand-embroidered blanket. Her first collaboration, called Millimeter, with Ginetta Dadia, a young talented accessories designer is also a playful approach to fashion, using colorful hand print-shaped designs. Nikicio's anti-fashion approach, ignores the dictates of seasons, looks beyond trends and shuns the idea that fashion has to be "cohesive" or "sensible" and the unconventional thinking has paid off. After joining the Studio Prive Spring/Summer 07 collection, most... [Tags: autumn winter, colorful hand, comfortable place, creative director, dictates]

Does the Piracy Paradox apply for Patents? — A 2006 paper by Kal Raustiala (UCLA) and Chris Sprigman (UVA) titled the Piracy Paradox discusses intellectual property and the fashion industry. The authors conclude that the legal ability of manufacturers to create knock-off versions of fashion designs actually promotes innovation and investment in that industry. Similar phenomena have been explained in other industries. In music, for instance, some studies have shown that peer-to-peer file sharing of copyrighted work actually increases sales because of the increased popularity of the artist. Since the dawn of radio, record companies have paid stations to broadcast their music – even though the broadcast would... [Tags: amp, dawn, fashion designs, fashion industry, infringement]

Cameesa is a recently launched startup that wants to do for fashion what IndieGoGo is doing for movies. Unlike crowdsourcing where you get free labor, crowdfunding is where people "support" an idea and help is move to fruition. Here's how Cameesa works: Artists upload their fashion designs into the Cameesa system Supporters then provide funding to help the fashion design turn into a real product Assuming the product gets fully supported (100%), the fashion becomes an actual item for ordering in the Cameesa system At that point, the artist gets paid, the supporters get paid and buyers can place... [Tags: badges, catalog products, crowdsourcing, fashion design, fashion designs]