apple
The Apple Watch is a pretty big chunk of cash for an unknown quantity. To erase the mental pressure myself, and generate some reassurance that I wasn’t blowing the cash, I took myself over to Brighton for a Watch try-on session last week . I was met by a nice
coffee
Fascinating: Design is such a vital part of retail experiences.
bloggers
I got an e-mail from Next (the clothes and homewares people, not the conference people) earlier. This is what it looked like: Yes, Next is selling “blogger style” as a look. Is there any other industry where blogging has been so throughly assimilated into the way it operates as fashion?
3d printing
I’ve been mildly obsessed by the work of Continuum Fashion [http://www.continuumfashion.com] since I saw Mary Huang speak at NEXT Berlin [http://nextberlin.eu/2012/05/selling-fashion-online-and-printing-clothes/] last year. In particular, their Constrvct [https://constrvct.com] service looks to me far more like the future of fashion
cities
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/02/Dan-Thompson-talks-Pop-Up-People.jpg] Online shopping. Out of town retail. The economy. Our town centres have problems . Dan Thompson, the man behind the empty shop we used for the [Brighton Future of News journalism day](http://shorehambfongproject.tumblr.com/), and the