Digital snippets: Peter Som, Bergdorfs, Prada, Jean Paul Gaultier, American Eagle

There’s been a lot happening in the fashion and technology space over the past couple of weeks, ranging from Proenza Schouler’s new site to Net-a-Porter moving into the beauty space. News of Pinterest’s new analytics platform and Facebook’s planned integration of the hashtag have also hit. Here are the rest of the highlights sourced from around the web…

Don’t forget to check out this wrap-up report from SXSW Interactive as it applies to the fashion industry too.

 

• Behind Peter Som’s 3.3 million Pinterest followers [BoF]

• Insider Access: Q&A with Cannon Hodge, Bergdorf Goodman [Fashion’s Collective]

• Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola made a Prada film (as per above trailer) [Fashionista]

• Jean Paul Gaultier launches responsive web design [Web&Luxe]

• American Eagle spoof video pokes fun at skinny jeans trend [NY Daily News]

• Neiman Marcus launches fashion contest on Pinterest [WWD]

• Justin Bieber plays drums in adidas NEO interactive lookbook [MTV Style]

• Aeropostale launching new tech for teens [Business Insider]

• Puma seeks to celebrate individuality with Worn My Way lifestyle campaign [Marketing magazine]

• 3D printing clothes at home could be reality by 2050 [PSFK]

• Google Glass app identifies you by your fashion sense [NewScientist]

• Zalando concept car spots fashions, transforms into changing room [Gizmag]

• China entering e-commerce and mobile “golden age”. So why are fashion brands lagging? [Jing Daily]

• What real-time branding means for luxury brands [Luxury Daily]

Digital snippets: Uniqlo, Abercrombie, Louis Vuitton, Nike, J.Crew, Club Monaco, Tory Burch, adidas

I’m playing a massive round of catch-up post work and leisure travel… more on the former to follow, but in the meantime, here’s a look at some of the biggest stories surrounding all things fashion and digital from the past couple of weeks. Did I miss anything? Let me know in the comments below…

 

• Uniqlo mesmerises Pinterest users with mass pinning for Dry Mesh Project [BrandChannel]

• Abercrombie & Fitch models cover ‘Call me Maybe’, video goes viral (as above) [Abercrombie & Fitch]

• Louis Vuitton’s new interactive site teaches you how to pack [FastCo.Create]

• Nike becomes first UK company to have Twitter campaign banned [The Guardian]

• J.Crew’s latest online venture, Hello World, invites Scott Schuman and Garance Doré to capture five global tastemakers [Refinery29]

• Club Monaco launches Facebook Timeline app [Mashable]

• Tory Burch resets with app, revised blog [WWD]

• adidas athletes #takethestage in its biggest-ever marketing push [Campaign]

• American Eagle launches #LiveYourLife campaign [FashionablyMarketing.me]

• Fashion to embrace ‘social gaming’ [WWD]

• Nasty Gal’s Sophia Amoruso: fashion’s new phenom [Forbes]

• Pinterest has users, Fancy has a business model [AdWeek]

• NYC and Mayor Bloomberg launch Project PopUp, a fashion tech start-up competition [BoF]

• Mobile payments: what’s taking so long, and who’s going to win? [Business Insider (special report)]

• 10 fashion memes that took the internet by storm [Fashionista]

Digital billboards in Times Square, New York

American Eagle and Forever 21′s digital billboards in New York might have been written about numerous times before, but seeing them firsthand is quite another experience, so I couldn’t help but get my camera out.

Forever 21's interactive billboard at Times Square

Forever 21′s is the epitome of interactive. Using high-tech surveillance equipment and computer vision technology, it plays on the notion of vanity (who doesn’t like to see themselves on a 61-foot screen) to form a real-time image of the crowd.

A super-sized virtual model can be seen taking a Polaroid photo of onlookers before showing it to them once developed; picking up an individual and either turning him into a frog by a kiss or dropping him into a shopping bag; or placing a magnifying glass over certain groups.

The campaign, created by interactive agency Space150, even picks up on the yellow of the Forever 21 bag, to specifically pick out those that have shopped in the store. Bearing in mind consumers look at billboards for an average of six seconds normally, this one definitely has people captured for a couple of minutes at a time – and that’s a whole year after it first launched.

Check out the video, below:

Meanwhile, American Eagle’s similarly taps into the “15 seconds of fame” idea. It’s been about for a little while longer (first trialled in November 2009), but continues to fare well. Anyone who buys something in store can opt to have both their photo and a message posted to the multiple giant screens, some 25-storeys high, outside.

It all happens within 15 minutes so there’s not too much hanging around in the meantime, but while you wait, there’s also conveniently a rotation of all the current campaign shots too.

Check out the below slideshow of examples:

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And a couple of other related things I loved…

The fashion ads from Pepsi for its new skinny can, also in Times Square:

Clinique’s digital vending machines at JFK airport:

Polyvore winners to feature on American Eagle billboard

A winning collage by lauren.y.b

The four winners of user-generated style site Polyvore’s Spring Break Style Contest are set to have their winning collages featured on the American Eagle billboard in Times Square, New York, from March 11-18.

Over 13,000 entires were submitted to the competition, a record for Polyvore. Each had to feature American Eagle merchandise.

A total of 40,000 “likes,” 3,000 comments and half a million impressions, followed.

Winners were Lauren.y.b, Kristelle Yokley, StelleM and nperu.

[Mashable]