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Mashable.com: How Social Shopping Is Changing Fashion Production

Posted by Valerie Jennings, CEO of Jennings Social Media Marketing

The fashion industry is one of the biggest social media marketing opportunities. I want to share this article by Mashable.com regarding the fashion industry’s growth via social media marketing!

Jenningsfashion article Mashable.com: How Social Shopping Is Changing Fashion Production

Fashion editors and department store buyers have long had the biggest say in what parts of designer collections make it to market. This pattern is changing, however, thanks to a more social web culture and better tools to facilitate online voting, purchasing and even customization.

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Treehugger.com Releases the Best of Green 2010 Readers’ Choice Awards: Fashion & Beauty Nominees:

By: Billy Griffin

I would like to share a contest further proving that social media greatly influences the sustainable fashion industry and advocates the green movement.

green 300x196 Treehugger.com Releases the Best of Green 2010 Readers’ Choice Awards: Fashion & Beauty Nominees:
Treehugger.com, one of the largest websites in the world and the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream, releases the nominees for the Best of Green 2010 Readers’ Choice Awards. Treehugger’s editors and writers put their heads together to name more than 170 winners across eight topics, naming the people, places, products, companies, and ideas that are pushing the green movement forward. Now, Treehugger.com invites readers to pick the cream of the crop. Through April 2, readers can vote in more than 40 prize categories across our eight main topics. The Readers’ Choice winners will be announced the week of April 12.
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How Social Media Impacts Fashion Industry

by Billy Griffin

The fashion industry is ever changing, each season spawning different trends, fads and faux paus. Social media is now putting a new spin on the already rapidly moving industry.

Until recently, the only consumer-industry interaction has been at the checkout counter or rare red carpet event. With social media booming, we see a new breed of consumer. Taking to the blogs, vlogs and tweets, consumers voice their various trend-tips, style-suggestions and fashion-feedback.

Social media offers fashion brand-loyalists a place to network with each other as well as with the industry itself. No longer does the industry have to depend on alternate trend-spotting sources and risky production decisions, they have a free real-time source of certainty through social media content. Social media now links the consumer directly to the industry.

How will this further change the industry? Due to the rapid response capability of consumers, one can predict an even faster rate of market changes. In the fashion industry, they say one minute you’re hot, the next you’re not. Now, thanks to social media, hot just became cold as consumers trend-in and trend-out through social media content. The fashion industry will now need to adapt to an already ever-changing market.
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