iPod Phone

free ringtones

http://phonezoo.com

Free ringtones and make your own? Yeah it's leading edge, and undoubtedly will take off.

Fashion Show

There's a big fashion show on this Friday night December 8th. This event will take place at Courthouse Chamber Lounge at 57 Adelaide Street East. Be dazzled by the award winning Canadian designers as they showcase there fall winter 2006 / and spring summer 2007 collections.

Schedule:

Friday December 8, 2006
5:30pm to 7:00 pm cocktail reception
Time Designer
5:30 Cocktail reception
7:00pm Bustle Clothing
8:00pm Katya Revenko
9:00pm Andy the Anh
10:00pm Juma Fashions
11:30pm KOI Swimwear
12:00 - 2:00am Festive party

Go if you have that much free time. Visit the site for more info.

Don't be late for your exam

As exams approach, it is important to look at the clock to see what time it is which allows you to be on time for your exams.

This is a cool site that tells you the time, with pictures. You visit Time's other coolest sites of the year here.

http://www.humanclock.com/


















Good luck on your exams.

Ralph Lauren's Strategy

Because I own stocks in Ralph Lauren, I subscribe to RL alerts. Today, I found a post made by Suzanne, a partner at Venture Law Associates LLP. She wondered:

If a business outsources its core functions, is it still a business? This is what I pondered after spending time today on Ralph Lauren's site. You can now either buy clothes that Ralph actually designed or click through to "Create your Own Gift Collection", where you can design your own versions. Simply: (a) select the clothing item (shirt! tie! hoodie!), (b) choose your colours (Chatham Blue! Vermont Brown! Newport Navy!), (c) choose your pony or monogram, and (d) "make it your own"(add a vintage year!) Why pay a premium for the design vision of Ralph Lauren when you can pay the same premium for the design vision of, well, you?

Outsourcing design seems like an odd choice for a designer to make. I can't get my husband to select socks that match his suits; why on earth would I let him choose what horse galloped across his pectoral muscles? And why is displaying the year on a piece of clothing significant for men's fashion? Do we have to cellar some shirts for a few years before wearing them? Will they be collected like baseball cards at some point? I'm very confused....

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My understanding is that Ralph Lauren has not outsourced its core competencies at all. It is not letting computer nerds in India or laborers in China design its clothes. Or even consumers for that matter. This is not outsourcing at all.

It is called "branding" and brand participation. It's allowing customers to associate with and interact with the brand, which leads to brand identity and to loyal customers. By letting consumers interact with the brand on such deep level such as customization, RL forms relationship with the customer. By letting consumers choose, you're giving them almost exactly what they want, something good companies do. There is a great book I read on marketing a brand. Customers that feel they have a hand in creation create the best word of mouth and will advocate the brand.

In addition, RL has realized that its consumers are individuals and we live in a individualist, customizable society in which Converse allows you to build your Chucks, Google lets you customize your own start page, Toyota lets you "build" your own car, and iPod allows you to engrave your iPod. It's all about giving consumers what they want and letting them be individuals. Next to sending tailors to people's home to make them perfectly coats tailored to body and taste, this is the way to give people that individual attention that is so valued. Fashion lives because nobody wants to wear what everyone else wears. It would be wrong if a highly esteemed firm like Ralph Lauren which is on top of the latest trends to miss this wave. In fact, RL has always been good at embracing change. See: Interactive window, Ralph TV.

There is almost no danger of hurting the brand equity because consumers are limited in what they can customize. All the selections have been designed by the in house designers. It's not as if consumers can make a polo from scratch. This is no different than having a huge selection and letting customers choose the perfect one. The problem is if your husband has no fashion sense, the shirt he picks will still be ugly.

RL's core functions are designing clothes, managing, and marketing the brand. It has not abandoned design. It's still there. They've only extended the design part of some products by embracing our open source culture.

Furthermore, anything consumers do on their site can be used as cheap and effective market research. What do consumers want? RL gets that information faster than the feedback it gets from retailers and assessing what designs are successful. What colors are people choosing? What are the trends? Whatever it is, consumers are telling RL directly and almost instantaneously. This rapid and transparent information also leads to reduced costs because they can better adjust production.

Finally, it increases the market because it is able to offer a wider selection. How many times have you wanted something in red but they only had it in black and grey?

My last observation is "design" in this case is possibly nothing more than just a highly efficient way of letting consumers browse through a huge variety of clothes online.

Congratulations Andrew!

Andrew Majtenyi, one of my favorite Toronto's fashion designers has won the 2006 Globe and Mail Design Exchange Gold Award for Fashion Design.

Congratulations Andrew!

The party will take place at:
Habitat Lounge
735 Queen Street West (west of Bathurst at Tecumseth)
www.habitatlounge.com
Tel: 416-860-1551


When: Tuesday December 5th
Time: Doors open 6:00pm featuring special cash menu by reservation (optional)
Party: 7:30pm to 1:00am featuring cash bar and fabulous hor d'eurves.

ufashion members RSVP through ufashion at utoronto.ca

ufashion video

ufashion t-shirt design

ufashion is currently accepting t-shirt designs. The deadline is Dec. 8th 2007 at 5PM. Those interested in receiving the ufashion logo font to work with send a request to ufashion@utoronto.ca.

This shirt will be the first official ufashion t shirt and given to all members as of Dec. 1st 2007.

ufashion site updated!!

Great news. The ufashion website has been overhauled and now has multiple photo albums including the new and exciting Toronto Fashion Week spring 2007 collection.
http://ufashion.sa.utoronto.ca/photos.html

It also has the current ufashion officers and their contact.
http://ufashion.sa.utoronto.ca/contact.html

It includes page updates on events, projects, forum, and more.

Thank you Taige!

UFX launch

Today is the Launch of uFashion Clothing Exchange (UFX)

Sick of your same old clothes? Always want to wear your friend's jacket? Want a change? Don't want to keep buying new clothes and giving your old ones to your friend?

UFX is a place where you can upload pictures of your clothes and browse through pictures of other people's clothes and request to borrow them.

Process:
1. upload pictures of your clothes
2. find clothes you'd like to try out
3. message the person and reach an agreement. The exchange can be mutual or one way, two way, or permanent. Most agreements include a cleaning clause.
4. meet and exchange

Important: All members of UFX must be a member of uFashion or must pay a $50 security deposit to uFashion in order to protect you and members of the exchange program from getting jacked. Good members will receive their money back at the end of the term* and bad members will be reported to UofT and be blacklisted from the exchange.

If already ufashion Member simply search for UFX in facebook or click here.

*term is exactly 1 school year.

general meeting

Make comments on when you would like us to have the meeting next week.

a) [Tuesday 4PM] b) [Thursday 6PM] c) [Friday 430 PM]

Greenbelt

My name is Robert Rames and I work for CHUM Television. We are currently working on a project for the Greenbelt Foundation and are looking for entrants for a "Greenbelt" theme contest. Basically, we want to see how a wide range of talented people express themselves on camera (in 3 minutes or less) about Ontario's Greenbelt.

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Robert Rames

Production Manager

CHUM Television

416-388-8675

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THE GREEN BELT PRIZE

$10,000

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WHAT IS THE GREENBELT?

Ontario’s Greenbelt is our living countryside.

The Greenbelt surrounds the province's Golden Horseshoe, the most populated area of Canada. At 1.8 million acres it is larger than Prince Edward Island.

The Greenbelt preserves some of the best agricultural land in Canada, which in turn provides fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy, beef, pork and poultry products and grapes for prize-winning wines.

The Greenbelt ensures that everyone has access to parks, hiking trails, rivers, lakes, places for cycling, bird watching, horseback riding, weekend getaways and a myriad of other outdoor activities.

WHO CAN ENTER?

Actors, Animators, Cartoonists, Chefs, Choreographers, Comedians, Dancers, Fashion Designers, Graphic Designers, Journalists, Painters, Rappers, Sculptors, Singers, Writers…

And anybody who has anything to say about: ONTARIO’S GREENBELT

WHAT IS THE GREEN BELT PRIZE?

A competition looking for:

• the funniest…
• or the most compelling
• or the most de ive
• or the most entertaining…

• Skit…
• or cartoon
• or dance
• or comedy routine
• or clothes design or graphic design
• or article or photograph…
• or painting or sculpture
• or poem or short story…
• or song or food dish or…

HOW DOES IT WORK?

• Email us at greenbeltprize@chumtv.com to receive an entry form.
• Return the completed entry form.
• Semi-finalists will audition at CHUM Television in Toronto in November.
• Viewers will vote on the 10 finalists to determine the winner.

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ufashion Meeting

The meeting will take place Wednesday Oct. 25th at 5:30-7:30. It will just be an update of the progress we're making. Volunteer opportunities to help out with our activities. Chance to become a member. Then we'll go socialize by shopping as a group at Eaton Centre, followed by dinner.

Time: Wednesday Oct. 25th at 5:30-7:30
Place: Starbucks at College and St. George

site up

ufashion site is back up

Diesel Heaven

Diesel has come out with a cool new site. I don't see the point but it's interactive and very creative.

http://www.diesel.com/campaigns/aw06/

site down

ufashion site is down because UT is upgrading its servers. booooh.

In the meantime, Enjoy my fashion week pictures.

ufashion site down

the ufashion site is down for some reason. it seems all the site from sa.utoronto.ca are down.

UoT's Next Top Model info jist:

The competition will involve creating outfits to suit different scenarios.

Send us your bio, resume, pictures, and info about your program, year, and fashion aspirations.

To ufashion@utoronto.ca

Amazing Night

The opening night of Toronto Fashion Week was amazing, and leaves one wanting more. After a tease from over 25 designers' lastest works, audiences witnessed Marie Sainte Pierre's Spring 2007 Collection.

It was quite an experience talking my way into the show without a pass, and then borrowing 2 industry passes to get 2 ufashion people in because Education Passes don't work for invite only events and opening night. I met a couple of interesting people, but no designers since today was only a teaser with only one actual show.

No need to explain the collection when I have crisp pictures to tell the story.

BTW join this group: http://utoronto.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2201679399

Fashion Show Outing

Tonight is Toronto Fashion Week's Opening night.

8:00 pm - Fragmented Time L'Oreal Spring Beauty Trends 2007
...featuring more than 25 designers from across Canada including Andy The-Anh, Aqua Lara, Arthur, Arthur Mendonca, Body Bag, De Majuscule, Eliane, Envers, Iris, Izzy Camilleri, Justina McCaffrey, Mac & Jac, Marie Saint Pierre, Musi Fur, Nadya Toto, Northbound Leather, Nuts, Pat McDonagh, Perplex & Lola, Ray W, Report Collection, Shan, Simon Chang, Thien Le, Waxman Accessories Provided by Christopher Kon, Colette Harmon, John Fluevog, Lydia Lukidis, Mondor, and Shona Rae
9:30 pm - Marie Saint Pierre
10:00-4:00 am - L'Oreal Fashion Week Opening Night Party - Honoring our Modeling Agencies, "Special Presentation" by Boutique Le Trou

Those Attending should contact Taige at to meet up with fellow ufashion members.


And for those members attending Tuesday's fashion show AND Juma's free show (by invite):

4:00 pm - Arthur Mendonca
5:00 pm - Dean Horn
5:30 pm - Katya Revenko
6:00 pm - Juma
7:00 pm - David Dixon Cocktail
8:00 pm - David Dixon
9:00 pm - French Connection (UK)
10:00 pm - Arthur Mendonca After Party (Offsite) CLounge

Contact Lisa at to meet up with fellow ufashion members.

UofT's Next Top Model Walkoff

uFashion is looking for aspiring models and fashion minded individuals to participate in UofT's Next Top Model Walkoff on Dec. 1.

You will be given three scenarios (eg. a night in Paris, ball room party, space, etc.) to prepare for to suit each scenario from your home wardrobe before hand. On the fun and exciting night, three finalists will be chosen out of ten models based on style, creativity, and poise. Finalists will create and present two outfits from one lucky local designer's collection on the spot and walk. The audience will decide who is UofT’s Next. Top. Model.

Beside the glory, the winners can choose from a wide array of prizes including a professional photo shoot, a meeting with a modeling agent, full salon treatment, and clothing store gift cards.

To participate: e-mail us at ufashion@utoronto.ca with your name, resume/bio, photo, and tell us why you are interested. You don’t need experience in modeling! But you do have to be a fun-loving female with something to prove.

Deadline: October 24th, 2006.

Purse Addiction

This reminds me of some girls and Jason Song. It's a humorous listen. Check it out.

A new addiction is afflicting millions of American men and women, ruining credit and destroying marriages. Humorist Brian Unger discusses the untold misery of the need to collect expensive handbags.

By Brian Unger

Scientists Analyze Fashion

Some research has shed light on when people tend to dress more fashionably, at least for women. Scientists from UCLA conducted research on young college women who were photographed in their most and least fertile period, and then had a panel of men assess those photographs with the face blacked out. Turns out they're flashy when they're most fertile.

Fertile women dress to impress?
Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:21 AM ET

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women dress to impress when they are at their most fertile, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday in a study they say shows that signs of human ovulation may not be as mysterious as some scientists believe.

A study of young college women showed they frequently wore more fashionable or flashier clothing and jewelry when they were ovulating, as assessed by a panel of men and women looking at their photographs.

"They tend to put on skirts instead of pants, show more skin and generally dress more fashionably," said Martie Haselton, a communication studies and psychology expert at the University of California Los Angeles who led the study.

Writing in the journal Hormones and Behavior, Haselton and colleagues said their findings disproved the conventional wisdom that women are unique among animals in concealing, even from themselves, when they are most fertile.

Some animals release powerful scents when ready to mate, while others display skin color changes, but human ovulation is notoriously difficult to detect. This is attested to by the frequency of unintended pregnancy, as well as test kits marketed to women wishing to become pregnant but unaware of the likeliest time to conceive.

Haselton's team said their study showed the cues are there, even if men and women are not consciously aware of them.

Women usually ovulate on the 15th day of their menstrual cycles, and this day is when they are the most fertile. Ovulation is easily detected using urine tests, and Haselton's team used such a test to check fertility in their study.

They asked 30 university students to come to their lab for a test, without letting them know the nature of the experiment. "We asked them some things about food, for example," Haselton said in a telephone interview.

The women came back several times over the course of a month and were photographed twice -- once in their fertile phase and another time in their least-fertile phase. The faces in the photographs were blacked out.

WHO LOOKS HOT?

The researchers asked 42 men and women, some older than the volunteers, to assess these photographs by asking, "In what photo is the person trying to look more attractive?"

The judges chose the photograph taken during the women's fertile phases 60 percent of the time, Haselton said. "This is well beyond chance. They were pretty consistent," she said.

"One of the things we found pretty interesting is that people sort of have their personal style, almost like their uniform," she added. "The women would show up to the lab wearing something pretty close to what they wore before, but embellished."

For example, one woman wore loose knit leggings and a tank top in both photos. "In her high fertility photograph, she would be wearing a very pretty tank top and she was wearing more jewelry. The difference was quite subtle," Haselton said.

The fertile women did not necessarily dress more provocatively, Haselton noted. "We did see a little bit more skin. It was my impression that the women were just dressing a little bit more fashionably but not sexier."

Haselton also was interested to note what did not happen.

"There's a popular notion that when women approach menstrual onset, they get out their bloated clothes and they pull out their sweats," she said. "But we didn't find that to be the case."

Haselton's team had earlier reported that women were more likely to flirt and look at attractive men when ovulating.

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ufashion backgrounds

ufashion has released several desktop backgrounds for members and interested parties to enjoy.

They can be found here: http://ufashion.sa.utoronto.ca/backgrounds.html

RL TV

Ralph Lauren has his own TV channel online. I checked it out and decided it was pretty neat. There's celebrity interviews, fashion shows, model tv, style, etc.

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ufashion Thank You

Remember on the website it said "[officers] will be tactfully rewarded" and you puzzled about it?

I'm here to unveil the ufashion reward system. At the end of the year, we will make a profit. A percentage of this profit will be put into the returned earnings which means they will be re-invested into ufashion. Another percent will be spent on rewards for the work you dedicated officers put in. Maybe 25%. The rewards will be based on merit.

So just know if you are dedicated, you will receive a little thank you.

For example this is what my book would look like if we ended the year now:

Taige: XXX(for website--hot dang it was hard), X(for clubs day member recruitment + officer recruitment),
Lisa: .75X(for fashion week tix)
Clara: .25X(for fashion week tix)
Jason: .5X(for threads tix sales)
Shams: .25X(for clubs day member recruitment)
Kelvin: .1X(for clubs day), .5(group shopping)
Inja: .5(group shopping)
Glenn: .000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001X(for NYC trip project)

Don't worry about subjectivity. Just be happy that you'll get a thank you gift. Don't worry if you don't have any stars now, just work harder, and be more involved.

PS. UT's Next Top Model Walkoff will involve about 15 stars to distribute if it is a big success.

Urban Exotic Review

Four designers - Melanie McNeill, Nyree Vogan, Philip Sparks, Katya Revenko
and Jason Myers - took the audience by storm with their polished creations
at the Argonaut Rowing Club's gorgeous Henley Room with views overlooking
Lake Ontario.

Many agreed that these talents are the ones to watch; especially if you are
looking to revitalize your fall wardrobe. Their designs spanned the whole
spectrum from trendy elegance to sheer classic couture.

Already known as the prime spot for new modeling talent, the show also gave
new models a chance to work the runway in a professional and beautiful
environment.

Take it easy Movie Friday

If you want to take it easy this Friday, join ufashion in watching The Devil Wears Prada.

It's this Friday 730PM at WO ( 321 Bloor Street West) . (we don't know the precise room yet.)

If lost when there, call Activity leader: Taige 6478860760 when you get there.

Fashion Week Tixs

We have 30 tickets as of now. We'll pick them up on Oct.10th, after Thanksgiving.

They will be distributed that week. A reservation does NOT mean you will get a ticket. If you only reserved, make sure you come on time when we distributed it so you can pay or those tickets will be gone.

Please be patient. A email will be sent with details on the ticket distrubtion time&place.

A few pics from Threads2006

yeah. it was fun. other people have other pics. that's all i got.

Fashion Internship Opportunity!

Love fashion?
Interested in the industry?
Think it might lead to a wicked career oneday?
Here's your chance to get your foot in the door of one of the fastest paced, most dynamic industries around!

The Chase Group inc. is an Apparel distribution & marketing agency operating out of Toronto Ontario Canada. Since 1994, the Chase Group has been an integral part of the Canadian urban apparel market, specializing in urban branded apparel.
RIGHT NOW The Chase Group is looking for a creative, independent, motivated student to fill an internship position!

This is your chance!

This fashion internship is an enriching opportunity to get exposed to the various aspects of the fashion/design/sales industry and see first hand what goes into producing, designing, marketing, selling, and building a fashion brand.

Tasks include, but are not limited to:

• database entry
• daily communication/liaising with customers/clients/retail stores
• order entry and production tracking
• event planning and execution
• public relations
• showroom upkeep
• construction & production of garment
• fittings of garment
• graphic designing
• other assigned projects

The candidate best suited for this position will be:
. independent
. flexible
. resourceful
. assertive/ takes initiative
. detail oriented
AND have a high level of creativity with an entrepreneurial spirit.


If you are interested and wish to participate in this internship opportunity, please e-mail your resume to info@thechasegroup.ca

L'Oréal Fashion Week

As you all know, the L'Oréal Fashion Week (sponsored by the Fashion
Design Council of Canada) is coming in the week of October 16-21,
2006. This is one of the most significant Fashion events of the year;
you won't want to miss out.

***we have very limited number of tickets, so it's first come first serve***

The tickets will go on sale this week:

Date: Tursday & Friday (Sept. 28-29th, 2006)
Time: 11am - 3pm
Location: Sidney Smith Hall Lobby (SS)
Price: $10 (members only), $20 (non-members)


See you all there.


Lisa Meng
VP Events
ufashion@utoronto.ca,
lisameng6@utoronto.ca

Threads 2006 Info

This is a message from jasongg regarding Threads 2006.

Thanks to all those who replied in interest to Threads 2006 Fashion Show. If you have not replied to the offer and are still interested in joining us for this annual event, you can still contant me on my email (de_la_trend@hotmail.com) or hit me up on my cell 416-889-6346.

Here is the general break down of the event that you might need to attend on a timely manner.

Website: http://www.plan-e.ca/threads2006/
Date: Thursday, September 28th, 2006
Ticket Price: $15 (we got a $5 d/c from the event - thank you Taiger - from the original $20) - this is only applicable if you reply to the offer in advance (contact me)
Location: Revival Bar (College and Shaw), 783 College St. West @ Shaw. Refer to the map below.
Duration: 8pm-2am

• 7:00 - 8:00pm - Reception (VIP guests + media only)
• 8:00pm - Doors will open for General Admission ticket holders
• 9:00 - 11:00pm - Threads Fashion Show
• 11:00pm - 2:00am - After-Party (FREE Admission)

*** Please note that admittance will be restricted for the duration of the show. Be sure to be there before 9:00pm ***

Regarding the pick-up and payment for the tickets. We are scheduled to purchase the tickets this coming Monday, and I will be distributing them throughout the week until the date of the event. Please contact me (by either cell or email) to schedule a pick-up.

Like always, hit me up if you have any questions about anything, and I'll get back to you ASAP

Hope to see you all soon :D

HOTS

ufashion site has been updated with info about HOTS.

hairstyle of the semester (HOTS)

We thrive on change and creativity. One of the best ways to do that is to get a hair cut. Radically change your hairstyle. Change the way people see you and judge you. Disturb their notion of who you are. Change how you see yourself.

One of our activities in ufashion involves letting other members decide your next hair style for one semester. It doesn't matter. In fashion or out. Black or green. It doesn't matter. Just Δ it.

Starting September 23.

ufashion ringtone

Got it as fanmail.

download

group shopping

We're going group shopping!

Objective: To get to know each other, talk about fashion and trends,
get your fall wardrobe ready, and have fun.
Time: Sept. 22 (Friday) from 3:30-5:30
Where to meet: Meet at Bata Shoe Museum at 3:30
What to bring: friends, money, credit card

Schedule: We will start at Club Monaco. 5:30 Dinner (optional). We
should be done no later than 6:30.

Oh! Everyone who has signed up for ufashion can pay your fees there.

e-mail back if you're coming.

cool people use it

http://www.netvibes.com/

Netvibes, one of the sites I picked for B2.0's Web 2.0 Around the World map, just got additional funding of $15 million from Index Ventures (which backed Skype), and others. The Paris-based site boasts more than five million users.

Netvibes is one of the best mashup sites out there. It lets you create your own customized homepage, pulling in e-mail from Google or Yahoo, blog posts and news feeds from all over the Web, Flickr photo feeds, and del.icio.us links. Basically anything with with an RSS feed can be pulled into Netvibes, allowing you to centralize the Web in one place. It is built on Ajax software (which lets you drag and drop all the little modules around on your Web browser). Check it out.

A site about fashion with a 30 day shelf life.

Taryn Manning: "I have this great hat I bought in Japan that keeps me up at night. I wake up wanting to know where it is."

This is month-long fête bringing you 30 days of stylish events, 30 days of fashion blogs, 30 days of daily giveaways, and 30 days of exuberance that will have New York buzzing, we identified people of style who, through their personal statement and strong sense of self, best embody the spirit of our publications.


http://www.30daysoffashion.com/

1st general meeting

Time: Thursday 14th @ 630PM
Place: Starbucks at St. George and College.

Bring money and friends.

Party: new magazine launch!

ufashion members are invited to a party. We're attending the birth of BOBBi Magazine, Canada's newest magazine for girls.


Date: this Thursday September 14th @10PM
Meeting Place: This is London
Address: 364 Richmond West Street


Activity leader: Call Kelvin Li when you get there!
Cellphone #: (647) 686-5805

NYC Christmas Shopping Trip

Suggest the date for this event.

fashionweek ads

it's in October

internship ops

INTERNSHIP

An exciting internship opportunity has recently become available at The Fashion Design Council of Canada.

Details

Interested applicants should forward their resumé with cover letter to:

Carolyn Quinn
Fashion Design Council of Canada
Address: 15 Saskatchewan Road, Exhibition Place, Toronto, ON M6K 3C3
Fax: 416.922.4292
Email: carolyn@fdcc.ca

Monday ufashion wannabe officers meeting.

Noon @ Bloor and St. George in L'expresso. Make a comment if you’re coming or when would be a better time for you on Monday.


ufashion is a student group that has aspirations to be one of the elite UT clubs that is affluent and self sustaining. As there were less than 15 active members last year, positions will be assigned by current UFAT members. Don’t be daunted by the role of your desire position because you will have the support of other executives. However, make certain you meet the qualifications.

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Open UFAT Positions

Ministry of Activities

President—oversee, initiate, plan, and lead events
e.g. create and direct ufashion activities, put on walk off, put on fashion show
Qualifications: experience in putting on events, stress tolerant, party goer, disciplined and can get things done, passionate and self motivated, friends with Events VP and Activities VP.

Events VP—coordinate and lead events
e.g. take care of members during fashion shows trips, coordinating parties, working to put on ufashion events such as walk off
Qualifications: possesses organization skills, hardworking, dependable, and passionate.

Activities VP—coordinate and lead activities
e.g. taking member on group shopping trips, running HOTS (Hairstyle of the semester), working to put on ufashion events such as walk off
Qualifications: possesses organization skills, creative, hardworking, dependable, passionate.


Ministry of Members
President—oversee member happiness, contribute to events
e.g. keeping members happy, obtaining member opinions, recruit new members, help with events
Qualifications: leadership, customer service, and people skills. Dependable and strongly believes in ufashion.

Ministry of Communications
President—act as secretary for ufashion, director of club image, communicate to members and externally, acquire sponsorship and donations.
e.g. responding to emails, networking with important contacts, crafting ufashion’s image, help with recruiting members
Qualifications: has experience and education in marketing, brand management skills, strongly identify with ufashion, creative, dependable.

VP of ufashion online—manage and update ufashion sites.
Qualification: design oriented and aesthetic, tech skills

Ministry of Products
President—position opens in May.
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All presidents and VPs should be willing to work by his or herself and in groups during and outside of meetings. They should be in constant contact with one another, and are expected work closely with one another. Positions are one year terms.

Reminders

Remember membership fee until September 23 is only $20 when you join with a friend. That’s 10 pounds, and you can’t buy anything with 10 pounds in London.

If you signed up but didn’t receive an email, it means your handwriting couldn’t be heuristically discerned. There are 39 of you. To get on the mailing list, send a email to us.

Other roles include

Other roles include

Model

Designer

Chorographer

Photographer

Writer/blogger

Technician

Introduction

Hi and welcome to ufashion's blog. This will be used as a way for members to be kept up to date and interact with each other over the internet. (anyone can make comments).

This is the first year we're recruiting members and there are many positions open. We expect this to be great year. We are seeking a diverse group of people from various programs, but united under fashion.

Please go to our official website for our group details:

http://ufashion.sa.utoronto.ca/welcome.html



on another note. ufashion is on facebook. so is the fictitious ugo.

volunteer

Volunteer models needed for Toronto Alternative Fashion Week flash fashion shows that will take place around Toronto (Oct. 17-19, 2006)

Make-up, hair, clothes will be provided.

Contact Phil at azmatic19@hotmail.com

Threads 2006 is an annual charitable fashion show being held on September 28th, 2006 from 8 p.m.- 2 a.m. We are currently looking for dressers, greeters, stage hands and an assistant choreographer. If interested, they can email me at elina@plan-e.ca. The deadline to apply is September 10th.

For more information about the show, please visit our website at www.plan-e.ca/threads2006.

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Calendar of events

Calendar of Events 2006-2007

September 2006

UFAT activities: fundraising, member recruitment, calendar production

Member events: group shopping trip, style of the semester

October

UFAT activities: calendar marketing, ufashion walk off, fundraising

Member events: fashion show attendance,

November

UFAT activities: ufashion postcard contest

Member events: fashion show attendance, ufashion walk off

December

UFAT activities: ufashion postcard contest

Member events: fashion show attendance, group shopping trip,

January 2007

UFAT activities: ufashion postcard contest

Member events: ufashion postcard contest, style of the semester

February

UFAT activities: ufashion postcard contest and production

Member events: ufashion postcard contest

March

UFAT activities: postcard marketing, create fashion show with CASS

Member events: fashion show attendance,

April

UFAT activities: launch ufashion line,

Member events: closing party, fashion show with CASS

May

UFAT activities: ufashion product line

Member events: NA

June

UFAT activities: ufashion line

Member events: NA

*note: UFAT stands for ufashion activities team which inlcudes officers and active members

Nokia's L'Amour Collection

For some, everything is a potential fashion statement, even a cell phone.

The chic new additions to Nokia's L'Amour Collection are speaking to these people in particular. The phones, which will begin shipping in the fall, should allow consumers just enough time to coordinate them with their winter wardrobes.

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CLUBS Day

New College Club's day is Tuesday, September 5, 2006 from 8:30 - 11:30.

SAC Clubs day is Fri. Sept 8. 8: 10-2:30

We'll be meeting on Sept 4th to create our first clubs day presentations ever! If you want to help us recruit new members and get to know the other members, come!

Sept 4th 6:36PM at my place 222 Beverley St (College&St. George intersection)

It'd be good if some of you could bring food or snacks cuz I know I'll be running out of pizza pops. And also stuff to create posters with. And laptops to design flyers with. We'll go to print on flyers Tuesday.

Come.

Calling

Hi uf members,

It's great school is starting again. And summer's not even over. We invite all interested students and members to come to our first meeting for the year where we will decide on many of the activites and events for the year.

It's on Aug. 31. The location is TBA.

we're is out of school

ufashion will be back in mid August.

It's on! Let's encourage fashion at UofT.

It's on! Let's encourage fashion at UofT.

Topic/title: Seminar with Canadian Designers on Current Fashion in Canada
Speakers: Jamil Juma (Juma:http://www.juma.ca/), and Sunny Fong (Vawk: http://www.vawkline.com/)
Place: Bahen Centre at 40 st.george st, BA1200
Time: Apirl 7th, Friday @ 6:30-9PM.
Price: 3 dollars [free for members

I got word of this happpening at UT and looks interesting.

"ELEMENTAL"
The Vic Environmental Day Fashion Show
Are you worried about the environment and wanna do something to help?
Do you like fashion shows, showcasing a WIDE variety of professional and student designs?

Come to ELEMENTAL, this Tuesday, April 4th in the Cat's Eye. The show
starts at 8:30!!
http://utern.sa.utoronto.ca

Hairstyle of the Semester only free and yearly

You guys know about hairstyle of the seminar program we got? We'll this semester it's free cuz... as luck goes Michael O'Rourke and his team will be in Toronto presenting the last trends to industry professionals.

You'll basically get a hair makeover, gift bag, and get to present it to some people. Sign up Wednes. 29th 1:30 - 5:30 PM at WO, or Thursday 30th 4-7PM 2510 Yonge Str. Suite 325.

for more go to www.sexyhair.com
416-929-6897

Andrew Majtenji Fall/Winter 2006 Collection

Andrew Majtenji Fall/Winter 2006 Collection Featuring Collaborative works by filmmaker Elvis Padvorac, Bags By Guy Latullipe and Jewelry By Rita Tessolin.
Runway show will be taken place on Friday March 24, 2005. Doors open at 6pm and the show will start at 8:15pm. Location is at Design Exchange at 234 Bay Street between King Street West and Wellington Street West.

ugo!

Hey ufers,

Add ugo as your friend so you can browse the pictures from fashion shows we attended!

http://utoronto.facebook.com/photos.php?id=28115938

Meeting

Hi. Our next meeting will be from 3-5PM Tuesday 28th in Pratt Library's study room. Please comment if you are coming or want to meet another time.

The issues are Awareness and UFET.

videos

Video sharing has become more popular than hot dogs these days. And I'm very excited to see it sort itself out:

March 13, 2006

Online Auteurs Hardly Need to Be Famous

By RICHARD SIKLOS

Corrections Appended

On his computer screen, Jake R. Sanowski scrutinizes a short video of a baby eating its first pickle. Next is a skit of a woman getting drunker over the course of a meal at which, it turns out, her dining companion is a dog. That is followed by a clip of a band playing a song, but the lighting is so dim that the screen is nearly black. "I feel really bad for it," Mr. Sanowski said.

Mr. Sanowski, 24, who recently moved to Los Angeles from Minnesota, is an editor at iFilm, a company that displays short-form videos, movie trailers and music videos on its Web site (www.iFilm.com) He wades through many of the nearly 500 video submissions that the site receives each day from average Joes and Janes seeking fame — and now cash and prizes — via the Internet.

Many of the contributors are happy just to have their clips posted on the site for all to see. But the number of postings has jumped in the last few weeks since the company introduced a contest with the cable channel VH1 called "Show Us Your Junk" that will feature the best submissions on the television program "WebJunk20" and reward winners with digital gadgetry and flat-screen TV's.

Increasingly, the new, new thing in media is getting paid for the homemade. Reflecting the surge in the popularity of user-created material, both online and traditional media companies are opening their wallets to make sure that the best of it finds its way onto their television shows and Web sites.

Even Yahoo, the nation's most-visited Web site, has signaled a change in its strategy by moving away from creating its own professional content in favor of user-generated material — and it appears willing to pay for anything its users deem worthy.

All this is part of a trend seeking to turn conventional media business models on their heads in the digital age. Typically, media content was either paid for by consumers in the form of subscription fees or by marketers through advertising. In offering to pay users for creating content, companies like Yahoo are not looking to turn every amateur into a professional so much as acknowledging the growing appeal of homemade material to audiences and hence its value to media businesses.

"At some point in the next six to nine months, this will become competitive," said Michael Hirschorn, executive vice president for original programming at VH1, which, like iFilm, is owned by Viacom.

Already the money is starting to flow, mostly in the form of contests. YouTube.com, another Web site for sharing clips, is soliciting people to create a music video for a band from Seattle called Pretty Girls Make Graves. Aspiring auteurs can download the band's song "Nocturnal House," create a video and submit it; the winner gets $1,000 and a trip to New York to hang out with the band.

A similar Web site, Metacafe, is offering $2,000 for the best short video shot at Mardi Gras, as determined from the feedback of people coming to the site to watch them.

On Current, a cable television channel spearheaded by former Vice President Al Gore that began operating in August, short videos are selected for broadcast by the votes of an Internet audience; successful entrants are paid $250 to $1,000 apiece.

Several networks have shows in the works featuring both found and original online material, including pilots from Bravo and NBC, the latter's starring the television host Carson Daly.

The USA Network, which is also part of NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric, is developing a pilot for a user-generated show based on another popular site, eBaum's World. In October, the Web site, named after its founder, Eric Bauman, began offering monthly prizes up to $1,000 for the best submissions, which can be jokes, audio files, flash animation or homemade video games as well as clips.

There is no scarcity of material as high-speed connections grow, cellphone cameras proliferate and more people become adept at editing video and creating flash animation. But user-generated content is much more. Think of it as anything not professionally conceived: it could be blogs or short videos, a salsa recipe on a bulletin board, a Web page created for a school class, a book review on Amazon.com or a withering comment posted on a magazine's Web site. According to a study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project released in January, half of all teenagers in the United States have created material for the Web.

Of course, much of what finds its way onto Web sites is not ready for prime time or can seem like "America's Funniest Home Videos" with cybergloss. Mr. Sanowski and his colleagues at iFilm, for instance, marvel at the number of recent video creations that consist of young men dancing and lip-syncing music.

Still, user-created material increasingly competes for the audiences of traditional media companies and holds some appealing qualities as a business model. For one thing, it is cheap. And it taps into the social aspect of interactive media that has fueled the advance of the Internet.

It also represents an attempt to improve the quality of material online as people's desire to not only surf the Internet but also contribute to it rises at a breakneck pace. For example, the research firm Technorati estimates that in January there were 27 million blogs, and that number is doubling every 5.5 months, with 75,000 blogs created daily.

The notion of money flowing to people who generate the best material has been gathering steam. Google, the Web search leader, and Yahoo already run services that automatically place advertisements on other Web sites — allowing people who create their own Web pages and blogs to share in the growth of online advertising revenue without ever making a sales call.

Now Yahoo plans to begin offering cash prizes to people who generate the highest-rated responses to other people's questions on a Web service it introduced in December, Yahoo Answers. "Get rewarded for your best answers with cash," Yahoo Answers promised in a notice on the site that the company took down last week after three months because it had not decided just how the payments would work or when they would begin.

The head of Yahoo's programming operations said early this month that company was retreating from a strategy of creating original content for its sites in favor of attracting and highlighting the best user-generated content.

Jerry Yang, a Yahoo co-founder, said in an interview recently: "I think ultimately we're trying to field a community where people feel comfortable and productive, and that with every investment on Yahoo, they're getting more back. How we reward, and how we implement that, I think, is still very early."

Although it is a relatively new phenomenon, the spread of financial incentives should not come as a shock in an industry whose biggest players have been given valuations in the many billions of dollars by Wall Street. Microsoft, for instance, is offering cash and prizes in a contest intended to get people to use its MSN search service over those of Google and Yahoo.

One question is whether the use of financial incentives will put a damper on the spirit of unfettered self-expression and generosity that has infused much of the growth of user-created material. "Right now, people are doing all sorts of things on the Internet for the good of the community — it's like volunteering," said Dan Ariely, a professor at the M.I.T. Media Lab. "The question is, In what ways will it change the willingness of people to help? In this way I actually worry."

On the Web site eBaum's World, the winner of the latest $1,000 prize is a faux trailer for the 1995 horror movie "Seven," starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. With the addition of schmaltzy music and a voice-over narrator, the movie is re-edited to look like a buddy movie turned love story between the two actors.

"I'm positively absolutely amazed at some of the things that people will do for $1,000," said Neil Bauman, who is chief financial officer for the Web site that his son Eric, now 25, founded as a junior in high school.

In its infancy, at least, it seems that financial gain is likely to be seen as a bonus, but not the main reason for creating content. For example, Anirudh Koul, 20, a computer science student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is among the highest-rated participants in Yahoo Answers. The Web site is a competitor to sites like Google Answers and About.com (owned by The New York Times Company), where people can access information from experts in specific fields, rather than just cull the most relevant results from a broad search.

The best answers are given rating points by people who visit the Web site, and it is here that Mr. Koul has answered more than 1,100 questions since the site began operating in December, including "Who did invent the Internet?" and "Can I download episodes of 'Kitchen Confidential?' " For now, Mr. Koul says, he enjoys interacting with others from his dormitory room and being recognized as the smartest guy in a digital room. "The only incentive one gets is the satisfaction in sharing some useful knowledge," he said in an e-mail message.

But since Yahoo makes money either by directly putting ads on its sites or indirectly by keeping Web surfers in its network, it is willing to share the spoils with people like Mr. Koul, just as it might pay an entertainment company for access to its content.

The idea of pay for content has been around in a small way for years in publishing; for instance, those who take part in surveys for the Zagat restaurant review books receive a free book. Robert J. Markey, a consultant specializing in consumer loyalty at Bain & Company, said that companies like Yahoo must be careful not to let financial incentives become the only reason for people to contribute material.

"If it's just about some ancillary reward," he said, "you're introducing an externality that degrades the value of the community itself. It undermines that whole model."

But while user-generated content can attract lots of attention, so far it has not been regarded as a winning format for major advertisers. A prominent example of this is the Web site Myspace.com, which was purchased by the News Corporation last year. While MySpace is adding as many as a million registered users each week who create or peruse Web pages of other members, sharing photos, blogs and such, it has so far attracted little advertising revenue relative to its audience size.

Viacom's chief executive, Tom Freston, while promising to expand its ventures in such social networking, said recently, "It's like inserting the advertising into a conversation between two people, and there are still a lot of questions about advertisers supporting user-created content."

Chris Charron, an analyst at Forrester Research, said people should not be left with the impression that they can make small fortunes sitting in their underwear at home surfing the Web.

"Many users who hope to make a lot of money creating content will probably be disappointed," Mr. Charron said. "All content is not created equally."

Correction: March 15, 2006 An article in Business Day on Monday about media companies that pay to use videos and other material created by their audiences misstated the amount paid for each piece of work by the cable channel Current TV. Since January, the amount has ranged from $500 to $1,000, not $250 to $1,000. Correction: March 17, 2006 An article in Business Day on Monday about media companies that pay to use videos and other material created by their customers misspelled the surname of an editor for the Web site iFilm, which accepts submissions. He is Jake R. Sarnowski, not Sanowski.

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