Tavi talks at Luxury Lab Generation Next Forum, 14 May 2010

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Top 10 Fashion Brands for Gen Y Females | Source: Luxury Lab

NEW YORK, United States — As the Luxury Industry prepares to welcome Generation Y — the largest generation of new consumers since the Baby Boomers — Luxury Lab has just added one Tavi Gevinson to its speaker list for the upcoming Generation Next Forum. I last heard Tavi speak at the Independent Fashion Bloggers Evolving Influence conference during New York Fashion Week, where she had the entire room enraptured with witty comments,

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LuxuryLab’s Generation Next Forum

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NEW YORK, United States — Catching a rare bit of television last week in between updates on the Icelandic volcano and the first ever televised British Election debate, I stumbled upon an episode of Electric Dreams on the BBC, which takes an average British family from 2010 right back to the 1970’s, stripping away every bit of modern technology in their home. Then, slowly, episode by episode, decade by decade, the family gets all of its technology back, like they are experiencing it for the first time. The key difference now, of course, is that they have the hindsight of knowing what's to come in the years ahead. In the 1970’s the family gets central heating, and the 1980’s sees…

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Organizing for Digital and Social Media

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[caption id="attachment_10646" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Digital Organization | Source: LuxuryLab"][/caption] NEW YORK, United States — Last Friday, BoF attended “Organizing for Digital and Social Media: Metrics, Structure, Culture,” an event with a long name that turned out to be refreshingly succinct. The half-day session at NYU’s Stern School of Business was hosted by Professor Scott Galloway’s thinktank, LuxuryLab, and attended by brands including Burberry, Gucci and Cartier. Sarah Chubb, President of Condé Nast Digital (US), kicked off the morning, announcing that her team had just submitted a number of iPad applications to Apple in advance of the tablet’s much anticipated arrival (in the US market) later this week. “We want our brands to be wherever people want to consumer them,” said…

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BoF Recommends | The Social Graph Clinic, 29 January 2010, New York City

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[caption id="attachment_9481" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The Social Graph Clinic | Source: LuxuryLab"][/caption] NEW YORK, United States — The Business of Fashion is pleased to announce our second media partnership with LuxuryLab, following the much talked-about Luxury Lab Innovation Forum held last Autumn. On January 29th, the New York University-based think tank will hold its first Social Graph Clinic, "a one-day intensive workshop that takes an adroit and sober examination of social media's underpinnings, platforms, and best practices. The objective is to enhance participants' fluency in brand-driven social media efforts." Confirmed speakers include: • Erik Qualman, author of Socialnomics who will speak on How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business • Shenan Reid, Co-Founder and Managing Director of…

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LuxuryLab Innovation Forum

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NEW YORK, United States — On Friday, BoF attended the LuxuryLab Innovation Forum, a half-day conference hosted by Scott Galloway, associate professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business and founder of LuxuryLab, a think tank that attracted attention earlier this autumn with a report ranking luxury brands by their “Digital IQ.” Billed as TED for the luxury business with “high-velocity presentations,” the forum

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