Fashion PR Resource: International Fashion Calender TribaSpace

Alessia Fabiani, Milan Fashion Week. Photo by Rosella Carrara & Giovanni Camardella

The TribaSpace International Fashion Calendar is a free web calendar application for the fashion industry, currently in beta.  Based in Berlin, the mission  is to alleviate the stress of daily communication within the fashion industry, and to open doors for young designers, buyers, and media.

Fashion PR pros, designers and fashion bloggers can use TribaSpace to submit/browse upcoming events, discover new designers, and source press contacts quickly. For bloggers specifically, the handy “My Organizer” function makes it simply to plan an editorial calendar by choosing events of interest, then importing them to iCal or Outlook.

Check out their blog as well for fashion business and as well for fashion business and technology updates.

Fashion PR: Sponsor First LA Fashion Blogger Picnic

Picnic by Stas Moshkov

Back in March, Los Angeles-based fashion blogger Kelsi Smith (Dedicated Follower of Fashion) threw the first ever fashion week party exclusively for Los Angeles Fashion Bloggers. Over 50 bloggers attended and many had to be turned away due to guest list restrictions! The bloggers tweeted up a storm, and many of the brands involved received multiple mentions across the blogs of the attendees.

As a result, Kelsi started Two Point Oh LA, a social networking community for Los Angeles Fashion Bloggers. The official launch party takes place on July 17th, 2010 with an annual Summer Picnic and it promises to blow the first event out of the water!

This is a great opportunity to pay it forward to fashion bloggers in the Los Angeles area while getting great brand exposure.

Here are the sponsorship options:

Gift bag Sponsorship:

  • We have 60 gift bags to fill for female attendees, 30 for male attendees and 30 for children attendees.  Gift bag sponsors will be listed on all marketing materials as sponsors.

Basic Sponsorship: $200

  • Logo listed on all marketing/promotional materials, including the invite.

Premier Sponsorship: $300

  • Business or brand listed as a premier sponsor for the Two Point Oh LA 1st Annual Picnic. Logo listed on all marketing/promotional materials, including the invite as well as inclusion of your marketing materials in all of the gift bags and, where possible, at the event itself.

Sponsors must be registered by July 2nd and products (where applicable) must be received by July 12th.

Get in touch with Kelsi at kelsi[at]stylesmithonline.com

Top Fashion PR/Social Media Marketing Links 6/25/10

Fashion PR LinksBoF interviews Jonathan Newhouse, Chairman of Condé Nast International on the future of fashion media (via Business of Fashion)

  • The role of the media is to be the dream weaver, to animate [luxury] products and to make them desirable. We in the media employ creativity and taste, imagery and words, and a trusted relationship with readers – your customers – to drive your business.

The Online Fashion Agency releases the Online Fashion 100 (via Leon Bailey-Green)

  • People behind Britian’s top fashion websites

5 Things You Should Know About The Media (via PR in your Pajamas)

  • Journalists are interested in what is new or controversial - most of you won’t have earth-shattering news, but the media want to feel like they are giving people the latest information on solving a particular problem. If there is a controversy brewing in the media, how can you tie-in your business to what is ‘hot’?

My Mothers Clothes Book Trailer (via Ruby Press)

  • For Jeannette Montgomery Barron, nearly every item in her mother’s carefully curated collection is attached to a day, a season, a voice, a laugh, a moment, a memory. Here in these pages, she takes them off the racks and out of the drawers to preserve her mother’s legacy, in a final, joyful performance. One that reminds us all, of how defined we are by the precious things we carry.

Teen Fashion Bloggers to Watch (via YPulse)

  • Blogs have given fashion-loving teen girls a platform for expressing themselves beyond the walls of their high schools. These girls dress to impress, not their classmates, but themselves (and secondarily, their readers).

Global fashion sustainability trends (via Green Design)

  • The biggest reason the sustainability movement is moving so slowly in fashion is because of the bottom line. Unless it becomes more profitable to be sustainable, most businesses will continue along the safe conventional route. But how to make sustainability the more profitable option? The UK fashion industry is offering one solution – give sustainable businesses tax breaks! In addition to making it easier for sustainable businesses to survive, this would also give conventional businesses a huge incentive to explore ways to be more sustainable.

Fashion Camp LA written up in California Apparel News, PR Couture presentation gets a recap (via California Apparel News)

  • Noricks offered her take on what growing trends can be applied toward a digital public-relations strategy. Noricks emphasized the presence of the ubiquitous fashion blogger and how her voice has become even stronger and how brands can maintain integrity and authenticity over the Web.

How to open a clothing store (via Style Sample Mag)

  • It takes a lot of work to open an online shop, so what must it be like to open a brick-and-mortar clothing store in a less-than-perfect economy

Recession not over for Fashion PR (via Fashionista)

  • One industry professional explained to us that, while business isn’t necessarily down, rates are. The dollar figure clients are offering for monthly retainers, one-off events, and other services has literally halved in many circumstances. Which means PRs are working the same amount for a lot less money.