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Manus x Machina (Hand x Machine)
Historically, traditionally, in both haute couture and prêt-à-porter (ready-to-wear) fashion design and production, there was a dichotomy of two methods; a clear division between fashion made manually, by hand (manus) and that which was machine-made (machina). Today, many years after the term “fashion-tech” was coined, the lines between handmade and machine-made have become blurred. A blending and…
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Vertical Solution: Fashion & Apparel
After years of working with model agencies, we decided to focus on solutions for companies which do one or more of the following related to clothing, apparel, beauty, cosmetics, and/or fashion accessories: We offer four Fashion-Apparel-Footwear-Accessories solutions: We are ready to help take your Fashion, Apparel, Footwear, Accessories business to the next level — planet-wide!…
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Bookish on McGraw-Hill
Client Case Study: McGraw-Hill Education In early September 2015, aka “back-to-school” time of year, our creative director received an out-of-the-blue request from an old publishing colleague requesting urgent assistance with book designs! It was a high-level manager at McGraw-Hill Education, who explained that — due to sudden, calamitous budget-shrinkage related to the ongoing devolution, evolution,…
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Swelter & Swagger – NYC Street Style in August
August 2016 weather was super hot and humid in New York City, and so was the street style! It was sweltering, as both locals and tourists swaggered, walking the pavement runways, showing off their personal styles. Check out The Fashion Matrix for street-style and public fashion images we’re posting. Below, is a selection of what we’ve “Seen…
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NYC Summer Street Style in July
We call our fashion-apparel-footwear-accessories division “The Fashion Matrix” which is focused on technology solutions for fashion design, manufacturing, distribution, and retail management. Along the way, The Fashion Matrix has found our photographic purpose, our vibe, our groove, our “visual voice” as lovers of fashion: it’s street-style! We’ll post mostly NYC street-style, but of course we’ll shoot…
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What the heck is RIM?
Perhaps you can figure out “RIM” from the drawing above… A simple definition: R.I.M. is an old consulting and tech-speak acronym for “Rapid Implementation Methodology. A bit more detail: Rapid Implementation Methodology or “RIM” is a consulting/services approach to implementing software (primarily), based on template(s) and “best practice(s)” rather than a completely unique “start from scratch” approach…
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Acronym Soup
As you may have noticed (how could you not?), the tech world is awash in jargon, lingo, languages, letters, numbers, texts, characters, codes, abbreviations, and initials — a veritable alphabet and acronym soup! In fact, the phrase “information technology” itself is rarely used any more, having been forcibly replaced by the now ubiquitous acronym “IT” which…
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Brazil is Complicated and Fabulous!
We succumbed to the allure and promise of doing business in Brazil! To satisfy a client requirement (NYC-N.A. based) to expand internationally, we were engaged (as DreamIT) to provide Dynamics NAV ERP-based systems and services to facilitate and launch their business in Brazil, while satisfying all local requirements. The client was a multi-faceted import, wholesale & retail group, which may have meant…










