Showing posts with label Fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fashion. Show all posts

Saturday, 15 June 2013

GreenGlamGo.com, Premiere Green and Sustainable Fashion Mobile App to Launch in Nokias Ovi Store


San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 3, 2011

GreenGlamGo is a mobile shopping app thats also an educational tool: helping consumers shop with intention, vote with their dollars, cut through the clutter, and organize resources: bringing the best in green and sustainable fashion design and lifestyle into one app. GreenGlamGo opens the playing field: offering consumers the hippest, under the radar, green, and sustainable designers/brands that may be too undercapitalized to elbow their way into the global retail space, but are no less relevant.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Mobile App

Flash Lite 4.0 in Web Runtime (WRT)
Runs on Symbian^3 devices with screen resolution of 360×640 (Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia C7 at the moment)
MD5 encrypted user validation and authentication
JSON data transactions, content pulled from greenglamgo.com web server

Backend

Custom WordPress implementation
All content (web + mobile) managed through single UI
Custom Google Analytics implementation for mobile and web metrics
Mobile optimized dynamic image rescaling

Website

Optimized for latest versions of all commonly used web browsers

Future Plans

Publish Adobe AIR versions of the app for Android and iPhone
Same core code for all platforms with platform specific minor tweaks
Possible to use same code to build iPAD-apps for platforms supporting Adobe AIR
Develop app for Nokias Windows Phone, when available.

ABOUT

GreenGlamGo – Carolyn Gerin is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Top 100 Bridal Blog Antibride.com, creator of the bestselling 3-book Anti-Bride series published by Chronicle Books, and the first bridal blog to hit the iTunes Store: the Anti-Bride iPhone app. She also serves as Senior Editor of Destination I Do Magazine. Clarissa Nicosia, a fashion industry veteran with over 2000 fashion runway shows and trend presentations under her belt, has brought emerging eco designers and brands in beauty, kidswear, menswear, juniors, RTW, and couture to US consumers. Shes worked with Project Runway designers, Michael Kors, Valentino, Global Green USA, and served as a regional fashion coordinator at Nordstrom. In 2009, in a noisy San Francisco noodle shop, they noodled over how to marry Clarissas background in traditional retail and eco fashion with Carolyns agency background in art direction, publishing, product development, and technology. On a cocktail napkin, GreenGlamGo was born. They brought their concept to developers Luxus SF, applied for Nokias Open Screen Project Fund, and the rest is history. GreenGlamGo is a mobile site, smart phone application, and social platform that aggregates the most creative, under the radar, green, handmade, sustainable designers and retailers, bringing them to a wider audience with curated offerings, engaging content, and the ability for eco-fashionistas to shop ethically and stylishly.

GET THE APP

GreenGlamGo can be downloaded to your Nokia phone by visiting the Ovi Store: http://store.ovi.com/content/97688

Facebook: GreenGlamGo

Twitter: @GreenGlamGo


GreenGlamGo.com, Premiere Green and Sustainable Fashion Mobile App to Launch in Nokias Ovi Store

Thursday, 30 May 2013

Luxury Publication Vogue Italia Announced as Official International Media Partner for Ghana Fashion Week 2012


Accra, Ghana (PRWEB) April 28, 2012

Ghana makes fashion history. The organisers of Ghana Fashion and design week (GFDW) event are pleased to announce Vogue Italia as their international media partner for the upcoming event scheduled for the 5th -7th October 2012 at the Moevenpick Ambassador hotel in Accra, Ghana. The digital luxury fashion publication has joined forces with GFDW to bring exclusive coverage of the event to the world.

This collaboration is truly one-of-a-kind with Vogue Black Italia high readership from all over the globe, GFDW mission is to provide international journalistic coverage of the fashion event. Making history for Ghana and the African continent, such collaboration has never happened before and we hope this partnership lead GFDW commitment to the promotion of designers, ensuring international publishers are able to easily access official, sought after GFDW images, content and enabling designers to promote themselves to a global audience.

Vogue Italia will exclusively be covering the runway shows, with special backstage features and interviews. It is with great pleasure to add Vogue Italia to GFDW list of global partners, including luxury brands such as LOreal and Porsche. This partnership provides participating fashion designers, models and sponsors with brand coverage in key markets; allowing them to be discovered by new contacts globally.

About Ghana Fashion & Design Week

Ghana Fashion & Design Week


Luxury Publication Vogue Italia Announced as Official International Media Partner for Ghana Fashion Week 2012