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<DIV><BR><I>''If you look at Wikipedia, a lot of the [fashion] designer or
brand pages do not have a lot of information on them, and Wikipedia does not
really focus on images, so you will not ever find the new collections or
[fashion] look books on there,'' she says. <BR><BR>''At the moment, there is
no central database for fashion, a location where a girl can find the latest
look book for Marc Jacobs or the first collection for Chanel. Either they are
not there or they are on a host of different websites, so we want </I></DIV>
<DIV><I>to create all of that in one
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sarah Stierch says:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT><BR>...uh..it's called Style.com and it's
the greatest fashion website, <I>ever</I>, and has been for almost ten years.
(Always makes me laugh that people in the fashion world forget men are as into
fashion as much as women are, too!) <BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote><FONT size=2 face=Arial>And I comment:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Given <EM>my</EM> experience
with Wikipedia's fashion coverage, I think I can speak to this with some
authority.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><FONT size=2 face=Arial>We <EM>did</EM> create a little
external-link template for style.com: <A
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Style.com_collection">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Style.com_collection</A>,
that can be used as you would use the Facebook, Twitter or MySpace templates.
It's, as Sarah says, an excellent resource.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I don't mind the idea of the
look-book thing—we could and should arguably have articles on notable
designers' biannual collections, and there would thus inevitably be associated
Commons categories, which would serve as look books.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote><FONT size=2 face=Arial>What we'd <EM>need</EM>—and
this, it seems to me, is where wikifashion is failing—is someone who can take
those pictures with a decent enough camera and can get access to the shows.
Someone with some professional experience as a fashion photographer (cue
Steely Dan's "Peg", from the now-deleted "Songs about fashion" category:
"<EM>When the shutter falls / You see it all in 3-D / It's your favorite
foreign movie ...</EM>"), in other words.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The problem, though, is that
these people are not usually open to freely-licensing their work. And even, I
suppose, a Wikipedian with the skill set might not necessarily be welcome at a
fashion show, not if it was known that they were going to create images that
would undermine the commercial value of the work of every other photographer
there.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote><FONT size=2 face=Arial>But, then again, we
<EM>did</EM> get people into sporting events eventually, so I'm sure we'll
eventually get someone into a fashion show or two.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Daniel Case</FONT></DIV>
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