A conversation on the pace of fashion, hosted by Shala Monroque, with Suzy Menkes, and Imran Amed as part of the Miu Miu Musings Salon series, all of which took place in London, earlier this month.  Via BoF, which also has a few images of the attendees.

In true snob fashion we ‘re notorious for looking at  high-end accessories, mostly bag,s and wishing the label had the wit to ask our opinion to decide which color scheme or material should be used to take a bag from  kind of okay to flat out fabulous. In one of the first crowd-sourcing experiments, luxury leather accessories designer Bill Amberg  partners with BoF’s Imran Amed to let you the customer chose which one of their  Calgary bags (unisex) should be produced.

Having recently laid eyes on the Calgary, we have to praise its handsomeness and the fact that is allows you to schlep around your technology and the occasional flats backups, while still boasting a silhouette that is sleek and compact allowing the lushness of materials to speak for themselves. The proposed assortment of black, patent grey and brown (on the flip) is of course stunning. Therefore, go here and decide which one you’d like to see made, while you can also purchase other versions like the croc that stole my heart here. View them on them all on the  next page.  Images courtesy of Bof.

Via Business of Fashion:

Ten years ago at 19:27 GMT on 27 November 2000, at a time before streaming runway shows, before Facebook, before YouTube, before the rise of Web 2.0 itself, Nick Knight’s transformative fashion website SHOWstudio.com went live. Mr. Knight, a boundary-breaking fashion photographer, had considered the internet and saw something that others did not: where many in the industry saw only ugliness and risk, he saw the potential for emotion, connection and opportunity. Crucially, he also understood that digital — inherently active, social, transparent and restless — would fundamentally transform the “closed” fashion system and radically change the way fashion media was created and consumed. While others averted their eyes, Nick  Knight set about catalysing the revolution.”

In front  of an audience of 200,  Nick Knight  shares his thoughts on fashion, Showstudio and much more. The conversation even became a trending topic on Twitter!