#Big Data in Fashion
#Fashion Forecasting
This app is still in pre-alpha. This project was inspired by a book I read about the sociology of fashion. The author argues that fashion is a symbolic cultural product, dimensionally different from discussions on the articles of clothing. In the great words of Yuniya Kawamura, “fashion is not about clothes but is a belief”. In her book, she clarifies the difference between a “fashion system” and a “clothing system”, where fashion has intangible value yet propagated by cultural infrastructures promoting the activities of perceiving clothing as art.
Reference: Kawamura, Yuniya. 2005. Fashion-ology. Oxford: Berg.
###End Product Current design ideas for FashionForecaster include these components but are not limited to:
##Technical Environment:
Demo of Flask app on Google App Engine: http://style-buzz.appspot.com
Demo of Django app on PythonAnywhere: http://katychuang.pythonanywhere.com
Code https://github.com/katychuang/Python-Fashion-Forecaster
###Talks
NYC Python Meetup
PyData 2013 Silicon Valley (Slides)