LRG Spring 2012 Video including the guys The Workaholics…sure are starting things off alright!
China: The Future Fashion Market
May 10th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Businesses everywhere today are looking at one target in aim of moving their future factories and pinpointing spots to open future store locations. China. It has become a major center of global business and looks to have an even bigger impact in the coming future. Every major industry has at least some foothold or involvement within the bustling country.One huge industry that has been primarily based in China and much of Asia is the textile industry. One could argue that over 80% of the clothing in the world is woven and stitched together in China and sent to your local mall. ABC news reported in one article that ” 98% of the clothing purchased in the United States is imported from abroad. Just two percent of the clothing bought in this country is produced on US soil.” From a country that become a merchant traders heaven during the Silk Road period to now, China has always been involved in one way or another with clothing apparels and textiles. Flipping around your shirt around right now and looking at the tag odds are it will say “Made in China.” Though the country has become the trademark of producing the world’s apparel it has also lauded recent attention as an emerging and highly anticipated market for selling clothes. From the recent economic growth the country has witnessed, many new middle and upper classes have begun springing up, something the communistic country has never witnessed before. With the coming classes has come the new found ability to spend more. Many name brand fashion lines such as Burberry, Prada, and Gucci have all noticed by opening up many new stores throughout some of the major Chinese cities. Analysts have said that China accounts for over a third of many of these fashion lines gross profits. The numbers are only expected to increase.
Other sources have stated that “luxury consumption in China is about 20% of global luxury consumption now and is expected to increase to 50% over the next 10 to 13 years.” The new luxury shopping bug that has taken over China has also affected nearby countries. Thailand for example will be debuting 50 new clothing brands into its country to cope with the booming luxury industry that has spilled over. This includes many well known brands such as Ralph Lauren, Louie Vuitton, and Oakley. This new inflow is business is just a showing of the different varieties of clothing brands that are trying to get a share of the still very primitive market.
Chinese have a great attraction of showing off their level in society, whether it is driving sports cars, wearing expensive clothing, or adapting to western habits. The Chinese economy has greatly influenced how Chinese are able to increase their daily spending and helped the luxury market tremendously. Luxury brands will continue to seek ways of gaining their popularity in the 1.3 billion populated country. Let the competition begin..
Chinese Gucci Ad
Burberry in China
Prada Ad in China
Camille Rose Garcia
May 3rd, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Camille Rose Garcia is a lowbrow artist from Los Angeles. Her work can be described as a dark, Gothic cartoonish version of what she manipulates. Her work has included doing her own versions of Alice in Wonderland and one of her newer sets, Snow White. Each of her works contains a dark style and element that show a different side to the characters of each of these children stories. Looking at her work you can definitely sense an evilness in side each one of her works. As you will see each of her works contains a type of drippyness flow to it, with big blots of color coming from top to bottom. In the meantime check out these photos of her work and in the future look to a new toy company she has in the works.
Camille Garcia Happy Owl
Camille Garcia Squid
Snow White & Dwarfs
Lipton Ice Tea Artist Series
December 22nd, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
I have always loved collecting and trying to gather up collections all odd ball things. Anything from small toy collections, to old gaming cards, to limited edition items and blah blah blah..A few months ago I was in a gas station making a quick stop to grab something to drink when I ran across these Lipton Ice Teas. They weren’t just your regular Lipton Ice Teas with the usual graphics of tea flowing out everywhere. These special Lipton Ice Teas all had their unique designs, with different flavors and all. Each one was a designed by a different artist. They’re pretty cool in my mind, kind of along the same lines as the Mountain Dew artist series. But anyways I’ve started collecting them and here’s what I’ve gathered so far.. Gonna see if I can drink em all!
As I make more random stops at the gas stations or supermarkets I’ll try to see if I can find em all and post em up here. Stay around!
Careful with your Social Media….
December 12th, 2011 § 0 comments § permalink
After a long day at work all you may feel like is doing is going home and taking a breather. Grabbing your computer or phone you decide to let your friends know all about your stressful day at work. Venting your anger about your job, how horrible your boss may be treating you, or expressing your innermost feelings about how things need to change are nothing new. Once out of the work zone we all believe that we are free of any attachments or strings related to work. This goes along with anything we might say out on the internet. Propping open your computer you log onto Facebook and begin writing about your awful happenings at work. Social media has obviously now become our first outlet and main source of communication. As we have all come to believe, what we post on our social sites is our own personal beliefs that should pose no problem to to work. We all like to think that there is no possible way that we could get in trouble for anything we might say on Facebook of Twitter… right? Well, there’s more snooping around then you may believe and your next day could be surprise visit to your boss’s office….not about a salary raise but perhaps your last check with the company.
Looking at social media we imagine it as our own private space on the cyber world where we should be able to do anything we feel we want to do. If I felt that in this exact moment that I wanted the whole Facebook world to know what restaurants have the best and worst Mexican food in town I would write a post about it. If I felt that one retail store had awesome customer service compared to another competitor I would state my opinion. I could even post about how big an asshole my boss is if I really felt like it. My friends might comment on the post and ask more about the situation. However, it may not just be my friends taking a glance at the post. As the whole world has become more knowledgeable about the internet, it is a public space where virtually nothing is actually private and non accessible. That person scrolling through the posts on their own personal time could be just the boss your dissing upon or your employer. It may even be the people behind the social media accounts of your employer. The simplest remark especially you post on any social media website could be swept right up lower end employees of the company and sent straight through to the head honchos. Your fate in the company could be decided in just an instant. As I believe and what much of the whole internet would believe as well, social media information should be private information. Nothing said on these sites should have the power to put us in a prickly situation at work or harm our personal relationships with others. Is is off-work hours and we all should have the ability of personal speech on any social media websites without being afraid it could backfire on us in the future. We should all have the slightest idea about what we post on social media account before we post it up for good. This is not the case though. Wake up a bit and realize what your posting about if it is job related next time.What we really think is our personal space is not, it’s public space, believe it or not. Its anyone’s territory. Free game.
