I will be attending the Magic tradeshow in Las Vegas in two weeks. You may be thinking to yourself “Cody, you are a grown man, what are you doing playing Magic the Gathering”, but I’m proud to say that is not the case. Magic is the premeir, twice a year, tradeshow for the fashion industry.
So, now you may be asking yourself “Cody, you are involved with a software company, what are you doing going to a fashion tradeshow?”. I will be there with Desired Hearts, a t-shirt label for now, learning about the industry and promoting our soon-to-launch website that Downtown Cartel built.
I’ve been to a few fashion shows, and been to plenty of boutiques in the different metropolitan areas I’ve lived in, but I’ve never been on the “industry side” of things.
What I’m Expecting To Learn
I want to learn how the different companies pitch their ideas. How they separate themselves from each other. I’m also wondering if there is something to learn about how we do our own service/product pitches by looking at a wildly different industry. I’ll be taking lots of notes and really digging into the techniques.
I think it will be a wildly different type of tradeshow than I’m used to, to say the least. I mean Linux World doesn’t quite have the same sort of feel that this one will.
comments:
2 Comments »
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL
That sounds like fun, Cody, but do you think the T-Shirts will be as cool as the ones at Linux World??? I dunno… http://www.flickr.com/photos/linuxjournal/2748355034/in/set-72157606634486338/
Maybe we should start our own conference about Linux + Fashion. Think it will be a hit?
Comment by Katherine — August 11, 2008 @ 7:06 pm
Meeting you guys at Magic was the highlight San Francisco Hat Company’s show! Glad you stopped at our booth Cody & thanks for returning with the Downtown Cartel / Desired Hearts crew. Sally and I look forward to getting to know ya’ll and following up on the many threads of conversation that were launched.
Comment by Stefan Schinzinger — September 2, 2008 @ 1:11 pm