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Via BUSINESSOFFASHION:

INDUSTRIE turns the spotlight back on the fashion industry itself, “as the first and only media title dedicated to going behind the scenes to chronicle the personalities, stories and defining moments in the world of fashion” through interviews with some of fashion’s biggest stars, as seen by the industry’s hottest photographers, stylists and writers.

Overall, INDUSTRIE brings together the kind of content that industry watchers may never have been able to find in one publication before. It’s like the fashion industry’s version of a high-school yearbook, except seriously more stylish and elegant, showcasing the fashion industry’s stars in their best light.

Industrie catwalks onto the newsstands May 24.

ATOMS ARE THE NEW BITS

From WIRED Mag:

If the past 10 years have been about discovering post-institutional social models on the Web, then the next 10 years will be about applying them to the real world. Transformative change happens when industries democratize...The internet democratized publishing, broadcasting, and communications...now the same thing is happening to manufacturing.

We've seen this picture before: It's what happens just before monolithic industries fragment in the face of countless small entrants, from the music industry to newspapers. Lower the barriers to entry and the crowd pours in.