Microsoft and Partners Bring High Tech
to Haute Couture with Style Star

Official press release
12/01/2010

MILAN and PARIS – January 11, 2010 – At the National Retail Federation’s NRF 99^th Annual Convention & Expo today, Microsoft Corp. in cooperation with Accenture and Avanade, introduced “Style Star” with Marina Garzoni, president and founder of Moda e Tecnologia.  The new offering showcasing Microsoft’s leadership in global retail information technology solutions was first previewed in Italy at the Venice Film Festival and Milan Fashion Week in September.

Style Star offers a new way of selling fashion and luxury goods to consumers by combining interaction with emotion across digital marketing, ecommerce, customer relationship management (CRM) and Web services. Together with its partners, Microsoft developed the Style Star MSN format melding fashion and cinema that directly reaches out to consumers and amplifies the advertising and promotional reach of the fashion and luxury industry’s short film production and promotional efforts.

After 60 years, the fashion and luxury landscape is undergoing significant change. Runway shows no longer seem the only way to promote fashion in the globalized, technological new world of the 21st century, and the fashion and luxury consumer is no longer seen as a target but as an individual demanding participation, exchange and co-creation. Forward-thinking, visionary luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Dior, Chanel, Prada, Tod’s and Ferragamo are experimenting with new forms of brand communication and promotion for a mix of digital and traditional media, including cinematography and short film vignettes.

Emerging technology has expanded the relationship between the brand experience and the consumer by providing a 360-degree way of communicating through both virtual and real world channels — a truly unique multichannel experience.

“With regards to the collaboration between Moda e Tecnologia and Microsoft, we thought this would be the right time to launch Style Star, a new project that allows us to bring the general public close together with the fashion and cinema world,” said Marina Garzoni, president of Moda e Tecnologia and director of Style Star which was created by her. “We believe that today more than ever, having seen the economic link and the changes that are taking place, there is the need in the fashion and luxury world to explore the potential of the mix of fashion, cinema and technology and the impact it can have on the future of the industry.”

“Catwalks of the future can take advantage of advancements in technology to showcase their brands, drive loyalty and advertise via video and online media,” said Paula Paravecchio, EMEA managing director, Distribution & Services Industry, Microsoft. “This adds a powerful emotional connection with the brands and provides a new level of authenticity that speaks directly to consumers to augment the overall experience.”

Style Star enables retailers in the fashion and other industries to drive brand experience, loyalty, social networking and new channels to reach consumers, seek opinions on new product launches, and gain market insights through real-time and virtual participation.  This one-to-one customer relationship will enable retailers and others to customize their products and meet the needs of those global industries in which the customer is increasingly in control.”

Style Star will bring together and celebrate these short fashion and luxury film vignettes, thereby creating a collaborative and promotional environment involving designers, fashion and luxury companies, production houses and advertising agencies, and well-known and up-and-coming directors. Within the Style Star format, brands and designers will be able to showcase their productions and tell their story in an appropriate and empowering context fueled by the most innovative technologies.

Thanks also to collaboration with Leo Burnett, its official communication agency, and Microsoft MSN, Style Star now will span both the real and the virtual digital worlds.

Together with partners like Accenture and Avanade, Microsoft has created its own integrated Style Star offering for the fashion and luxury world that will enable immediate consumer interaction with the brand and collection — from media release to advertising and viral communication (via the Web or a mobile device).  New collections now are available online or via many channels to promote consumer loyalty and drive cross-sell and up-sell.

Microsoft in Retail

Microsoft is the leading provider of global retail information technology solutions.  Microsoft is #1 in store systems, with 90% market share in retail POS OS (Source: IHL).  Microsoft also is the leader in business intelligence (BI): 100% of retailers use Excel, the #1 decision support tool.  Microsoft also leads in digital marketing as the only end-to-end solutions provider.  Its digital marketing solutions range from the stack (Windows, Windows Server, SQL Server, .NET, Visual Studio) to online (Commerce Server) to mobile (Windows Mobile), and from digital advertising (Bing, AdCenter) to entertainment (Xbox, Xbox LIVE, Zune, Silverlight).  Microsoft delivers connected experiences for stores, commerce and the enterprise via the “three screens” (PC, browser, mobile) for anytime, anywhere on any device access.
Microsoft’s Retail Group provides software that helps retailers thrive in today’s competitive global marketplace by meeting the demand for a highly personalized and connected shopper experience. Microsoft helps retailers deliver a consistent shopping experience through seamless multi-channel integration and via innovative technologies and mobile and new social networking channels. Through a combination of Microsoft- and partner-based solutions, retailers can turn data into insight, ideas into action and change into opportunity. More information about Microsoft’s Retail Group can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/retail.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

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Style Star at the NRF Conference in New York with Microsoft and Avanade

Moda e Tecnologia, Microsoft and Avanade will be at the National Retail Federation’s NRF 99^th Annual Convention & Expo at the Jacob Javits Center in New York from January 10 – 12

with a Style Star lounge, booth 100

Because fashion and luxury goods are intrinsically tied to identity for many people, retailers are constantly looking for better ways to create a strong emotional connection to the brand and more actively engage consumers.  Moda e Tecnologia, Microsoft, Accenture and Avanade have developed an offering that helps fashion retailers create immersive interactive experiences with consumers across both real world and virtual channels.

After 60 years, the fashion and luxury landscape is undergoing significant change. Runway shows no longer seem the only way to promote fashion in the globalized, technological new world of the 21st century, and the fashion and luxury consumer is no longer seen as a target but as an individual demanding participation, exchange and co-creation. Forward-thinking, visionary luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Dior, Chanel, Prada, Tod’s and Ferragamo are experimenting with new forms of brand communication and promotion for a mix of digital and traditional media, including cinematography and short film vignettes.

“Style Star offers a new way of communicating and selling fashion and luxury goods to consumers by combining interaction with emotion across digital marketing, ecommerce, customer relationship management (CRM) and Web services,” said Marina Garzoni, President of Moda e Tecnologia and founder of Style Star.  “Moda e Tecnologia and Microsoft developed the Style Star MSN format melding fashion and cinema that directly reaches out to consumers and amplifies the advertising and promotional reach of the fashion and luxury industry’s short film production and promotional efforts.”

In addition, at the NRF Conference Moda e Tecnologia, Microsoft and Avanade are showing how fashion and luxury goods retailers can drive strong brand messages through multiple channels, including real world, digital and social media.  This approach brings new technologies to fashion for a more immersive consumer experience.  The offering was first previewed in Italy at the Venice Film Festival and Milan Fashion Week in September.

“Luxury brands are actively exploring immersive new ways to communicate with their public.  I found Style Star to be a very positive experience that allowed me to communicate the message to many through a new combination of technology, fashion and film,” said Edoardo Winspeare, Director of the Louis Vuitton short movie Les Noces de Papier (http://donne.it.msn.com/stylestar/video.aspx).  “A new era is coming.  People are asking for more authenticity and interaction.  They wish to participate and share their emotions.  Louis Vuitton understands the importance of this powerful new phenomenon and I appreciate the freedom I was given to express their message.  I was honored to be part of the first Style Star event during the 66^th Venice Film Festival with Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Ferragamo.”

Since September, major retailers in Europe have shown interest and are exploring Style Star solutions.  These include new ways to drive a unified brand message across multiple channels, including real world, digital and social media combined with an immersive new way to drive commerce.  As a result, Style Star generates greater brand visibility, attracts existing and new customers, increases sales and boosts customer loyalty.

“Emerging technology has expanded the relationship between the brand experience and the consumer by providing a 360-degree way of communicating through both virtual and real world channels, providing a connected consumer experience”, said Garzoni. “Style Star provides a whole new way to engage customers in interactive formats such as mobile, web, Surface, cinema and 3D. This builds a strong emotional connection to the overall brand and products.  Retail brands can take advantage of Style Star to excite their customers, amplify their promotional efforts and showcase their creativity and innovation.”

Thanks also to collaboration with Leo Burnett, the official communication agency of Style Star, and Microsoft MSN, Style Star now will span both the real and the virtual digital worlds.

“Style Star is an immersive experience for the fashion industry with strong appeal that connects consumers more directly to the latest trends.  Fashion and luxury brands embrace innovation and pride themselves on being leaders for the international scene.  We are evaluating this new concept which we believe represents what is next in advertising,” said Enrico Dorizza, Creative Director for Leo Burnett.

“We believe that today more than ever, having seen the economic link and the changes that are taking place, there is a need in the fashion and luxury world to explore potential of the mix of fashion, cinema and the technology and the impact it can have on the future of the industry,” said Garzoni.

About Style Star

Style Star launched in Italy at the 66^th Venice Film Festival and the Milano Fashion Week in September with Marina Garzoni, President and Founder of Moda e Tecnologia, with Microsoft.

The concept is a new way of communication and selling to fashion consumers combining interaction with emotion across digital marketing, ecommerce, CRM and web services.

Style Star is an innovative format, with interactive fashion vignettes, cinema and MSN which amplifies the advertising and promotional reach of the fashion and luxury industry through short film vignettes.

For more information, go to www.stylestarfestival.com or contact us at press@modatecnologia.com

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STYLE STAR AT NFR in NEW YORK with Microsoft and Avanade.

The National Retail Federation’s annual show is “the” place for retailers to be. Whether it’s the CFO, VP of Loss Prevention or CIO, retailers flock to New York each January to learn and network with over 16000 attendees, representing over 4000 retail companies from across the US and around the world.

Microsoft once again has a huge presence at NRF Annual – we’ve set a great “table” for your customer – now we need you to invite them to the feast. We’ll have retail GMs, Directors and Subject Matter Experts on hand with one goal in mind – to help you close business in FY10!

Microsoft, in cooperation with Avanade, introduce for the first time Style Star at NFR ( NY 10-13 jan 2010).

Marina Garzoni, President of the non profit association Moda e Tecnologia (www.modatecnologia.com) and director of Style Star (www.stylestarfestival.com, www.stylestar.it) will be at NFR.

About Style Star
Star Style launched in Italy at the 66° Venice Film Festival and Milano Fashion Week in September with Marina Garzoni, President and Founder of Moda e Tecnologia with Microsoft . The concept is a new way of communication and selling to fashion consumers combining interaction with emotion across digital markeitng, ecommerce, CRM and web services. Star Style is an innovative format, with interactive fashion vignettes, cinema, and MSN which amplifies the advertising and promotional reach of the fashion and luxury indusry’s through short film vignettes. http://stylestar.it

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Tocca alla tecnologia sfilare in passerella.

Repubblica — 14 dicembre 2009   pagina 39   sezione: AFFARI FINANZA

Nell’ anno in cui si festeggia il primo sbarco dell’ uomo sulla luna la moda, crisi permettendo, coltiva la sua magnifica ossessione per la ricerca, come dimostrano alcune collezioni invernali, ad esempio quella di Nina Ricci (nella foto un modello). E la tecnologia sembra tenderle una mano. Ma anche se in certi casi la moda ha la mania di giocare d’ anticipo sui tempi fino a propugnare modelli e soluzioni improbabili, tuttavia raramente viaggia alla stessa velocità della tecnologia perché il progresso non sente ragioni e tira dritto per la sua strada.

E se in America i ricercatori del Massachussets Institute of Technology, sotto la guida di Nicholas Negroponte, hanno elaborato studi interessanti sulle “tecnologie indossabili”, vale la pena chiedersi se oggi il mondo è pronto per gli “abiti intelligenti”. Quelli, per capirci che, grazie ai cristalli liquidi trasmettono videoclip, si illuminano con i microled, possono renderci “trasparenti” o ci isolano dai batteri e dalle onde elettromagnetiche. «Oggi la moda è scettica riguardo alla tecnologia perché la prima attinge al passato, alimentando il sogno mentre la seconda mira a cambiare in positivo la nostra vita». Marina Garzoni, presidente dell’ associazione Modatecnologia, è da anni votata allo studio di questa chimerica relazione.

E oggi è arrivata ad alcune conclusioni: «L’ unico mezzo che oggi consente un dialogo concreto fra moda e tecnologia è Internet, perché la rete, grazie ai social network e all’ interattività, consente di condividere emozioni fino a trasformare il web nel più competente personal shopper, assegnando ai consumatori online perfino un ruolo attivo nella produzione di determinati oggetti, come dimostra il caso americano dei prosumers».

Nella moda la vera rivoluzione passa dai tessuti ma, secondo la Garzoni, «le aziende del lusso oggi, dati i costi elevati che questo richiede, sono riluttanti a investire in progetti troppo sperimentali anche perché assecondando le invenzioni scientifiche, finirebbero per stravolgere la filiera e rendere superfluo il consumo di oggetti e indumenti che la tecnocrazia rende pressoché indistruttibili». Accanto a certi segnali futuribili provenienti dalle sfilate estive esiste però una sperimentazione realistica che dalle passerelle porta nel quotidiano le idee più innovative. A trainare questo filone è l’ applicazione alle fibre alternative (latte, legno) delle nanotecnologìe. Le stesse che hanno dato vita ai tessuti ibridi, cioè prettamente naturali ma con performance tecniche frutto di trattamenti con sostanze come enzimi e siliconature. Per il resto il futuro può attendere. (e.m.a.)

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• sulla foto* qui sotto: MARINA GARZONI con NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE al MIT, Gennaio 2006.
  

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Innovazione tecnologica nel retail & “remote shopping”.

Marina Garzoni al centro ACIN, Accenture 2008.

Questo dispositivo permette di provare molti occhiali virtualmente, senza provarli di fatto, ma cliccando su un campionario di scelte che appaiono sul monitor si ha la immediata possibilità di vedere quali montature ti stanno meglio.
Alla  base l’idea è quella di comprare “virtualmente” attraverso macchine tipo “NOI”.
Per ora non è ancora in commercio, ma serve per sviluppare nuove frontiere nell’e-commerce.

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Moda e Tecnologia- TALK SHOW.

Abbiamo trovato nei nostri archivi questo video, da pubblicare sicuramente su tutti canali 2.0. E’ una presentazione del TALK SHOW “Moda e Tecnologia”, ideato e condotto da Marina Garzoni dal 2005.

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Visioni di Moda e Tecnologia.

Marina Garzoni speaker per il Business Club MilanIN.

“Presenta Te Stesso” 30 novembre 2009 ORE 20.00: Business Club MilanIN ospite di SALMOIRAGHI & VIGANO’, P.ZA SAN BABILA con il VIP speaker Marina Garzoni, Fondatore e Presidente dell’associazione Moda e Tecnologia.

ufficio stampa MilanIN

Lunedì 30 novembre Milan IN si sposterà dal Pacino Cafè nel nuovissimo Flagship Store di Salmoiraghi & Vigano’ di Piazza San Babila per incontrare Marina Garzoni esperta di strategie di distribuzione, pubbliche relazioni, concept innovativi, organizzazione di eventi, visione e forecast.

Si trattera’ di un evento straordinario ospitato nel nuovissimo Flagship Store di Salmoiraghi & Viganò per combinare la bellezza e l’innovazione di questo luogo con la professione e le visioni di Moda e Tecnologia di Marina.

Marina in 20 anni di attività si è specializzata nel campo della moda e nel lusso, lavorando sia in Italia che all’estero. E’ la fondatrice e Presidente dell’Associazione no profit ‘Moda e Tecnologia’. Marina affianca all’attività dell’associazione anche quella della consulenza. Nel Dicembre del 2007 all’ICA (Istituto di Arte Contemporanea) di Boston, ha presentato due progetti innovativi da lei ideati: NOI, un nuovo canale distributivo, e STYLE STAR, innovativo modo di presentare le collezioni attraverso cortometraggi, anticipando il fenomeno dei “corti di moda”. Egea, casa editrice dell’Università Bocconi, nel novembre 2008 ha pubblicato il libro Moda&Tecnologia, che Marina ha scritto insieme con Roberto Dona’, Professore SDA Bocconi e Direttore della Global Executive MBA SDA Bocconi, e la prefazione di Robert Grant, giá docente di Strategia alla Georgetown University di Washington, ora Eni Chair professor all’Università Bocconi e autore di diversi best seller.

Un evento destinato ai soci attivi nei settori lusso e moda, che si terrà nel nuovissimo Flagship Store Salmoiraghi e Viganò, un innovativo Concept Store dedicato al benessere visivo e alla moda. Con l’occasione ringraziamo anticipatamente tutto lo staff di Salmoiraghi&Vigano’ ed in particolare il Direttore Marketing GIANNI COSSAR, socio e attivo sostenitore di molte iniziative di Milan IN.

Un evento destinato ai soci MilanIN attivi nel settore moda e lusso, che si terr… Read Moreà nel nuovissimo Flagship Store Salmoiraghi & Viganò , un innovativo Concept Store dedicato al benessere visivo e alla moda .

I posti sono limitati a massimo 30 partecipanti, è perciò indispensabile confermare la propria presenza inviando entro le ore 13 di giovedì 26 novembre una mail all’indirizzo eventi@milanin.com, specificando il proprio nome e cognome. Seguirà la nostra conferma di partecipazione all’evento.

P.S. per chi desidera partecipare all’evento (ha dei requisiti per farlo) ma non e’ socio del Club: http://JOIN.milanin.com

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Marina Garzoni parla con ADV di Style Star.

Moda e comunicazione. Un laboratorio di autenticita’ e “imperfezione”.

ADV- Luglio- 2009.  Potete leggere l’articolo intero in scan sul nostro flickr.

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Marina Garzoni presente Corti di Moda, su RAIUno.

Abbiamo pubblicato sul nostro canale youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/StyleStarMT) un pezzo del programma Speciale “Moda e Cinema” girato il 12 Settembre su RaiUno, con un intervento da parte di Marina Garzoni, fondatore e direttore Style Star. Marina ha introdotto il concetto del “corto di moda” ed ha parlato della sua iniziativa Style Star.

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Marina Garzoni racconta Style Star

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