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Last weekend, I attended the Ethical Fashion Show held near the Louvre. Not only was I surprised that the admission was considerably low for such an event (6 Euros for students, 10 for regular admission) but I was also surprised by the turnout. The turnout was equivalent to that of this year’s Toronto’s Green Living Show (mind you, the Toronto Transit Commission had a strike, which stopped a lot of crowds from coming). I guess France’s superhero isn’t the eco-conscious crusader.

Some of the booths intrigued me. I was more in search of clothing that were using organic materials, but there were young companies making use of other ethical approaches, such as equity, social projects, and the like. Of course, I would’ve been more impressed if they also made use of natural materials, which quite a few of them did. The organic and natural materials though, were lacking a bit in diversity. As an option to be eco-friendly, most of the exhibitors chose the approach of using organic cotton or to use silk for their clothing.

The fashion show for sportswear and urban wear was meant to be the highlight of this exhibition. And it was. For the most part, I thought the models did an excellent job representing the clothing line that they were wearing.

Tags:   Eco-Conscious · Eco-Friendly · Ethical · Ethical Fashion Show · France · Louvre · October · Paris · Urban1 Comment

If you have seen this webpage before, you’ll notice that a lot has changed. I’ve rid myself of many of all my past entries and of my layout. Reverting to a simple template that I’m gradually tweaking, I have yet to figure out what it is I want to use this for.

But why get rid of everything?

Well, this past summer I have been working in an office (aside from working my food and beverage jobs) where I first redesigned logos to developing and designing websites. But of course, it’s not all fun and games where I can simply slap some codes together and pray for Google’s bots to crawl onto the webpage. I wound up having to do intensive research on the topic of search engine optimization to hopefully generate more hits for the company. What I wound up realizing was that I was going about my way of SEO (search engine optimization) all wrong - in fact, I hadn’t even heard of the term until this summer!

Scratching my whole webpage, I’ve decided to make this one more efficient and run everything from Wordpress. However, I haven’t scrapped the domain name because age of a domain also plays in as a factor for being searched - I’ll worry about that later. Getting hits isn’t all that important to me, it has just been irking me that I could’ve been doing this (which I can’t even define myself) a more efficient way.

Aside from website related things, I have started university at New York University. I’m on a first year exchange and living in Paris, France. It’s a pretty interesting experience given that there’s incredibly few people in our program - it’s basically gifted program version 2.0 with some quirks. With regards to the city, Paris is incredibly different from Toronto. I can’t pick out one thing at this moment to discuss, but there are plenty of ways in which the cities differ.

Tags:   Canada · France · New York University · NYU in France · Paris · Search Engine Optimization · Tepraco · TorontoNo Comments.