We were so proud when we saw that a group of LB members decided to come together this weekend to show their continued support for the victims of Japan's recent earthquakes and tsunamis!
To show OUR support for this respectable effort, LOOKBOOK.nu will donate $1 (USD) to the Japan relief efforts for each "hype" that the looks below accumulate by the end of this weekend (Sunday, May 8, 2011 @ 11:59 PM Pacific time).
You know what to do!
Stay strong, Japan by Anastasia S.
Sending love to Japan by Mayo W.
Help! I need somebody! by Peter A.
This Is For Japan by Amanda L.
Japan Fighto The Collaboration Project!!! by Oh A.
Support Japan your own way by Johanne D.
Meant to live for so much more by Yoshi S.
Nippon raise by Henny B.
Hope for them, Japan by Cathie N.
You are not alone. by Helene T.
We will be keeping tabs on the site for more Japan looks and adding our faves to this page as well as our photo album on Facebook. Feel free to participate by letting us know about any looks that we missed!
Thanks and our very best to all our friends in Japan!
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Many of you have been reporting "503 errors" when posting looks, or have been seeing your looks posted multiple times...we just want to let you know we're working on it and will have this fixed ASAP. Sorry for all the trouble and we'll keep you updated on any improvements!
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Congratulations to Levina L. and Addy M., the final winners of our Style Skins contest with MTV and Diesel! Levina and Addy's fresh takes on the styles of Michelle and Tony's characters won each of them a trip to NYC to style actors Rachel Thevenard (Michelle) and James Newman (Tony) for the MTV SKINS premiere party. They'll also be raiding the Diesel clothing store on 5th Avenue for a brand new $1000 wardrobe!
Michelle's New Look
Got a lust for life
by Levina L.
"Rachel Thevenard: 'Michelle's style is sexy, fliratious, girly, and she wears a lot of layers.'
Leather, lace, and ruffles."
Tony's New Look
A Douche but Dapper
by Addy M.
"Groomed but disheveled. Street smart but still classical American. Kind of like a well-groomed douchebag."
Big thanks to everyone who submitted a look, and to MTV and Diesel for the generous prizes. Don't forget to catch the premiere of MTV SKINS this Monday, Jan. 17 at 10/9c!
Visit skins.tv for sneak peaks, cast intros, and more.
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Grand Prize Winner — Oraclefox
"Summer Fields"
Oraclefox's prize: $1200 Supré gift voucher
Second Prize Winner — Ashlee H.
"Springs first taste of summer"
Ashlee's prize: $300 Supré gift voucher
Third Prize Winner — Willabelle O.
"Where we go, we don't need roads"
Willabelle's prize: $100 Supré gift voucher
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Thank you so much to all who participated in our contest, and a special thanks to our sponsor Supré for supplying the generous prizes!
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We'd like to take a minute to wish all of our members an amazing winter holiday and a happy new year! It's been a good year for us at LB and we are so proud to announce that your daily looks now reach a total worldwide viewership of 4 million monthly unique visitors, which is double the 2 million uniques we were at one year ago in December 2009!
Thank you so much for sharing your creativity and making LOOKBOOK.nu the #1 online street style community in the world. We look forward to making LB even better in 2011 so that our talented members will have ever greater opportunities to influence and be discovered by our always growing audience.
Happy holidays!
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Over the weekend we added a zoom function to the "thumbs" view on LB's Hot & New pages, and basically anywhere you see thumbnails. When you move your mouse over a thumbnail, it will automatically zoom in to show a slightly larger photo. You can also hype the look, or go to the author's profile directly!
Some of you complained that the thumbs were too small to see clearly and we heard you. Hopefully this makes things a little better!
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We are testing out a new Notifications feature on LB which lots of you have requested for quite some time!
When logged in, you can now find a "Notifications" tab in the upper-right menu that will let you know about new fans, comments, and hypes you have received. The goal is to keep you informed of what has been happening to your looks and your LB profile since the last time you logged in.
This is a very early release, so leave your feedback and let us know your initial thoughts and suggestions!
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We asked you to post your Halloween costumes this past Sunday for our first ever Halloween Costume Day Contest, and you guys responded with an unbelievable amount of clever, creative, & awe-inspiring Halloween looks. Thank you to everyone who participated! I hope you guys had as much fun as we did browsing everybody's costumes.
It was so hard to choose our favorite Halloween looks that we ended up picking 4 total winners, rather than just 3. We chose 2 girl costumes and 2 guy costumes that blew us away . Congratulations to the grand prize winners who will be receiving $100 USD Visa Gift Cards (and free HYPE stickers!) from yours truly, the LB team. We are also sending $20 Starbucks Gift Cards (and free HYPE stickers) to 15 of our favorite runner ups as well!
Grand Prize $100 Visa Gift Card Winners
Brittany W. as Alice
Veronika B. as Wednesday Addams
Bobby Raffin as Pablo the Pinata
Adam Gallagher as Willy Wonka
Runner up $20 Starbucks Gift Card Winners
Ninjaintherun Kalahari as Slash
Sara Smith as the house from Up
Margaret Lin as Hello Kitty
Katy Seibel as The Birds
Breanne S. as Where the Wild Things Are
Sugar Darling as Katy Perry's California Girls
Tim M as Vintage Candyman
Laura Allard Fleischl as Gothic Dead
Jenn B. as a Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Marcella L. as Lovely Bones
Bobby Hicks as the White Rabbit
Keiko Lynn as Alice
Kelsey M. as Highlighter
Nadja Seale as Murder, She Wrote
Karl Philip Leuterio as Sinful Sid
If you were one of the winners, you will be contacted soon for to arrange shipping and details :)
It was extremely hard to choose winners because you guys posted so many great costumes. If you didn't win, we can't wait to see what you think up next year. Thanks so much everyone, hope you had a fantastic Halloween!
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LB HALLOWEEN COSTUME DAY CONTEST
UPDATE 11/1: The Halloween Contest has ended!
Thanks so much everyone for posting so many fantastic outfits! We are reviewing them now and will make a follow up post with the winners shortly so stay tuned.
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UPDATE 10/31: The Halloween Contest is now live!
Please note: to make your costume easy for us to find, please be sure to include the word "Halloween" somewhere in your title! Also, be sure to post your Halloween look up before midnight, 11:59 PM Pacific time on 10/31 to be eligible for the $100 gift cards. Good luck everyone and Happy Halloween!
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This Sunday Oct. 31 is going to be our first ever Halloween Costume Day on LOOKBOOK.nu!
We want to see all your crazy/sexy/cool Halloween costumes, and this year we want them posted on the site all on the same day!
So be sure to snap some LB-worthy head-to-toe costume photos before you go out tonight and tomorrow, and then post your Halloween look up this Sunday only! (Don't be early, and don't be late!)
We will be scouring the site for awesome costumes and will award $100 Visa Gift Cards to our favorite 3 Halloween looks.
We will also be sending free HYPE stickers to notable runner ups.
Have a happy and crazy (but safe) Halloween!
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Just a quick announcement to go over all the recent contests we've recently launched for you all. Be sure to peep all of our currently running contests at http://lookbook.nu/contests and submit your entries before the deadlines!
MNG by Mango "Show Us Your Fall Look" Contest*
Win a $300 gift certificate for MNG by Mango at JC Penney.
Contest ends on: November 1, 2010
Enter here: http://lookbook.nu/mngfallcontest
*Unfortunately due to legal restrictions, this contest is only open to members in the United States only =(
Sebastian Re-Shaper "Re-shape Your Hair" Contest
Style your hair in 2 ways & win a Sebastian Professional prize package.
Contest ends on: November 15, 2010
Enter here: http://lookbook.nu/reshapeyourhair
Sony® PIIQ™ "Music Inspires Fashion" Contest
Show us your music-inspired look & win free Sony® PIIQ™ headphones.
Contest ends on: November 19, 2010
Enter here: http://lookbook.nu/musicinspiresfashion
Hope to see tons of entries from you guys. Good luck!
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Based on everyone's feedback we have just rolled out some new changes to our homepage feed.
1. Larger images
We upped the image previews from 200 pixels wide to 240 pixels wide. We feel that this size strikes the right balance between being able to see more detail in the photos, and being able to see more than just one story at a time.
2. View filters
We added FILTERS for everyone so that you can choose to see exactly what they want to in their feed, and none of what you don't.
3. Privacy Settings
For those of you that are more shy and don't want your hypes, comments and/or who you fan showing up in your fans' homepage feeds, you can edit this in your settings now.
4. Home button added to main menu
We added a little home button tab to our main navigational menu on the left of "HOT" when you are logged in. This will make it easier to go to your home page when you want to see what's new.
Hopefully this makes the homepage much more usable for everyone. Let us know what you think!
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UPDATE 9/25 @ 8:01 PM: Oops! We were busily fixing some of the bugs that popped up with this release and ended up *accidentally* clearing everyone's homepage feed...sorry! If your feed looks rather empty, it's not a bug, it's because everyone's feed got reset just a few moments ago, so you'll need to wait a bit longer for new activity to start showing up. Thanks for everyone's honest feedback by the way. We are listening to all your suggestions!
We have just released a brand new version of the LB homepage! It is still a work in progress but we would love to hear what you guys think. Find it by clicking the "home" link in the upper right hand menu when you are logged in.
The old homepage only showed looks by people you "fanned." For most people, unless you fanned a ton of people, it didn't update or change very often. Also if you subscribe to the email digest, the old homepage showed you nothing new.
The new homepage now shows you a lot more. You'll be able to see not just the looks your favorite people have posted, but also:
1. what looks they have hyped,
2. what looks and profiles they have commented on,
3. who they have "fanned," and
4. updates to their profile.
We understand that you guys may have mixed reactions, so I wanted to talk about why we think this change is a huge step forward for the LB community.
"LOOKBOOK.nu is becoming Facebook!!! What gives?"
We admit it--when designing LB's version of the "news feed" we definitely borrowed elements from our more famous older cousin in the social networking world. But our goal is not to create another Facebook. LOOKBOOK.nu has never tried to be a "Facebook of fashion"—we've always been about one thing--showcasing amazing content from around the world and allowing people to discover it.
One of the things we've heard most often from our members is "I wish there were ways beyond the HOT page and the NEW page to discover great looks."
This is one of our answers.
Here's how we think about it: when you "fan" someone, it means that you hold their style AND their taste in high esteem. They are people you already admire and respect. What better people to recommend looks and people to check out?
Now, when a user hypes a look, all that users' fans will then see it in their feed too, which can sort of cause a chain reaction. Perhaps, it could even drive significant traffic to the users' that are awesome but are being overlooked. Now, a user with a following on LB can really become an influential "tastemaker," i.e. someone who not only gets attention for their own looks, but also helps the looks and people he/she likes get more exposure as well.
"What if I don't WANT my fans to see who I am hyping, commenting, and fanning?"
We have always believed that looks and people who can inspire others deserve more exposure. This why we think that making your hypes, comments, and fanning activity more like "recommendations" to your fans will not only increase the influence you have on the site, but will ultimately help the entire community discover awesome new looks and people they woudln't have seen otherwise.
That said, privacy settings (that will be much much simpler than Facebook's) are definitely on the way. So please don't worry!
In the meantime, if you guys have any sort of feedback or thoughts (please try to be constructive) we are more than happy to listen!
Thanks so much for reading all this and for your continued support!
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