Monthly Archives: June 2008

Fashion Research Institute Announces New Board Member

Posted on June 23, 2008 by | Comments Off

 

NYC, NY, June 23, 2008 – Fashion Research Institute, Inc. (FRI) has added a new member, Linda E. Amuso, to its Board of Directors.

 

Linda E. Amuso is president of Radford Surveys + Consulting, an Aon Consulting Company.  For 20 years, her practice has focused on executive and equity compensation strategies in the high technology and life sciences industries, working directly with senior management and Boards of Directors.  She is a frequent speaker on compensation and corporate governance issues.

 

Amuso has been responsible for building Radford’s consulting business and expanding the firm’s services globally.  In 1993, she co-founded iQuantic, Inc. (acquired by Buck Consultants in 2001), and was instrumental in building the organization into a national compensation consulting business.  She also led the expansion of iQuantic’s business into the life sciences industry, offering consulting and survey support.  At Buck Consultants, she held a number of leadership positions including Western Region Compensation Practice Leader, National Leader for the Biotechnology Sector, and Northern California Market Leader.

 

Amuso holds a bachelor of science from Ithaca College and a master of arts in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University.  She is based in San Francisco.

 

“Linda offers FRI a valuable combination of leadership, experience, and expertise.  She will further help our Board position the company for tremendous success in the highly competitive and volatile software industry,” said Shenlei Winkler, FRI’s CEO.

 

FRI’s board also includes Winkler; Theodore Buyniski, SVP, Radford Surveys & Consulting; Richard Fine, Ph.D., Founder, BioPredict; and Jeffrey Safran, President, Antares Information Technology, Inc.

 

Fashion Research Institute conducts research into technology-based initiatives and develops emerging technologies to sweepingly overhaul traditional fashion industry practices and methodologies.  FRI’s mission is to reduce the carbon footprint and change the environmental impact of the industry in ways that are sustainable, replicable, respectful of the practitioners, and meaningful for all stakeholders.  FRI maintains Shengri-La, a five-island complex in Second Life, and an OpenSim complex.  FRI is an IBM business partner, and has been working closely with top IBM architects and researchers over the last year to develop its virtual-worlds-based product design solution.

 

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Prim & Proper Waves Good-Bye

Posted on June 22, 2008 by | Comments Off

To my loyal customers:

Thank you so much for your support this week, at our final sale of the Prim & Proper line in Second Life tm.  As you know, I said I would donate all proceeds from this sale to Relay For Life, and I did that this morning.  You guys were great! Thanks to you, Prim & Proper went out with style – $317,200L worth of style from the sale alone.  Here’s the picture of me paying the proceeds of the sale ($317,200) to the official Relay For Life/American Cancer Society representative.

Plus, the Relay For Life kiosks generated an additional $22,678L, which was directly credited to the Relay For Life general fund. 

All told, Prim & Proper generated a grand total of $339,878 L or almost $1,300 USD.    How awesome!

Warm thanks to everyone who came out in support. You were great, and it has been a delight providing you with apparel and accessories these years past.

Shenlei Winkler,
CEO, Fashion Research Institute
Shenlei Flasheart in Second Life

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Charlot Dickins “By Request” June 20-July 27 in Shengri La Peace

Posted on June 20, 2008 by | Comments Off

Charlet Dickins in Shengri La Peace

Charlot Dickins will be showing her bespoke sculptured prim sculptures in the Fashion Research Institute’s corporate headquarters in Shengri La Peace.  This show will run from June 20 – July 27.  Artist’s Opening is 5-7 pm SLT, June 20.  Please come meet the artist and see this beautiful new show!  Artist Statement below.

Artist’s Statement:

“Charlot Dickins – by request”  

Charlot Dickins is the virtual alter ego of a really unkown real female person, who was fascinated with 3D for ages, but never could afford a decent software programme to try it out, nor did she see the use of making 3D builds -never to be watched by another eye of another living soul other than the ones she would be able to force-  which would be, moreover, a great burden to her hard disk, that at the time had the size of one Mb. So for the sake of her bank account, a pleasant family life and a longer computer life, she left the 3D dreams where they belonged and forgot about them for a long, long time.

At the sight of the Second Life building tool, the real woman behind Charlot Dickins went wild, the slumbering 3D urge awoke and a process of unchained, neverending and addictive prim twisting and turning had begun. Moreover,  Charlot Dickins does not like short sentences and therefore only writes very long ones, and just like Madcow Cosmos she likes to speak about herself in the third person.

This exhibition only shows sculptures Charlot Dickins made as a commission and gives you the opportunity to see them  in one building, no need to wear out your prim shoes and go and look for them all over SL – if you might happen to detect that strange need deep in your inner self- and  was an idea of, and made possible by, Callipygian Christensen, to whom she expresses her gratefulness. Thanks also go to Shenlei Flasheart of the Fashion Research Institute for providing the location.
 
 To keep a certain uniformity and prevent the public from thinking that Charlot Dickins is a very unstable minded, mentally disordered and inconsequent avatar, the sculptures that are shown here are made for only three commissioners: Alexandar Vargas, Intlibber Brautigan and Jade Vandyke, to whom she also expresses her gratefulness.
 
 Last but not least she would like to thank Carlbotd Truss, for giving her the opportunity to build as a very new born avatar and for supporting her building addiction.

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