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...Internet is making things tougher for most trend watchers, at least one trend spotter is turning its raging information flow to her advantage, using it to power the turbines of cool. Her name is DeeDee Gordon, and she's a co-founder, with partner Sharon Lee, of a new trend-spotting firm called Look-Look. Gordon has a certain notoriety in the trend-spotting industry: she was the original cool hunter, the subject of the famous 1997 New Yorker profile. Gordon and Lee both used to work for Lambesis, but by 1999 they got impatient with the way things were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trends: The Quest For Cool | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

...Gordon and Lee left Lambesis and founded Look-Look. Instead of canvassing their sources by hand, in person, they built up an army of teenagers that constantly feeds them information online. They estimate that they have 20,000 contacts, with the number expanding 500 to 1,000 a month. "It was all grown organically," says Gordon proudly, as if she were surveying a vast hemp farm. "We spent a great deal of money and up-front time handpicking these people based on peer-to-peer recruitment. It's a very different methodology from the way that most people gather bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trends: The Quest For Cool | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

CURBYS (creative urban youths) work as artists, photographers, musicians, filmmakers, designers, stylists and writers. What Gordon Gekko and Bret Easton Ellis were to yuppies, Wes Anderson and Dave Eggers are to CURBYs. They consume culture almost as fast as they create it. Enright's book implores readers to "read, watch and listen to anything you can get your hands on" and suggests 106 magazines ranging from Thrasher to IN STYLE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Of A moniker | 8/28/2003 | See Source »

When it comes to relations between Hong Kong and its neighbors in Guangdong, "one country, two systems" adds up to three times the bureaucracy. A perfect example is the long-delayed Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai bridge. First proposed by Hong Kong developer Gordon Wu in 1983, the bridge was mired in cross-border politics for years, but SARS and a lengthy economic slump in Hong Kong have changed that. Last week, officials from Hong Kong and Guangdong announced that a bridge-building task force would meet at the end of August?the last step before seeking a formal go-ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spanning the Pearl Delta | 8/10/2003 | See Source »

...Officers responded to a report of a stolen bicycle at Gordon Hall on Shattuck Street...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HUPD POLICE LOG | 7/18/2003 | See Source »

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