Just a quick post on some recent work I’ve been doing. Those interested in fashion may have noticed that the past few weeks has seen the various Fashion Weeks being held in New York, London and latterly Milan (and with Paris rounding out the season starting tomorrow).

As part of the coverage, Elle UK launched a special Fashion Week microsite.

I developed the site, along with Jon Ramster and Jason Newington. The underlying data structure contains support for an effectively unlimited number of designers, fashion shows and images (OK, so the directory structure for the image server only supports 8,000,000 images…), and also allows almost any node to be ‘bookmarked’ by a user, all within the application. The site also has a comprehensive CMS behind it all, including FTP-based file upload (fashion shows generate a lot of images), which allows the Elle editors to update the site whenever they want, whilst also pulling in the latest available images from the latest shows.

So check out the Elle UK Fashion Week microsite and let me know what you think!

Update! In January 2008 I went back to Elle for a week to work on updating the site’s code for the new season of fashion shows. New design, new featrues, but the same underlying data structure as the previous incarnation, so all previous content is available in the new design.