LOOKBOOK.nu |
collective fashion consciousness. |
LOOKBOOK.nu is an international social experiment in style. It was inspired by street fashion blogs like the Sartorialist as well as "What are you wearing today?" forum threads across the internet.
LOOKBOOK.nu is an invite only community. If you're interested in joining, sign up with your email here and we'll notify you when invites become available in the future.
To bring together diverse, aesthetically talented and open-minded people from around the world and showcase the best in international street fashion.
A "look" is a user-submitted photograph that displays their outfit, and, if they choose, a description of what they're wearing and where they got it.
Login and click the "POST A LINK" tab on the main navigation menu.
Yes, actually, there are 10 of them:
You can visit the "NEW" section to discover recently added looks. If you see entries you like, vote them up by clicking the corresponding "HYPE" button.
The HOT page is sorted based on popularity determined by the community. Users vote for looks by clicking the "HYPE" button underneath each entry's score box. Once a look has earned a critical mass of "hype", it becomes popular and jumps to the "HOT" page.
When a look is "hyped" the person who posted it is rewarded with a karma point. In the same way that popular outfits are voted to the top, the users who post them get increases in karma. Every LOOKBOOK.nu user affects one another's karma equally, and this is how members reward each other for posting looks that are stylish, unique, and interesting.
A user's total karma divided by the number of looks he or she has posted. The higher a user's average karma, the greater the user's reputation. On the NEW page, the Karma Filter uses average karma to determine how often each look is shown.
When the Karma Filter is turned on, the NEW page shows more looks by users who have established a strong, positive reputation within the community (as indicated by high average karma per look) and less looks by users who have not. Due to the high volume of looks added each day, the karma filter was added to ensure that looks from established and proven users are given greater priority and protected from being buried too quickly by looks from new (unproven) users. The Karma Filter can optionally be turned off to show looks posted by all users, regardless of their average karma.
NOTE: Looks from users with lower reputation will still be visible, but shown to a smaller portion of the community. If you are a newcomer with no established reputation yet, your look will still be visible to a significant portion.
Your reputation on the site helps to determine how often your look is shown to the community. The visibility of each look you post is calculated based on your reputation (i.e. average karma) as well as the hype each individual look receives. Looks by users with medium to high average karma will be visible to the entire community.
To ensure that each look gets proper exposure, all looks will still be shown to a substantial portion of the community even if the author has low average karma.
To build a good reputation on LOOKBOOK.nu, post high quality photos that you are proud of and show us outfits that display your personal style at its very best. You can maximize your chances of receiving karma by posting clear (not blurry), well-lit, and not-excessively-photoshopped photos.
You are most likely viewing the New page with the Karma Filter on. The Karma Filter is programmed to show looks by users with high average karma more frequently than users with low average karma. You can turn the karma filter off to see looks from all users, regardless of their average karma.
We don't show which users have hyped a look in order to encourage as much hyping as possible. This way, users who are less active on the site can still feel comfortable hyping anonymously. Those that want to make their love for your outfit publicly known, however, can either leave a comment or join your fanclub.
There is no down-voting (or negative hyping) because the purpose of the site is to promote a diverse and open-minded community. If you find an entry with spam, questionable content, or just has nothing to do with fashion, click the "flag" link within each entry and it will be flagged for possible removal.
You have complete control of the comments on your entries and you may flag or delete any spam, offensive, or negative comments. We will review all flagged comments for violation of our Terms of Service and ban offenders when necessary.
Just a guy and a girl hailing from San Francisco, CA who like art, fashion, and culture…though in one sense, if you are participating, you did too.
You can reach us at: hello [at] lookbook.nu