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WEEK IN FASHION NO 4
The fashion hots and nots which got tweeted and blogged about this week.
Jan 25-Feb 02
Haute couture and low bitching At haute couture week, fingers were pointed not at couture but at fashion bloggers in front row. Well, teen-blogger Tavi actually, whose giant bow apparently blocked the sight of disgruntled fashion editors seated behind her. Brit broadsheet The Independent even felt it necessary to throw the gauntlet down at fashion bloggers at large with this scathing article. Note how no fashion blogger or even pro-blogger quote intrudes their fine piece of objective fashion journalism. Instead, Robert Johnson, associate editor at GQ can rant freely:
Bloggers are so attractive to the big design houses because they are so wide-eyed and obsessed, but they don’t have the critical faculties to know what’s good and what’s not. As soon as they’ve been invited to the shows, they can no longer criticise because then they won’t be invited back
I always thought ‘fashion fluff reporting’ is one of the main reasons why so many readers are swapping trad fashion press to subjective but truly passionate fashion blogs. Thankfully, NYT’s The Cut has a more balanced view.
But Pudri really nails that Tavi/blogger backlash thing down with this Suzy Menkes quote:
I hope, when she gets dumped so cruelly, as she will be, no doubt, by all the fashion people who’ve written her up, she can sort of cope with that.
noting:
…corruption of writers is a major problem of the fashion media system, not of bloggers alone, it is just more visible now.
My view: whether you’re a fashion editor, journalist, or blogger, the answer to this problem should always be:
© Play Hunter
If you are, that’s fine too, as long as you make it open and transparent.
UPDATE: The ever so great Business of Fashion blog has added very tasty food for thought(What The Independent didn’t tell us) on the subject.
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