THE BLOGGING JOURNALIST

Vogue to Feature Fashion Bloggers in March Issue

“Vogue is charmed by these upstart fashion bloggers, but would prefer things didn't out of control,” writes The New York Observer’s Molly Fischer in a December 11, 2009, post. See “They Shoot Bloggers, Too.”

Fischer notes that, “The magazine recently did a shoot with The Sartorialist, Bryanboy, Face Hunter, and others, reports Women's Wear Daily.  All of them were asked to sign confidentiality agreements, allowing Vogue to dodge the copious, tacky publicity that would have resulted from a bunch of excited semi-outsiders who enjoy sharing experiences with the internet.”

For the Women’s Wear Daily post, see “Cavalli Charm... Vogue's Blogger Shoot... Google's Achilles Heel...” , which was posted on December 11, 2009.

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‘…The Front Row Was Just All Bloggers…’

New York Magazine’s The Cut fashion blog quotes Scottish designer Christopher Kane as saying the following about bloggers at fashion shows:

It’s a bit mad, isn’t it? It feels like it’s happened all of a sudden and at some shows this season the front row was just all bloggers.

For the rest of the quote, you’ll have to read “Christopher Kane Thinks the Blog World Is a ‘Bit Mad’”.

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Fashion Houses Making Room for Bloggers

“Fashion brands, increasingly aware of the power of bloggers, are making room for them in their front-row seats to try to grab consumers before they visit their stores,” according to Reuters correspondent Marie-Louise Gumuchian.

“For years,” she wrote in a December 2, 2009, post from Milan, Italy, “traditional houses have shunned the Internet, seeing it mostly as a place for those in search of bargains.”

“But as younger buyers and working women are set to replace aging customers as the main luxury consumers, the Web and its social networking sites represent strong prospects for growth.”

It’s called following the money. For more, please see “From catwalk to laptop, fashion houses embrace web.”

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Fashion Blog

"With its new blog, blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/, which went up this week, the august" Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute[in New York City in the United States] "is also acknowledging that traditional fashion criticism is over," according to Wall Street Journal Online reporter Rachel Dodes in a December 20, 2007, post.

It's time that new voices emerge in this and other areas of contemporary life and culture. There are too many tastes to have one or two trendsetters. Thanks to blogging critics at Glamour, Vogue and other traditional publications have competition.

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