I'm cute!

How does that saying go? Once a fame whore, always a fame whore.

2basic bitchz n blogerz

"Gucci Gucci, Louis Louis, Fendi Fendi, Prada
Basic bitches wear that shit so I don't even botha"

How to discredit yourself (and your work!) in 5 seconds

A blogger's existential crisis

"Blogs are ridiculous; they're just mood boards - unless you are Tavi [Gevinson, of Style Rookie]."
- Alexa Chung in Vogue UK

Bloggers: is your world shattering?

On growing up with blogs.

Kind of creepy when you can see that a blogger is "evolving." Or, you know, excessively watching reruns of My So Called Life....over and over and over again and just copying what they see.

Guess who?

This blog is Galliano approved.

This is why photographers should never speak.

I've let that February New York Mag piece on lovebird bloggers, Garance Dore and The Sartorialist, linger... but I always come back for a couple reasons.

I admit, two bloggers with similar mission statements and similar aesthetics that start dating, well, yes, what an adorable concept! But there is something so vapid about these two. From one of their many pathetic quotes:

“I was a big fan,” says Doré. “Sometimes when I was looking at Scott’s pictures, I wanted to be with him. I wanted to be on his shoulder.” Doré looks at Schuman with a bit of a blush. “I don’t know if I ever said that to you. But it’s because of the light.”

Their narcissism, that picture, how he has now just sexualized her style and the usual man shaping a woman are all just disgusting. The truth is, he's in love with changing her image. She's in love with him giving her an image. And together they are in love with themselves. Yuck.

Fashion blogging 101

When Bloggers Make Videos

I guess it makes sense. Cute clothing = no personality.

"Erin has a passion for what she does and is not just some mallrat with a camera"

Amanda put this very well in the comments of Calivintage's introduction to Modcloth:

I never really understood what blogging is all about (even now), despite faithfully reading through Modcloth’s every day. And I especially didn’t know that it could be a full time, PAYING, job (?!?!). What does it mean to get “sponsorships” and how do you make money by blogging about fashion???

oh hey rumi, anonymously defending yourself

Thanks to Knight Cat who has painted a very realistic look of what Rumi Neely looks like and what she does on her spare time when trolling the internet!

Oh no.. Blogger models are trying to cross over into the "mainstream." I hope this isn't a new trend.



Does Natalieoffduty have good pipes? Is she trying too hard? Can you see her on American Idol?

The Sell Outs

A lot of fashion bloggers are turning into "businesses" these days. Giveaways, promotions, advertising rates and now commissioning models to photograph their overpriced clothing.

Now that Zooey Deschannel copy cat, Liebemarlene, is capitializing on her web traffic, I feel like she has totally lost her touch. Is it me or does she wear the same things everyday? Her model is really..boring, no "je ne sais quoi." Why did she change her lo-fi, one man job blog into a blatant self-promoting, name dropping domain. I really hope other blogger girls don't start to venture into business making, we have enough girls already trying to support their shopping addictions as it is.

What happened to the golden days of blogging? When it wasn't about your photograph plastered all over your website, when you weren't rallying people to buy your items?