This week, I was happy to be featured in Imogen Lamport’s, Inside Out Style Blog for her Stylish Thoughts series. You can read my interview here. I like Imogen’s blog a lot. I don’t have time to read many other fashion blogs and typically just stay in my own lane and do my thing. However, having familiarized myself with her writing, expertise and commitment to delivering good content to her readers, I have great respect for Imogen and what she communicates. She is among the very few fashion bloggers who dispenses fashion advice and who is actually a seasoned fashion professional. Sadly, bloggers like us are more the exception than the rule. These days, anyone with a camera phone and access to the internet can call themselves a stylist, a fashion expert blogger or a professional. Amazing that this is all it takes. I thought you actually needed to know what you were doing.
This not to say that some unseasoned fashion people don’t bring something interesting to the table but, for every one that does, it seems there are dozens who don’t. Case in point: I don’t know if you caught this hilarious video from Jimmy Kimmel’s segment last week called Lie Witness News where a crew from the show interviewed a bunch of so-called fashionistas and “fashion professionals” during Fashion Week to give their opinions about designers who don’t exist. Even though it was impossible for these fashion experts to have heard about these designers, because they are fake, they gave their opinions anyway.
No, seriously, watch the video:
I think my favorite part, aside from watching that Eddie Munster kid’s eyes go into panic mode while trying to keep cool as he lied through his teeth, was when the kid with the yellow hair said, “It’s called fashion, look it up.” Hmm, before he gives this advice maybe he should do some of his own research.
The fashion blogging world is so weird. There is a great video called Take My Picture that explains the phenomenon so succinctly. I highly recommend viewing it.
It all just confuses me.
What do you think?
Great videos! I think I’m not courageous enough to set foot in NYC during Fashion Week! Your blog hits just the right notes: enough about the author so we can trust you and enough usable information so we can learn from you. (Oh and I loved the peek at your wedding picture on Imogen’s blog. Gorgeous!)
Thanks Renee! I used to go to the shows more but don’t really go anymore. I think it has turned into a circus and I’m really not that interested. Thanks for your kind words about my wedding photo. That was my uncle walking me down the aisle (I wonder how many people wondered if that was my husband!) and in his cut away suit he looked a bit like Spencer Tracy. If you want to see more and have 30 minutes to kill here is my entire wedding video. http://vimeo.com/1451549. Our anniversary is coming up on October 7h and the year we got married NY was having this odd heatwave and it wound up being like 90 degrees that day. Crazy!
Thanks for taking part Bridgette! I appreciate your kind words – and so agree with your Bridgetteisms – that just cos you love clothes and fashion doesn’t mean you are an expert on it. What is sad is how many people take all the bad advice out there from all the unqualified people.
Thanks Imogen! Isn’t it sad? It’s like the blind leading the blind.
Well you know what they say about opinions……….lol
I think the answer to your question is in the first few seconds of the videotape when Jimmy shows the ridiculous outfits that ‘real designers’ make and display at these fashion shows. Every time I watch one of these shows, or open up a fashion magazine, I think ‘Who dresses like this?” Real people, leading ordinary, real lives, want to see fashion for everyday living, and if the educated fashion world isn’t going to provide that for them, they turn to fashion bloggers who do not have a degree or any training in fashion. And we also want to see people who look like us , (not 115 lbs, 5 foot 10 women, but short women, chubby women, older women), wearing great, fashionable clothes so that we can get an idea of what those clothes would like if we wore them. Finally, were tired of fashion designers shoving trends down our throats that we just don’t want to wear…like Peplum… I can’t believe it’s back for a second season. No one wears it, no one likes it, get rid of it and stop trying to make us wear it. If designers do not want to see their occupation becoming extinct, they need to start listening to what the public wants.
Amen, Amy, couldn’t have said it better myself! In fact, I was interviewed about trends going out and I said the peplum with hopes that I can have that trend disappear forever!!! I can try, right?
Thank You so much for trying to rid the world of peplum!