It also annoyed me because H&M aren’t exactly producing original fashion design…can you say CHLOE??

Maybe H&M should be looking to raise their own bar in terms of ‘design’.

Tricia, I did mean bloggers can be influenced. Personally, I get frustrated with so much of our lives being lived in big rooms with one guy talking and everyone else listening, which is kind of a variation of mainstream media: sitting in front of a TV set or whatever. In blogging, there’s room for discussion, we don’t have to see everything exactly the same, I can bring up a topic and someone could disagree with what I say or offer an alternate view and I could change my way of thinking (or dressing). It’s relational.

Of course I do aspire to improve, in my writing, my presentation, and my technical skills. Always working against that, since my time is finite, is the pull of seeing what other people are talking about.

Exciting, interesting and scary times…

Love this blog by the way Jennine, it just enforces the sense of community that us fashion bloggers need crave(okay, maybe I crave).

S xx

Obviously, those two pieces were written by two separate people, or they have a very poor editor.

But more importantly, this conversation has crossed many areas of interest for me.

I think when people think of a fashion medium, they immediately think of the glossy magazines, rich in arresting images, where you can’t tell what is advertising and what is editorial.

Many moons ago, rich content and wonderful 1st person essays about fashion, culture, art and anything else the writer experienced were common in big magazines such as Vogue. Read essays by Dodie Kazanjian.

These pieces of prose have given way to service pieces-top tn fall trends, best beauty buys for under $10, etc.

The beauty of blogs is that in one single blog, you can find a service piece, and a 1st person essay, and stream of consciousness or freewriting, or just one arresting image.

Yet people expect them to have the polish of a magazine.

But from a pure user perspective, your blog does have to be readable, scanable and interesting looking. People don’t read online the way they do print. So pretty and intelligent blogs get my attention. I can only handle so many” Look at this new IT bag” blog.