I really do believe, after much thought, that this will all die down within the next year and that the REAL wheat will be separate from the chaff….i.e. those with tenacity, patience and good quality content will prevail and whilst they may not have 100’s and 100’s of comments, they are garnering readership slowly and gradually, as well as being integrated into communities like these…. Jennine, The Coveted I think is a perfect example….

There’s no point in comparing stats, comments, media attention and I’ve learnt just to go about my own way and blog the way I want to blog, the way that makes me feel happy… a trite and cliched ending but it really is as simple as that….

Pretty models will always be hired to represent new products and clothing lines, because that’s what they get paid for – look pretty in front of the camera. And if “designing” a line brings money to the investor then that’s what they’d be hired for. Don’t worry about them, they drop out of sight as fast as the next one comes up.

Good writers, real or pseudo celebrities will always get the book deal, nothing new there, blogging is just another PR tool for them!

The Brianboys were always there, they just didn’t sit front row, but they were there at the VIP after-party you and me couldn’t get into anyway! But now it’s more fashionable and brings more attention to the brand if you feature the famous ones on front row. Tomorrow will be something else! Fashion always looks for new trends…

As to designers, for every successful designer, there are thousands that didn’t succeed, bloggers or no bloggers present! Do you have any idea how many talented fashion students, journalists, photographers graduate each year all over the world? I do! Thousands and thousands every year. I teach some fashion accessory design classes at Parsons in NYC and I see all the talent that comes out every year and goes to work for $30,000/year for that famous design house everybody loves so much!

Blogging is so easy it’s just another tool to get your work out there, but not the only way to make it! The successful designers already have the tools to make it big, $$, PR connections, family ties in the industry, or are good with building a real business from the ground up! Is that you? If it isn’t then don’t complain about not making it. If it is, then just do what you do best and try to do it better every day! You will succeed!

Oh yeah and I did get a book deal, not because of my blogging skills, but because I wrote a proposal and had countless meetings for about a year, wrote a sample chapter, went through a review process and about a year and a half later got a miniscule advance to write a 400 page textbook! That’s not easy either!

I started blogging because I have access to great talent and love giving them a platform to feature their work, and I am in front of the computer all the time anyway, so why not?

As to everybody else? Concentrate on what you do best! There are bloggers like you Jeannine, who are amazing at bringing people together, there are others who are great at styling and posing in front of the camera, and then there are the ones who are just popular no matter what! Who are you and what do you do best?
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