This is a fashion blog, right? That's what it's suppose to be. I don't posts every day. Mainly, because I'm busy. It's rather time consuming to make a half decent post daily. I've had this blog for about two years or so. I started out super psyched about being able to have my own website with my own content. I even learned how to screw around with html codes so everything can be JUST how I wanted it to be. The blog was suppose to force me to stay in touch with the industry. Kinda like an electronic scrapbook. Or like taping magazine tear-outs to your walls as a teen. It was really suppose to be for me and whoever shared the same interests.
Then came the reality: No one cares about your blog!
I went to other blogs that had a strong readership. They were all pretty neat blogs, but they were in competition with one another. And the adverts! That made me feel some kinda way. I couldn't knock them, could I? They were blogging for money and free stuff. Great perks, but not my driving force. Sounds too much like a job.
I figured that I would stick to my plan, and just improve over time.
Besides, I already bought the url.
As time went on, I became more and more disenchanted with everything. Blogging. The industry. Everything! What was the point?! Pretty much anyone who gives a sh*t about fashion, has a blog. We're all blogging about the same sh*t too. The fashion weeks roll around, and thousands of blogs are posting the same damn picture. All of us! Before, I maybe disillusioned myself with the idea that posting pics from NYFW made me special. I wasn't REALLY special, because I wasn't there. Every fashion show I've been to, it's been backstage with me really wanting people to acknowledge my eye coming in contact with their elbow (I'm 5'2" flat on my feet. 5'6" in most shoes).
The last few season, designers are invited regular ol' girls to shows. This bothers me because a lot of them don't even work in the industry, or have a journalism background. What the fux?! There are girls, and guys, busting their hump trying to get legitimate work in fashion journalism. I don't have a problem with someone like Claire Sulmers, from The
Fashion Bomb going to shows. She has the background. She's not a dabbler. But just random Jenny who copies and pastes like the rest of us??? I've never envisioned being at the shows unless I took the path of a buyer. Which I'm not really interested in (that's a whole separate post altogether). I prefer backstage. You actually get to SEE the garment.
Don't get me wrong. I know why designers invite bloggers. Money. But it just takes away from it's exclusivity. With the Project Runway, Top Models, and other tacky reality shows, everybody and their mama is into fashion now. You see them enrolling in school, only to drop before census week because they realize everything isn't solved in 60 mins with fewer commercial interruptions. They can't cut the mustard. And they don't like being challenged. They really just have great style, but not the talent. Which is okay, but they take up a lot of time and space.
Just dabblers!
*I'm using that word now after Barb's mom (from Big Love) called Bill a dabbler for wanting to bring on a 4th wife.
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