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do blog reportage but for me along with most of the bloggers i think it would have been criminal not to blog about the wonderful experiences we had no doubt the executives at chanel were counting on this unspoken social contract young and popular bloggers posting about this institution of fashion both lends chanel hipster credibility as well as garners relatively inexpensive and global marketing some like tyler laswell disparage the fashion style blogging phenomenon it s really sad that the fashion business has turned into a world of bloggers everyone has become so taken up with living in a world of immediate satisfaction nobody wants to wait for the beauty in the magazines where the editors truly do their homework and fact check everything the perspective that bloggers are sloppy with the facts and are more interested in self promotion and mass exhibitionism leads andrew keen to blame bloggers for transforming culture into cacophony in his book the cult of the amateur keen s description of blogging as cacophony hints at the conservative gender politics of blogging detractors denigrate blogging and their practitioners for not embodying the seriousness of purpose sensibility and rational self directedness that are perceived by the patriarchal and masculinist mainstream to be indicators of intelligence and proper forms of journalistic work that is to say bloggers imagined as self absorbed gossipy and superficial are silly because they are feminine a 2003 study done by perseus development a research firm and maker of software for surveys diminishes the cultural and social import of blogs by describing the typical blog as written by a teenage girl who uses it twice a month to update her friends perseus snide dismissal of bloggers demonstrates a blatant disregard for recent history in 2002 it was bloggers that forced trent lott to be taken to task for praising strom thurmond s segregationist history when too many politicians wanted to forgive and forget and in 2004 bloggers would again transform public discourse by discovering and making public the forged air national guard documents that launched rathergate and in 2006 gossip bloggers would take credit and be credited for the demise of tom cruise s star power and the transformation of hollywood s system of star production altogether according to r scott hall blog curmudgeonry is just a case of status quo maintenance the true reactionaries are those who want to stick to the old business model and keep plugging in the new and popular artists to feed that old hungry beast the true revolutionaries are hurtling over the legal and financial barriers that have always protected the old guard armed with technological sophistication that the old guard had long ago decided it did not need like hall many others view the rise of the fashion blogger in positive terms the presence of citizen journalists they argue reflect a democratization of fashion criticism in particular and the democratization of the fashion industry in general as the pulitzer prize winning fashion writer robin givhan puts it in an article in harper s bazaar the internet and weblog have enabled the average person too often estranged from fashion to take ownership of it pernet echoes givhan when she tells grashina gabelmann in her interview in sketchbook magazine blogging has democratized fashion the internet makes fashion available to anyone with a computer it does not matter where you live it is available to you instantly democratization is probably the most widely shared interpretation of the fashion style blogging phenomenon but does fashion style blogging really signal a uniquely radical moment in fashion history and is democratization really democratic does it matter to read our answers to these questions click on of sb part ii blog in the machine of democracy to jump to of sb part iii blog ambition click here to go back to on the fashion style blog intro click here posted by minh ha t pham at 9 00 am labels politics of blogging on the fashion style blog intro as stanley kowalski tells blanche dubois in a streetcar named desire we ve had this date with each other from the beginning and so it is with us and this specific post on the what and why of the fashion and style blog even before we began threadbared in 2007 we wondered why everyone it seemed to us had a fashion and or style blog diane pernet renowned fashion icon designer and photographer has a blog but so too does valerie steele the prolific fashion historian and director of the museum at the fashion institute of technology and 13 year old tavi gevinson a veteran in the fashion blogosphere and a fixture at new york fashion week among the regular staff at major news companies including the new york times the washington post the chicago tribune and the wall street journal is a fashion blogger or two robin givhan of washington post is a pulitzer prize winner the prevalence of asian fashion and style bloggers in the u s the u k australia and asia that continent of over 4 billion people and more than 2100 languages also did not escape our notice we have ruminated privately and informally on the fashion style blogging phenomenon its trends effects and problems even while posting about the moralism of anti counterfeit discourses the cultural politics and colonial histories of fashion photography and fashion editorials postcolonial aesthetics in africa racial sartorial profiling in the us and our divergent but equally impassioned modes of consumerism and sartorial philosophies but right now is a particularly opportune time to consider what is really going on with fashion and style blogging in the last few weeks we have seen the anticipation levels for one fashion blogger s book tour rise to rock concert pitch namely scott schuman s for the print version of the sartorialist the release of london based sketchbook magazine s inaugural issue a double issue on the fashion blogger with susie style bubble lau as its cover girl and numerous best of lists for fashion and style blogs compiled by media giants like telegraph and the chicago sun times as well as by peer fashion style bloggers such as fashionhippo and the sunday best fashion style blogging seems to be having a moment but what kind of moment is it in this three part series called on the fashion style blog of sb we explore fashion blogging what it is what it was and what it might be click here for of sb part i going postal click here for of sb part ii blog in the machine of democracy click here for of sb part iii blog ambition the question about the prevalence of asian fashion style bloggers is a complicated one that surely deserves its own post and requires much more research however one answer might begin with our good friend and super smart colleague thuy linh nguyen tu s theory of the incidence of asian americans as fashion designers in her forthcoming book the beautiful generation asian americans fashion design and the cultural economy of asian chic she persuasively argues that asian american designers are embedded within a broader history of labor and migration an excerpt from her manuscript without those crucial experiences and social connections forged in fashion school designers lacking a formal education have had to rely on other paths of skills acquisition and social networking for many asian americans the knowledges passed around and handed down from parents who often worked on the lowest rungs of the clothing industry were at least in the beginning quite crucial for it fostered in them a sense of ease and familiarity with the craft of fashion that made it possible for them to experiment with its forms even while tu incisively notes this education was a part of a larger effort to situate women appropriately with the family and the state not to enable them to pursue creative interests or entrepreneurial profits without more quantitative data and ethnographic research e g are there really a disproportionately larger number of asian fashion style bloggers how are we defining asian tu s answer helps to contextualize some of the roots and routes of asians in fashion posted by minh ha t pham at 8 50 am labels politics of blogging 02 november 2009 five minutes in heaven recently launched sketchbook magazine opened big with the thematically timely fashion blogger issue featuring none other than susie bubble as lushly illustrated cover girl a london based quarterly addressed to established and emerging creative talents in fashion design and culture with a focus on features photography and illustration sketchbook is a welcome addition to fashion s publishing world so of course it was wonderful to be interviewed by sketchbook for their blog check it out here we sound like big nerds posted by threadbared at 12 58 pm labels interview sketchbook more about us threadbared is an evolving collaboration between two clotheshorse academics to discuss the politics aesthetics histories theories cultures and subcultures that go by the names fashion and beauty with commentary on how clothes matter as well as book and exhibit reviews and interviews with scholars and artists threadbared considers the critical importance of taking clothes and the bodies that design manufacture disseminate and wear them seriously as an entry point into dialogue about the world around us we welcome queries relating to public comments invited talks commissioned essays and books films and videos for review on threadbared please email us at threadbared dot 75 at gmail dot com you can become a fan on facebook and get all the latest updates and news you can also follow us on twitter find us elsewhere commenting on everything from blackface fashion editorials to the politics of hijab threadbared has appeared on a wide range of other new media from salon racialicious jezebel muslimah media watch sociological images and women s news network to fashion focused outlets like no good for me style sample and sketchbook magazines here s some of the nice things that have been said about us stylish brainiacs no good for me academics and fashion seem as far apart as rush limbaugh and the nfl sports reference to prove my manliness but this blog makes it work the sunday best a great fashion blog run by two clotheshorse academics minh ha pham and mimi thi nguyen one of the smartest people i know it s a great mix of exuberance and analysis that takes seriously the larger oft ignored forces that always mediate our sense of style whether we care to acknowledge them or not hua hsu the atlantic even scientists love us threadbared is a blog by two junior faculty ladies with teaching and research interests in the politics of fashion and beauty they are pretty much spot on about everything particularly representations of race and class atoms arranged also threadbared blog is bananas awesome this blog is equally 1 on our fiancé es list because we are totally pomo like that the rejectionist threadbared collaborators mimi thi nguyen based outside of chicago scours thrift and vintage stores with reckless abandon nguyen situates her work within transnational feminist cultural studies with an emphasis on neoliberalism and humanitarianism war and empire a former zinester punk planet columnist and maximumrocknroll shitworker she has also published on punk and queer subcultures and is co editor with thuy linh nguyen tu of alien encounters popular culture in asian america duke university press 2007 minh ha t pham based in new york city and san francisco shops sample sales with a keen and discerning eye she writes about the ways in which national publics and polities are organized around traditional and new media that are increasingly shaped and limited by neoliberal discourses and policies focusing on the fashion media and the vietnamese american media both her projects are concerned with the complex and contradictory relations of communication technologies consumerism and capitalism pham also writes and speaks at academic and popular forums across the country below are some of the topics she addresses fashion consumerism campaigns e g fashion for america and democracy gender politics and blog studies the cultural politics of fashion style blogs focusing on the blogs of asian americans and british asians asian american designers in a period of multinational capitalism and multiculturalism the shifting relations of labor and capital in network television programs about fashion sound consumerism and citizenship on vietnamese american radio get to know us here is a rundown of our favorite and probably most representative posts thus far picturing politics on pride in his work blackface and the violence of revulsion art sneakers and borders teaching brief notes on the unreliable stories clothes tell tramp chic and the photograph my madras brings all the boys to the yard mind over malls or does academia hate fashion style icon billie jean from the archives you say you want a revolution in a loose headscarf history and the harem pant background color policing fashion in new york black is the new black the truth of lagerfeld s idea of china shopping with threadbared a conversation why i feel guilty when i don t blog no comment unfortunately our day jobs are such that we can t spare the time or presence of mind to either monitor or respond to comments frankly we probably shouldn t expend this much energy on line in the first place updated january 2010 posted by threadbared at 9 00 am newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom about us we are two clotheshorse academics who write teach and speak about the politics of fashion and beauty minh ha t pham based in new york city and san francisco shops sample sales with a keen and discerning eye she writes about the ways in which national publics and polities are organized around traditional and new media that are increasingly shaped and limited by neoliberal discourses and policies focusing on the fashion media and the vietnamese american media both her projects are concerned with the complex and contradictory relations of communication technologies consumerism and capitalism mimi thi nguyen based outside of chicago scours thrift and vintage stores with reckless abandon situating her scholarly work within transnational feminist cultural studies she writes about neoliberalism and humanitarianism war and empire a former zinester punk planet columnist and maximumrocknroll shitworker she has also published on punk and queer subcultures find out more about us you can also write to threadbared dot 75 at gmail dot com follow this blog with bloglovin fashion beauty a la allure garconniere bits and bobbins counterfeit chic fashion for writers fashion incubator fashion intelligentsia fashionist fatshionista footpath zeitgeist good morning midnight kingdom of style le coil no good for me nothing elegant nypl fashion archives pour porter selvedge magazine style bubble style rookie 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