Fashion's Mean Girls
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 8:55AM Tavi, Tavi, Tavi, you have officially made it! You now have the Independent reporting how fashion writers are fed up with you and bloggers like you getting preferential seating and gifts from designers during fashion week.
John Galliano and Tavi at his show during Paris Fashion Week (click on pick to go to full Independent article
You have managed to obtain in months what takes many fashion editors, writers, buyers and celebrity years to achieve. I think your novelty has worn thin with the fashion set and now they are turning on you.
Below to the right an excerpt from Jezebel, a tweeted pic of Tavi and the bow she wore at the Galliano show pissing off a Grazia fashion reporter because she was annoyed that it obstructed her view. Tavi took to her blog to post a comment in response to defend her choice to wear the ill-seated bow.
Bow-Tweet (click on the picture to read entire Jezebel article)
Tavi in your defense I believe you are only utilizing the tools of technology to your advantage. You took the platform of blogging, were able to grab an audience and turn it into something popular. I truly don't think you set out to steal anyone's seat at fashion week, swag or their thunder. I think this all was a happy accident, you became a phenomena because of your age and it now threatens writers lively hoods, you simply make them nervous for their jobs.
To the writers out there who are peeing themselves because they realize bloggers are spilling over into their territory there is only one thing you can do. Adapt to the world of technology or become extinct, it's a simple evolution of species, "Darwinism". Because if you don't you will be left behind, just look what happened to the music industry. Oh, and stop picking on a twelve year old, it just reeks of a "Mean Girls" mentality and pure desperation.
Do you think writers have something to fear from bloggers? Post your comments below.



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