The Fashion Blogs
Manolo says, Ayyyyyy, the Times of the New York they have done the article on the fashion blogs! And there is the picture of the Manolo’s internet friend the Barneys Girl, and she is indeed most beautiful and super fantastic.
With names like Fashionologie, Kiss Me, Stace, Shoewawa and Now Smell This, the more popular fashion blogs are compelling enough that “to ignore them is to run the risk of seeming out of touch,” said Brandon Holley, the new editor in chief of Jane, the young women’s style magazine. Readers identify with bloggers’ idiosyncratic, rebellious voices, said Ms. Holley, who has added two online diarists to her stable of contributors. The blogs, which are updated weekly, daily and sometimes hourly, are a platform uniquely well suited to fashion news, she added.
“Fashion moves so fast, ” Ms. Holley said, “that readers find the blogs keep up better than even the tabloids like Us Weekly.”
Writing with a candor not often glimpsed in the pages of that celebrity weekly, or in W, InStyle or Harpers Bazaar, bloggers form an opinionated, informed and spirited community. They may be a long way from displacing Vogue as a fashion authority, but they are steadily gaining clout with consumers and marketers.
“In coming months we can expect that fashion blogs are probably going to have the same kind of influence that we see in widely read blogs about gadgets and high tech toys like BoingBoing,” said Bob Wyman, the chief technology officer and a founder of PubSub, a search engine that offers a weekly rating of a blog’s popularity based in part on the number of links that appear in the content and also the number of postings.
This it is exactly what the Manolo said many months ago in this very blog.
The Manolo he is confident in predicting that the fashion blogging, it is only in its infancy, and that it will grow in the importance over the coming two or three years. Indeed, look for more of the fashion industry insiders to begin their own blogs.
Of the course, this it was not the especially prescient prediction, but the Manolo he takes the pride in it nonetheless, and he notes that indeed the fashion insiders, like the Beverly Feldman, they now have their own blogs.
This article by the Ruth La Ferla, it is quite good, but, sadly, for some reason, the Manolo he was not mentioned. Happily, many of his internet friends they were!
September 9th, 2005 at 12:01 am
But the Manolo’s is the only super fantastic blog that I am compelled to read like the Bible that is Holy!!
September 9th, 2005 at 12:27 am
NY Times yet again proves itself to be crappy at covering anything. They failed to mention the Manolo! At this rate they are going downhill, soon I will be ashamed to wrap old fish in them!
September 9th, 2005 at 7:18 am
I just saw this announcement yesterday on http://www.librarystuff.net:
Today at PubSub, we released what I think is a really neat feature. Called Fashionable Blogs, it takes a list of fashion blogs collected by humans (in this case a fashion journalist with help from me) and, using PubStats, ranks them, with the most influential blog at the top.
http://www.pubsub.com/features/fashion/
The Manolo is currently number 5.
September 9th, 2005 at 7:45 am
Oh and I neglected to say, number 5 on the Pubsub list, number 1 in our hearts.
September 9th, 2005 at 9:21 am
Yes, the Manolo he is aware of the PubSub rankings, however he believes that perhaps they are not yet ready for the prime time, as they seem to underank the humble shoe blog of the Manolo.
For the example, the Manolo he is very highly ranked in the Truth Laid Bear’s Ecosystem, in the top 150 of all the blogs in the world for the traffic, and in the top 500 of all the blogs in the world for the links. Among the fashion blogs, only the Fug Girls rank higher in either of these catagories.
But, this all of this, of the course, it is the “inside the baseball” sort of the discussion, and truly secondary to the most important thing…the shoes!
September 9th, 2005 at 5:35 pm
Manolo, I found the article! Ay, it’s from yesterday! I cannot fathom why Ruth would not include you! My blog’s name was perhaps only mentioned to be included among the “funny” names. Le sigh! That list was called the more popular fashion blogs, at least. I hoped my “name” would have been mentioned, as well, at least, with some comment on my work.
September 9th, 2005 at 5:41 pm
“But, this all of this, of the course, it is the “inside the baseball” sort of the discussion, and truly secondary to the most important thing…the shoes!”
Ah, Manolo, you give my heart a chuckle. :-)
September 9th, 2005 at 7:34 pm
Shoelover is having her guy, ShoeGuy, put on his Doc Martens and go stomp that reporter for not including the Manolo in such a story………………a pox on the NY Times!
September 9th, 2005 at 8:30 pm
Manolo (and friends):
We are always looking for more blogs to add to the fashion list. In fact, we could even break the list down by types of fashion. Shoe blogs? Purse blogs? Model blogs? Whatever. If you (or one of your readers or fellow bloggers) would like to be the “editor” of the list (or even have your own list), let us know.
Steven Cohen
scohen@pubsub.com
September 12th, 2005 at 10:34 am
Barneys Girl is cute! I also agree that the Manolo deserved a mention in the NY Times.
September 14th, 2005 at 4:40 am
Pah! I shall read not this NY Times!