Comments on: Bloggers With Influence

By: Dirt

Dirt — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 06:21:37 +0000

Has anyone checked out Emily from Cupcakes & Cashmere? Gitl is like a walking advertisment…she even designed a bag with Coach *gag*

By: Sister Wolf

Sister Wolf — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:56:13 +0000

Susie B – Hahahaha, no you don’t but sorry that photo implicates you. It’s good to hear your thoughts on this subject. And I agree with most of them. As for sheep-like readers, I think they do exist but that’s not your problem, and I’ve never seen you try to market yourself to them.

You and your blog are kind of sui generis (if i may be pretentious enough to use Latin.) Style Bubble can’t be compared to anything else. It’s in a class of it’s own.

And if I’m looking for pretentiousness, I’d never choose Style Bubble.

By: susie_bubble

susie_bubble — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:04:59 +0000

I’m catching up on SW time – I’m no longer shacked to my RSS reader and unfortunately read blogs sporadically. Huge bouts of SW do keep me firmly in check though, illustrated by posts such as these.
First up, thanks to Dru, E, Joy.D, The Real Andrea, HelonWheels, Elena Abaroa, Joy.D, Lady Smaggle and of course Sister W for the mentions.

As for RedHeadFashionista and Pretentious Bloggers… I can’t really write any other way, especially about fashion – if this is perceived as pretentious, so be it.

I wholeheartedly agree with Hokey about Layers & Swathes – best new blog to come about in a while…

I’m late to all of this but it’s an ongoing discussion that seems to pop up a lot now and it seems silly for it to be so one-sided and not to have the so-called influential bloggers speak back. I’m not going to go all-guns a-blazing with a defense mechanism because to be honest, the idea of a blog as a brand is an iffy thing. I’ll admit that I partake in projects on the back of this notion but I’m not sure I myself fully believe that it exists. Influence is such an immeasurable thing even in a world where click-throughs, impressions can be measured and goes beyond a blogger linking to a Topshop product and it racking a few sales. It can also be arbitrary on some levels too with seemingly ‘smaller’ blogs also being influential in their own ways.

I’d like to think that readers read blogs with a pinch of salt, just like they do with all media because like it or not, blogs along with magazines, TV and radio are becoming agenderised. This isn’t a bad thing for ALL blogs (and I mean on every level from the personal ones to the ones attached to corporate media companies…). But then again, even when blogs didn’t come with an agenda, did the sheep-like reader ever exist? I’m not so sure… or at least…I hope not!

I never claimed to be a true informant and certainly no ‘EXPERT’ and I think it’s dangerous territory to throw those words about when readers with smarts can quite easily come back and haunt you….

Even if it’s not always consistently two-way, I’d like to think there’s an implicit understanding between readers and myself – that I’ll fuck up, get it wrong sometimes, that what I think isn’t golden, that what I do may not be right, that what I recommend won’t be everyone’s cup of tea and that I’ll try to be as open as possible to let them know what the dealio is if the involvement of those bloody evil brands etc come up (sadly, I’m also getting sick of the ever-tiresome ‘This post is paid for, ISN’T IT – admit it, you WENCH!’ accusations but I’ll ALWAYS reply back with a sensible “No this isn’t…” – nothing worth getting all barmy about…!)

God I looked so blank and deranged in that panel photo…

By: hokey

hokey — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:54:48 +0000

How about, instead of giving more airtime and pr to these blogs which clearly don’t need it (not too denigrate any of them, I’m just saying, they hardly need our praise, though some perhaps do need our pity), how about we create a list of new interesting, insightful, cleverly written, not-only-about-fashion blogs that could do with some more influence?

I for one am a big fan of Yoruba Girl Dancing and Layers & Swathes. The latter is fashion, the former isn’t really but they’re both good reads. With your influence SW I reckon we could form a brilliant list of new pretenders/usurpers…

By: Aja

Aja — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:52:05 +0000

You know, I was just about to say “I can’t see Jane ever endorsing some stuff she wouldn’t wear herself” and then I read the comment about her JC Penny video and that thought went straight out the window! Jane, really?

By: RedHeadFashionista

RedHeadFashionista — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:21:41 +0000

@Hel awwww thanks.

By: RedHeadFashionista

RedHeadFashionista — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:21:22 +0000

@Pretentious Bloggers – I do too, but mainly because she runs rings around people like Jane who claim to be aware of brands. She knows so much about her chosen subject it scares me and she’s fully immersed in it. Naturally she’s a bit pretentious, but she is pretty good at what she does.

By: Nat

Nat — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:03:04 +0000

Im bored by the majority of fashion blogs I started to read 2 years ago as they have done nothing to keep my interest or keep me reading. That is not to say they are crap as such; maybe my needs have changed and Im looking for something different. The only blogs I like to read now are LLG who doesnt just post about fashion and will rarely do “outfit” posts but is highly intelligent, informative and on the whole interesting, Sophy Robson / Wah Nails / Beauty blogs as I am interested in working in the nail industry, and our beloved SW of course. As much as I would love to say that I keep up reading KOS and Style Bubble as these were blogs I loved a year ago, I find that they have perhaps gone a little stale for me.

By: Lady Smaggle

Lady Smaggle — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:40:21 +0000

I think Susie Bubble is fab, I think Tavi is quite a talented little writer and I think you, Sister Wolf are fantastic.

I read each of these sites and feel entertained and fulfilled by all of them.

By: Diana

Diana — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:57:24 +0000

“You can totally buy my love.” Gala Darling, go fuck yourself.

The irony is this uneducated Paris Hilton trust fund fraud is HERSELF scammed. Gala Darling falls for expensive products that obviously don’t work, like her regime of 4000 vitamins and Bubbly Juggly anti-sag boob creams and face serums and horoscope EFT tapping sessions. It is a shame that Gala praises these shit products and misleads young girls to thinking they will fix their lives.