No Newsflash Here: It’s No One’s Job to Tell You What to Buy
Magazines are not Bibles.
When it’s comes to voicing my opinion against old-fashioned or status quo thinking, I kind of am never done and can hardly reign myself in. I have something else to add in response to things people (here: a magazine professional) have been saying relating to the immature/amateur/style-star fight turned entire war of the fashion classes (Bloggers vs. Editors).
This quote by Anne Slowey, Fashion News Director for Elle, from a December article on The Cut was resurfaced on Stylist yesterday,
“People in fashion are constantly looking for the next unique boundary-pushing extreme thing to get excited about, but, you know, it’s like outsider art. What am I getting out of a 13-year-old’s opinion about fashion? How does that help me distill the collections? What am I supposed to be buying? That’s what an editor’s job at a magazine is.”
Uhh.. no.
I don’t even want to put magazine staff out of their other-tasks-of-that-job but… to them, fashion fans and all consumers, I will answer her above posed questions.
- Entertainment?
- It’s not supposed to? Who even cares? Just do it, you’re supposed to be a pro, and as for the rest of us, we can do it on our own too! It’s art, it’s personal!
- What you like as long as it looks good on you!
- No. it. is. not.
And as it pertains to retail buyers, perhaps the magazines do help but what would help more would be turning to actual or potential customers’ opinion – and aren’t those often fashion bloggers? Isn’t that one great thing that should come from the blogging phenomenon?
Magazine staffers, you give a great service, but it’s also in entertainment. I’m never going to use your pages as shopping lists for my Spring wardrobe.
Although I do read a lot more blogs and they can inspire me. Something to think about.
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