Spreading the Fashion Love
Abby Becker - Staff Writer
March 15, 2010
Filed under Features
In this economy, it is hard for the average shopaholic to satiate her desire for shiny shoes, sparkly purses, and the season’s latest trends. A hopeful alternative for these desperate shopping lovers is to peruse a multitude of fashion blogs-perhaps the next best thing to actually shopping.
Teen Vogue publishes several blogs on its website on a range of subjects all relating to fashion and the fashion industry. Andrew Bevan, author of Style Blogger within Teen Vogue magazine, gets the latest information regarding up and coming designers and preparations for spring fashion week.
Also within Teen Vogue’s website are blogs featuring new music, beauty products, and top designers. Not just a clothing-obsessed site, these blogs are ideal for anyone who appreciates what occurs behind the blinding lights of the runway.
Contrary to Teen Vogue’s blogs, Café Fashionista reads like a conversation from the author, Erika Sorocco, to a best friend who shares a mutual desire to make the world a little more fashionable.
“I have been writing for as long as I can remember. It has always been a dream of mine to have my very own magazine,” said Sorocco
Due to limited funds, blogging was the next best alternative. Sorocco sweetens her entries with terms of endearment and quirky quotes from fashion icons that are sure to charm any reader. Entries vary from advice on finding budget friendly high-fashion look-alikes to exposing delicious coffee shops and inspiring music.
“I find that the inspiration for almost everything that I write can be traced back to a melody or song lyric that I have heard at some point in time,” said Sorocco.
She advises aspiring fashion bloggers that “the key to success in the world of blogging-whether fashion or otherwise-is being unique.”
April Johnston, senior, has found her unique niche in the fashion blogging world. Her blog, Color Me, stands as an example that inspiring fashions can be found in the halls of Westminster and is not restricted to designer frocks on the catwalk.
“I had really gotten into fashion at the time. I felt like I had a lot to say,” said Johnston on the origin of her blog.
“It kind of progressed from finding fashion oddities to bigger pieces. It really took off with a daily section on Mr. Vass,” said Johnston.
Johnston’s “Tie of the Day” section in her blog documented each tie that Bob Vass, former Upper School English, wore during her time in his class. As any “Vassite” will clearly recall, the parade of creative, question-causing ties was never-ending.
“It has kind of “died” due to time,” said Johnston on the current state of her blog. She hopes to start another blog in her upcoming college years that combines art and fashion.
These blogs are for all the girls who dream of being in the front row of New York Fashion Week, for those who simply love the creativity and individuality expressed in the fashion world, and for those who truly believe as Sorocco does that “life is a runway.”
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