Famous for being famous.

That’s an issue that many people have with the likes of the Kardashian Klan or the Hadids, and pretty much why Vogue allies have no regard for fashion bloggers.

It has been a debate since the beginning of (fashion bloggers’) time, and was again prompted by harsh criticism of them during this year’s Milan Fashion Week – comments which immediately got fashion blogger’s backs up.

The Daily Best summarised the criticism of Vogue allies:

Paris Fashion Week thus began with a delicious feud between the self-serious Vogue staffers and the “bloggers who change head-to-toe, paid-to-wear outfits every hour” and, according to Sally Singer, Vogue.com’s Creative Digital Director, are “heralding the death of style.”

The disdain was laid on thicker this time around. Taking cues from Singer, one Vogue.com critic sniffed about the “horrible” scrum of bloggers and photographers outside shows and the “pathetic… desperate” women who dress up to be snapped. Another turned down her nose at the “sad” women who “preen for the cameras in borrowed clothes.”

Still another compared looking for street style stars in the “bought-and-paid-for (‘blogged out?’) front row” to “going to a strip club looking for romance.”

She found it all “ridiculous” and rather “embarrassing,” frankly, especially in the context of “what else is going on in the world. (Have you registered to vote yet? Don’t forget the debate on Monday!)” Here was a bit of political grandstanding, lest we think that Vogue writers only care about fashion.

Yet street style has evolved from fashionistas of the world being snapped by famous street photographers, like Bill Cunningham and the early days of Scott Schuman’s The Sartorialist.

And Vogue – and other fashion magazine houses – frequently feature fashion bloggers on their site and even in the mag. Hypocrite much?

One such blogger, Zanita Whittington, an Australian model, penned a rebuttal on her blog:

What shocked me was how nasty and biased the comments were – they clearly weren’t getting enough sleep. Frankly I wasn’t surprised they might think these things, we’re all guilty of a bit of gossip and I know how certain editors feel about the outside chaos. But to publish it?

It’s odd that, while dissing the whole scene, there was no acknowledgement of how much that scene is valued by magazines and designers, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many photographers making incomes out of it. [Fashion publications] are the ones supplying the demand. That’s the definition of hypocrisy.

Whatever, the fashion world is all about money and there is so much of that going around I am sure both sides of the party are sitting very happily with all their clothes, whether “borrowed” or given.

[source:thedailybeast]