Name dropping is time-honoured tradition of those yearning to get well connected itching to go places in record time....If you want to climb the social ladder, as someone has said before "it's not what you know, it's who you know"...Ain't that the truth these days....
My recent increase in fashion and fashion related news has gotten the best of me finally...
I've taken to name-dropping to myself about the names i've come across in various forms of media of who is important in the fashion world...becoming ever so curious about fashion's who's who and their position in the hierarchy of the fashion world.
It's been mentioned that the medium of television and the reality show format has increased attention on the ones behind the scenes who would otherwise stay behind the scenes. There are those that enjoy the spotlight and glow in the bask of popularity, but there are those that shun the spotlight and take it for what it is, their 5 minutes of fame....
From the magazine goliath 'Vogue' which has been named the fashion bible comes Anna Wintour, the cut-throat Editor-in-Chief who has earned a reputation as much for how she runs the magazine as much as her undeniable great fashion taste. It certainly doesn't hurt that she was the basis for the character of the Editor-in-Chief played by Meryl Streep in 'The Devil Wears Prada'. Then there's the Editor-at-Large with an even larger reputation for great taste in the finer luxurious items and an even greater eye for fashion, Andre Leon Talley. To have worked with Andy Warhol, an opportunity that I've read in an interview, gave him the break of his career.
There's also the Fashion Magazine house of 'Elle' Magazine, which has had a great boost in reputation from the show 'The City' receiving a greater storyline in the second season, with it's ever-so hopeful Creative Director Joe Zee along with his Director of Public Relations, Erin Kaplan. Of course, who can forget the troublesome but well-connected Olivia Palermo, who at best has pushed her social stock with her spats with fellow co-worker Erin.
These names are fixtures in the front rows of Fashion Week in New York City. They can be seen, full team in tow to let their presence be known and represent their respective magazines to make sure that fashion trends and styles are reported on in a timely manner to lowly people like me, who admire and get inspired from their magazines...
Only, if you're not a Fashion Week fixture, you live in another country, or better yet suburbia and have a totally cut-off connection from New York and all of it's fashion greatness, who are these people to you?
Do you trust that they bring you the up-to-date fashion styles and give you the best opinion on the trends and styles that are sure to make you a hit for the next season, if not the current season? Do you even know if these people themselves have the style to carry off in their daily lives, as sort of 'practice what you preach' if you will?
Being into fahion isn't just about the latest runway look that you can sport anymore, it's the behind the scenes work that it takes a team to make a runway fashion show work. I like the gritty details of what happens to produce a magazine, or even a photo shoot...I want to know what happens behind the scenes that produces the end product of a great cover or a layout in the magazine that catches my eye....These are also what interest me in the industry...These people that i've mentioned run high in the hierarchy and are on the pulse of what's in and hot in fashion. They know what it takes to make a magazine great...and therefore they interest me.
What interests you about fashion?
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