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February 27, 2005

d-grade fashionista junk

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This was pretty funny:

Since then he has become the first tai­lor to stage a Paris cat­walk show, while also fea­tu­ring his own collec­tion at the Milan Mens­wear Show. This week his latest ready-to-wear Givenchy collec­tion went on show in Paris.
Along the way, Boa­teng has also built up a ste­llar list of clients that inc­lu­des Samuel L. Jack­son, Mick Jag­ger, Will Smith, Jude Law and David Bowie.

Usually when a fashion desig­ner names a list of illus­trious cele­brity patrons, it means “We’ve been han­ding out free­bies like nobody’s busi­ness.“
Celebs never pay for anything in fashion. Every schoolchild knows this.
Old media are always har­ping on about how their main advan­tage over blog­gers is their “objec­ti­vity”. Rea­ding this little ill-informed PR tout, I just go “Bullshit”.
But that’s what Big Media can’t get their head around. Here’s Tom giving out A-Grade Savile Row infor­ma­tion for free, while here’s some Time War­ner fashio­nista giving out D-Grade junk and expec­ting to be paid for it. And no cor­po­rate stra­tegy meat­pup­pet knows what the hell to do about it.

One Response to “d-grade fashionista junk”

1. Johnnie Moore says:

   February 28, 2005 at 9:12 AM

   Well fin­ge­red. It is breath­less hype. I hope it hap­pens a lot less in future. Keep up the good work nai­ling it.