Here’s a random question for you. Since the advent of the fashion photo shoot, designers have been in love with the whole airplane-runway to black car theme. The question is, what message are they trying to convey with the whole going somewhere theme? A recent ad that got this question to come up is Michael Kors’ campaign for his signature perfume line. Again we see a beautiful woman apparently just exiting a plane and going directly to her waiting car. While we can smell the perfume, we just know she’s wearing Michael Kors. How could she not be? She is a trendsetter jumping from one locale to another and if she’s going to wear a perfume that enables her to do this sort of thing, it must be Kors.

And while Michael is not the only one who does this sort of jet setting ad it is the most recent example. Granted there’s nothing wrong with it, you just have to wonder the point of it all. Wouldn’t it be much simpler to have a photo of the bottle against a white background? If you like anything Michael Kors, surely you will love his perfume whether on a runway or a white background? Right?

Perusing through The Independent’s fashion articles today there was this one particularly interesting piece on some of the most ridiculous jobs in fashion. Some of the jobs include being an iPod nanny, one who maintains a 100-deep ipod collection, a notebook monkey, one who walks around taking constant dictation. Another job is specifically dedicated to naming items from the designer’s collection. (more…)

Got a screen capture of Style.com’s recent story on the top ten models from the most recent runway shows and I have to tell you, maybe we weren’t so paranoid when we ran this blog post.

I was having a conversation with our publisher yesterday and he said something that really gave me pause. He said that the very nature of blogging is antithetical to fashion itself. The vocal want, need, have crowd doesn’t work for an industry that’s meant to keep the masses at bay. The analogy he used as an example was going to an exclusive club. There’s a big bouncer at the door and he’ll let two people in and keep 30 people out. Now one wonders, is the party that good if only a few people can get in? But the wondering causes the masses to stay on the line. At that point whether the party is good or not, it’s irrelevant, you just need to know; so you stay on the line, waiting and hoping to get in. Once you’re in, you might say, “oh that’s it?” You’ll never say that to those still waiting on the line because now, you’re “in”. The analogy might be somewhat crude and meandering a bit, but it is definitely effective.

Blogging is inviting, it’s for the masses. According to him, fashion is not. Blogging offers a comments section, fashion doesn’t care what you think, even if you’re wealthy. Fashion blogging points out the must have, the want, the need. Fashion wants and needs what it can’t have but tries to get anyway. So while I was waxing philosophical I asked him if he had something to tell me about Papierblog. He said no, we’re going to be around for a looong time. He was just wondering. I exhaled a bit and wondered if, just if he could possibly be right. Was Anna Wintour right in keeping the masses at bay and abhorring the very nature of the word blog? Is this thing of ours built for an industry too pretentious to recognize it’s own vanity?

Flipping through my Vogue yesterday I found this ad from Bottega Venetta. While not particularly different from the other ads in the magazine, I found this bag alarmingly large and wondered aloud, how large are hobos going to get? I also pondered exactly what do we hold in these things. I guess the last thing that crossed my mind is will the bags get even larger?