Olympus fashion week is so, well, last week, so forgive us if we’re only now covering Nanette Lepore’s blogtastic behind-the-scenes account of the showing of her Fall 2006 collection.
Lepore’s chronicled adventures, including Starbucks runs and chosing the perfect nail varnish, span from only February 2 through the 10th, but offer the average, no-access fashion plebe, such as yours truly, an insider’s peek at how a collection comes together in the hectic few days before its debut.
Truly addicted? Fret not: Lepore promises to blog on in May, just in time for another exclusive behind-the-scenes peek at her store’s launch in London.
Top Designer Nanette Lepore to Blog During New York Fashion Week [PRNewswire]
Who Doesn’t Have A Blog? [Fashion Week Daily]
Lepore, Le Blog? [Imaginary Socialite]
Mmm, enjoying my morning cuppa crappa, I was catching up on all my “news” on Gawker (that whole Alito thing is just too much of drag to deal with first thing). Scanning down through all the hum drum, I read this boxed in post* and kept waiting for the punchline.
…waiting, waiting…
No punchline. It was just an ad. Just a silly ad with copy about as entertaining as the rest of the fodder.
Sigh. Just remembering the days of yore before you broke our heart.
*full text after the jump
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It’s like the night before Christmas and I’m positively shitting myself because Friday! Tomorrow! January 20th!, the nominees for the 2006 Bloggies will be annouced!
Did you feel that? That electric shock of contagious flare sparking from one disgruntled-&-bitter-at-work blogger to another bored-housewife-with-a-digi-cam-&-low-self-esteem blogger? It’s spreading like wildfire! Bloggie fever!
This year, the categories have been updated to include new ones such as best podcast & best teen blog.
We, here at Blogebrity, would like to make a few additional suggestions for next year:
Best Outed Anonymous Blog
Best Now Rarely Updated & Half as Interesting Since the Book Deal Blog
Best Most Popular Blog that is Really One Big Inside Joke Amoung 15 People Blog
Best One Trick Pony/Beating a Dead Horse Blog
Best Splog
On Friday, January 20, the finalists will be announced and voting will be open again to choose the winners.
Voting will close at 10:00 PM EST on Sunday, January 31. The winners will be posted sometime between Sunday, March 13 and Tuesday, March 15.
BJake’s at it again! And God bless him for it…otherwise, I woulda resorted to posting some high concept piece like where do blogs go when they die or why do people put bandanas on their dogs.
Anyhow…..
A SHIT STORM’S A BREWIN’ and our favorite anti-hero sits supremely on his throne of poo, casting down golden turdlettes upon his blogging colleagues. But, as witnessed by the growing number of fights in various blog’s comments sections, the blogging community has had enough of his crap.
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AdRants reports (relays?) today that the Zero Movement, a scintillating, no, titillating blog about “a guy [who] rants about why life is so full of stuff to do and how it would be so much nicer if there was, well, zero to do” is a downright dirty SHAM. A ploy! Just another marketing SCAM by the folks at Coca-Cola. I feel so used, so damned cheated out of life. Is abso-fucking-lutely nothing SACRED?
Score one for Pepsi. Coke can suck on it.
Spinachdip, aka the New American Hero, digs deep into a star-crossed feud between two of NYC’s more infamous (and disturbingly omnipresent) bloggers : BVan versus BJake.
Oh, it’s on.
In the Chronicles of a Pissing Match, SpiDip outlines the innocuous birth* of the brewing boyfight: a lighthearted jab from Choire Sicha on Friday, December 23rd, 2005.
I submit that the oxymoron of 2005 is “Gothamist reports.”
(Narrates? Recites? Chronicles? Tells? Relates? Conveys? Imparts? Transmits? Sure!)
January 7th: Gothamist reprints a reader email and tacks on, tongue-in-cheek, “So, there, we’ve reported something.”
The semantically-minded BVan pipes up with “No, that’s still not ‘reporting’. More like, ‘relaying’.”
and then, and then, and then! BJake loses his shit.
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Self-publishing website, Lulu.com, has created the Blooker Prize to celebrate authors who began by writing blogs and “have turned them into fiction, non-fiction and comic “blooks” in print form.”
Roger van der Horst, education editor said that although they hadn’t yet received the “blooks”, a likely contender might be Julie and Julia, a book based on Julie Powell’s Salon.com blog where she decided to cook (and blog) everything in Julia Child’s 1961 classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
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What happens when a self-styled “exclusive” list of it-bloggers gets a little too bloated, a little too self-aggrandizing?
It becomes an easy target for the cyber-jackals to go in for the kill: enter Douchebrity, a strangely more exclusive satire of Blogebrity’s own list, featuring the “best of the worst…douche-a-riffic” bloggers on the web.
Un-ironically (perhaps even post-ironically?), Douchebrity’s List borrows most of it’s members from the original.
Text from Heather : Jessica Fucking Cutler is here.
My Reply : Duh, of course she’s there
And so begins Blogmukkah05 : the launch of [decentcontent].
After a holiday rooftop cocktail party with my favorite fairies uptown (btw boys, delicious white Russians!), I slipped into a yellow cab and zipped down to the lower east side’s Lucky Jacks. I tick-tacked my way through the throngs of i-bankerish goons and the women who love their money and found the stairs down to a dimly lit basement: home of Blogmukka05.
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Ok, well, I’m not actually going.
Neither is anyone else. In an usual display of public humility, Coen cancelled her engagement at the 92nd St Y after discovering the rather exorbitant $25 admission fee. Coen-philes have probably already read her Gawker post, complete with the requisite Gawketeer comments and corny one-liners.
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Last week, I attended Jen Dziura’s birthday extravaganza.
A slew of vaudevillian-style acts including “comedy”, musical guests, and a bevy of burlesque dancers (which were less burlesque dancers and more likely just a lame excuse to get pasty white girls with pasties and pin curls to show us their tits–hey, no complaints here) were lined up to take the stage and pay homage to the birthday girl.
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..it’s come to this?
First, recycled shirt slogans; now, the recycled jokes?
Blow. Snow. Ski Bunnies. Flakes. Skiing with “Charlie” (or Kate). Looks like we got a looooooooooooooooooooooooooong winter ahead of us.
coming up : my take on Jessica Coen’s appearance on the 92nd St Y. Stay tuned…It’s a page turner!
1. Everyone is referred to by their “Blogger” names.
“Hey! There’s Clink and Thought’s Daughter throwin’ a few back! ! Oh, and there’s TAN again trying to bum another shout out from Gawker just to boost his traffic. Hey, GirlyNYC, who’s your friend? What’s that? Oh yeah, Blue Jake’s in the back aggressively snapping photos of Lindsayism.”
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Oh boy. Seems Si’s cold, bony finger of media influence cum unqualified lust for the mighty ad dollar has scratched Denton’s itch for blogosphere domination. Was that a tad hyperbolic?
Tomorrow, Gawker Media unleashes the Consumerist, which Denton promises will be a perverse spin on the now “traditional shopping title” category.
Each week The Consumerist will guide you through the delinquencies of retail and service organizations. The Consumerist will highlight the persistent, shameless boners of modern consumerism - and the latest hot deals, discounts, and freebies around.
That’s all well and good, but I wonder how long it will take the Gawker Ad team to convince Denton that advertisers prefer it if you play nice. And by “play nice” I really mean “lose editorial integrity”…but, you know, so long as you “get all Gawker on their ass,” surely no one’ll notice the snarky-sellout.
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Girly-Man Men’s title, Esquire Magazine, may have recently touted rum as the next it-liquor, but real Men and Women leave “fruity” to the Chelsea Boys, and they opt not to follow fickle editorial whims based on advertising pressure.
No, big boys and girls drink Whisky. Bourbon. Scotch.
Enter Kevin Erskine’s Scotch Blog : Straight news and blunt comment on the Scotch whisky industry.
The Scotch Blog is alarmingly well-written, offering on-target criticism from a connoisseur who is clearly passionate about his Scotch. December 5th’s post, for example, amusingly disabuses the unjustified celebrity of “the world’s most expensive scotch”.
For offline advice or scotch related tchotche, visit Doceon Press.
