“It’s Like Shopping!”: How Fashion Blogs Create A Competitive Market of Taste
Linking from fashion blog to fashion blog, I try my skills at curation: importing pictures to hang side-by-side on my desktop. I try to be selective, and I try to be careful — to make notes of designers and models, collections and editors — but I lose the plot almost immediately, and get carried away...
Functionless Fashion
My flatmate, Becca, said to me this morning, “I went to a hipster party last night. It looked like Cariboo sponsored the event.” I nodded knowingly. “Oh, yeah, I was at this hipster party a couple weekends ago. Everyone had tattoos of owls.” In order to parse this conversation, you kind of have to be...
