Findlay, Rosie (2015) The Short, Passionate and Close-Knit History of Personal Style Blogs. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, 19 (2). pp. 157-178. ISSN 1362-704X
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Type of Research: | Article |
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Creators: | Findlay, Rosie |
Description: | Most media histories of style blogging commence their narrative in 2009, at the moment when a select few fashion and personal style bloggers were invited to sit front row at a number of shows on the Spring/Summer Ready-to-Wear ‘Fashion Month’ schedule. Yet that moment, symbolic of the ‘arrival’ of fashion bloggers in the industry (albeit a partial and contested one), was precipitated by years of fashion blogging. This developmental period has not yet been mapped. This article, then, will present a historical narrative tracing the development of personal style blogging through the archive. It will engage with the earliest independent fashion blogs (which predated distinct sub-genres of fashion blogging) to map how they, along with early digital and print media, influenced and led to the emergence of personal style blogging as a distinct sub-genre of the wider fashion blogosphere. I will draw on oral history from bloggers as well as the archives of their (and other) blogs, as well as the digital archive of early fashion websites, online articles and blogposts from current style blogs. I will also draw on prior studies of personal style blogging by Rocamora and Luvaas, among others, as well as work by Lévi-Strauss and Butler, to contextualise this discussion. |
Official Website: | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2752/175174115X14168357992319 |
Additional Information (Publicly available): | Access to this publication is restricted until the 21st October 2016, due to the publisher's copyright policy. If you would like access, please contact UAL Research Online. |
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | personal style blogs, fashion blogs, digital history |
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > London College of Fashion Research Groups > Historical and Cultural Studies |
Date: | 21 April 2015 |
Digital Object Identifier: | 10.2752/175174115X14168357992319 |
Date Deposited: | 08 Jul 2016 16:02 |
Last Modified: | 27 Apr 2017 22:16 |
Item ID: | 9757 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/9757 |
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