Whether Anna and her ilk approve of it or not, bloggers have become permanent fixtures that they have to deal and compete with during fashion coverages. AN iconic photo of Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and fellow journalists Suzy Menkes and Hamish Bowles sharing the front-row with bloggers like Bryanboy (third from left) in 2010. The story, which was picked up by an on-line fashion magazine, which calls itself Buro, even went as far as to say that “no bloggers will be on the guest list.” I doubt it, though. High-end designer brands have begun to cut cost, as they brace themselves for the inevitable.) (My friend, the ever incisive Kitty Go, traced this development to the fact that huge emerging markets for luxury items like China are showing signs of slowing down. Since it can’t do away with legitimate journalists working for some of the world’s most influential media outfits, it has decided to cut cost by limiting access to bloggers. PRs, and the companies and individuals they represent realize that quantity doesn’t always equate to quality.Ī recent Wall Street Journal article reported that IMG Fashion, the outfit behind Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, is reducing its media invites by as much as 20 percent. IT was only a matter of time before publicists, a.k.a. Bryan Grey Yambao) for having gone this far and, as the cliche goes, putting the Philippines on the fashion map. HE’S been called all sorts of names and accused by his detractors of virtually every crime imaginable, except perhaps the Holocaust, but you have to give it to Filipino fashion blogger Bryanboy (a.k.a.

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