The age of new media strikes again...

A while back Glen Reynolds An Army of Davids did a great job writing about new media's potential to influence and shake up the status quo.  As someone who was blogging back before anyone knew what a blog was its been fun to watch blogging develop into what it has become...

 

The growing pains and migraines it has created for the professional class has also been a major plus...

 

Today's NYT's  Year In Style shows how new media has interjected itself into the fashion world-- Bloggers Crash Fashion’s Front Row

As a relatively new phenomenon in the crowded arena of journalists whose specialty it is to report the news of the catwalks, fashion bloggers have ascended from the nosebleed seats to the front row with such alacrity that a long-held social code among editors, one that prizes position and experience above outward displays of ambition or enjoyment, has practically been obliterated. After all, what is one to think — besides publicity stunt — when Bryan Boy, a pseudonymous, style-obsessed blogger from the Philippines, is seated at the D & G show in Milan between the august front-row fixtures of Vogue and Vanity Fair, a mere two positions to the right of Anna Wintour?

“There has been a complete change this year,” said Kelly Cutrone, who has been organizing fashion shows since 1987. “Do I think, as a publicist, that I now have to have my eye on some kid who’s writing a blog in Oklahoma as much as I do on an editor from Vogue? Absolutely. Because once they write something on the Internet, it’s never coming down. And it’s the first thing a designer is going to see.”

Posted via email from Jim Nichols