Despite the commercialisation of fashion blogging, I would still celebrate the movement as a positive whole. From the privileged women running million-dollar blogging empires to anyone getting started with Instagram and YouTube channels – it’s all contributed to a diversification and democratisation in the ways we’re inspired to dress and express ourselves. When you hap across blogging voices that up representation of different ethnicities, social backgrounds and body sizes in fashion, it’s a fist-pumping moment of progress that wouldn’t have existed if the internet hadn’t come along.
Susie Lau in a great piece today on the evolution of style blogging (coming after a big controversy back in September, when a few Vogue editors claimed style bloggers were ruining fashion)