I read Olivia Palermo's
interview for Exposed Zippers, and after I was done with it I looked for other interesting
interviews to read about. I found ex Vogue Filipa Fino's interview, and I read
something that not until recently makes me cringe every time I read about it.
Fino said this in her
interview, "I knew that the internet was the
future. Magazines, as I knew and loved, would soon cease to exist. A very
strong feeling came over me that my daughters would not be reading the paper
pages of Vogue." I hadn’t really had a problem with this before, but
recently I have started thinking, I want to be a fashion editor one day I am
going to go to school for this and only this because it’s what I’m passionate
about, but what if magazines do become outdated? What if people only have a
blurred memory of a fashion magazine that they think started with V, and
nothing else? I mean could a fashion magazine such as Vogue really be reduced
to a blur in somebody’s mind?
The internet is great, and if it weren’t for the
internet I would have never known what I wanted to do with myself for the rest of
my life, and I am going to be forever thankful to blogs and the people running
them and the internet for educating me on fashion when I couldn’t buy fashion magazines.
Never the less I want to work at a magazine, I love my blog I mean it’s my baby
and I make sure I feed it at least once every day. Don’t get me wrong blogs and
the internet are very important especially now a days, but I don’t want to work
on a blog my whole life. It would be amazing to be an editor and have a blog on
the side because people may want to know what I think on a certain matter and not
what the magazine I work at thinks about the same matter. If given the opportunity
to go to school to study fashion merchandising or fashion journalism and then
go on to work at a magazine or become a very successful blogger I would still probably
vote for becoming as Bryan Boy puts it a "coffee runner". I want/must
work at Vogue or Elle or at some fashion magazine, which simply transports me
to a world I long to know and love and away from wherever it is I find myself.
If magazines are to become part of the past, and to be
lessened by the internet what are people like me supposed to do with ourselves?
I really hope it doesn’t come to that, the internet and magazines are equally
important. They report the same things on different platforms and to different
people, why must we look to make one more important than the other?
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