Apparently Magazine Editors Are Far More Honorable Than Bloggers

Bloggers are so attractive to the big design houses because they are so wide-eyed and obsessed, but they don’t have the critical faculties to know what’s good and what’s not. As soon as they’ve been invited to the shows, they can no longer criticize because then they won’t be invited back.

-Robert Johnson, associate editor at GQ

I get that “the magazine industry is falling apart” is not something magazine editors can say when asked why bloggers are taking the good seats at fashion shows. But frantic scrambling for an explanation hit a new level of BS when Robert Johnson of GQ basically suggested that magazine editors don’t give the same designer BJs that some bloggers do. As if advertising– though diminishing– has no effect on what magazines write about the companies advertising…

That said, no more Tavi, please. She’s cute-ish, but so irrelevant.