Vice Style - check out Stevie's fabulous YSL ring!
Vice Style's Love Blogging series is all about celebrating the rise of bloggers for their vision, creativity and street smarts. But they haven't picked the super giants Susie Bubble or Garance Dore, or Jane Aldridge from Sea of Shoes. Instead they've turned the lens of the camera onto 5 of the "most promising" current bloggers, including the industry insider DisneyRollerGirl and the cutesy Bip Ling. And they've just done a series on the lovely Stevie from Discotheque Confusion, who just happens to be a mate of mine. What I love most about blogging is that even though you can be separated by oceans and you might have never met before in real life you can still make friends. It's lame, I know. But I just know that with our shared love of wicker baskets, 70s and 80s Robert Redford and all things Venetia Scott, if we ever met in real life we would get on like a house on fire. Her blog was one of the first ones I started reading way back in 2006 when it had just started and I was contemplating my own blog. It was clever, creative and deliciously witty, and she loved all the girls that I loved (Kirsten Dunst and Chloe Sevigny!). In the video she talks about how a blog differs from a magazine because of the nature of the person behind it. You are faced with personality, personal choices, personal likes and dislikes when you view a blog in a way that you simple are not with a magazine. As much as I love magazines, there is always the lingering veneer of the sterile around it - stylists at the big publications are rarely styling from a personal level and not a publication one. With a blog you get none of that. Everything is about you. And that has been one of the biggest challenges of blogging for me, finding "me" and feeling confident enough to share that. Stevie does it wonderfully, who doesn't love her raptures on house plants, or francoise hardy and serge gainsbourg music, or her "style notes for guys" that regularly encourages a mash up of 90s sports jacket and chinos with The Beatles' tight-pants insouciance. Through the love blogging series we are shown the people behind the blogs, and it is truly lovely to see Stevie.
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