GPOYW: I sold my soul to Tumblr and all I got was this tee shirt
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THE TUMBLR 20 | NEW YORK FASHION WEEK
Oh, the memories! This is a quick (and beautifully edited) film of the Tumblr 20 at the Hudson Hotel throughout the duration of our 10-day stay. Catch a glimpse of the Style Closet sponsored by NMRKT, our private lounge, and the overall hotel’s awesomeness. Also, you can peep me in the video quite a few times (16 year old black kid with big hair)! A huge THANK YOU, once again, to Rich Tong, Morgan Hotels, Holly Stair, and the rest of the Tumblr 20 for making it the most amazing experience of my life. Forever grateful.
Tumblr #NYFW Spring 2012
We had so much fun last season bringing some of our top fashion bloggers here to New York to cover fashion week that I’m thrilled to announce we’re doing it again!
Our team spent the past few weeks reviewing each and every one of the hundreds of blog submissions that you all sent in, in search of the most creative people in our fashion community.
We were looking for individuals who not only create and curate some of the best content on their respective blogs, but who also recognize this as an opportunity to begin developing their careers within the fashion industry.
I’m extremely proud of the 16 amazing individuals whom we chose, as they each contribute unique points of view on womenswear, menswear, beauty, models, personal style and photography. Joining them are four incredibly gifted people from last season, whose exceptional work speaks for itself.
Their collective diversity is a true representation of what I believe the Tumblr fashion community is all about and I hope you all have an opportunity to check them all out.
14 days and counting!
Beautiful photo courtesy of Jamie Beck.
Girl With Curves
A personal style blog, offering outfit inspiration and shopping tips for the everyday fashionista.
The Style Student
FIT student posting photos of what she wears everyday.
Opium Poppies
Photography student, based in Brooklyn, with a knack for putting together vintage inspired outfits.
Tuula
A personal diary of wanderlust and an overflowing wardrobe.
How To Talk To Girls At Parties
A poorly-curated inspiration board for the sartorially inclined.
Justin Chung
Former student of public health turned fashion photographer.
Gaws
Self-proclaimed existentialist hailing from Toronto, who also takes lots of photos.
Novh
Personal style & menswear inspiration.
Annamarie
Professional makeup artist and creator of The Daily Face.
Karla Powell MUA
International makeup artist, sharing professional tips and product reviews.
High On Flowers
A collection of imagery from photoshoots, runway, backstage, advertising and streetstyle.
High Like Fashion
Models from the runway and editorial.
Ellepa
Sydney-based fashion photographer, making friends with strangers and together making photo magic.
We The Urban
A one-stop daily news source for internet savvy fashion enthusiasts.
Closet Collage
Collages of the best looks and inspiration from runway collections.
History of Chuck
“I am like a big hairy Tavi…”
Men In This Town
Giuseppe Santamari’s street style journal, profiling men with a distinct look in their natural habitat.
Paper Tissue
A mix of photography that inspires Jeannine Tan, as well as work of her own.
Farpitzs
Farpitzs means “all dressed up” in Yiddish.
From Me To You
A photography blog by Jamie Beck, co-creator of cinemagraphs.
GPOYW, Time Out
I am beyond flattered.
Allison Orenstein took some absolutely brilliant photos of Tumblr HQ!
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Taking over New York Fashion Week
We love any chance to hang out with you guys. And with Fashion Week happening in our backyard, this seemed like an awesome opportunity to hang out with a few of Tumblr’s most stylish fashion bloggers.
Through an extraordinary effort by our new Fashion Director, Rich Tong, we’re thrilled to welcome 24 fashion bloggers to New York from all over the world!
They’ll be providing first-hand coverage that you can track at http://www.tumblr.com/nyfw, presented by American Express.
Our editors will also be featuring your best Fashion Week posts. Just make sure to tag them NYFW.
If this is something you’d like to be involved in, please let Rich know! We’re hoping to do this again in London, Milan, and Paris over the next year.
Gorgeous photo taken by Jamie Beck in our new office
なるほど。
Tumblr’s David Karp and Mashable interviewer Lauren Indvik at Decoded Fashion. (Photo: Mashable Tumblr)
Karp’s slides had the classic “Tumblr blue” background as he explained Tumblr’s ecosystem of creators, curators and audience, as well as fashion’s role in the Tumblrverse. Though the website has received scrutiny and crticism recently for its problematic relationship with fashion, Mr. Karp demonstrated Tumblr’s growing ties with the fashion community, including some of the best examples of fashion tumblrs (Vogue, Dolce & Gabbana, the New York Times magazine).
“Anyone inspired by world fashion… can participate with fashion in meaningful ways,” said Mr. Karp. “At its core, it’s a creative community… a creative platform with the creative ability to tell stories.”
Mr. Karp was engaging and answered questions quickly and without hesitation in a clipped accent. He spoke vaguely of “leveraging unique resources to add value to Tumblr,” though it was unclear if he was talking about existing Tumblr features or ones to be rolled out.
Mashable’s Lauren Indvik brought up Tumblr’s recent gaffes with the fashion industry, but Mr. Karp was dismissive in the most friendly of ways. “It was heavily publicized,” he said of Tong’s departure, and insisted that the difference incidents be “decoupled.” He stated that a maligned effort by Tumblr’s former fashion director Rich Tong was just a proposal sent out for feedback, and that someone merely decided to make “a big fuss” about its contents prematurely. He then spoke glowingly of Valentine Uhovski, the new director for Tumblr’s fashion (with a promise of pulling together Fashion Week programming).
Mr. Karp also spoke of the multitude of bloggers who use the site, assuring that Tumblr gives them more “touch points” into the industry.
“I don’t think anyone else… gives opportunities in this platform,” he said confidently.
But what seemed to be the centerpiece of the keynote was Tumblr’s new plan for advertisers (i.e., Tumblr’s monetization strategy). Tumblr will be rolling out a new, two-pronged advertising schema. Advertisers will be allowed access to the Tumblr Spotlight, a portion of the site that new users can browse, which Mr. Karp called a “major point of discussion.” Mr. Karp is also letting advertisers into the Tumblr Radar section of the site, which heretofore only featured sites chosen by Tumblr. Mr. Karp did not elaborate as to who the advertisers will be or the nature of the ads.
He credited Tumblr’s previous lack of advertisements to his own reservations. He did not hide his (friendly!) contempt for advertising, emphasizing that Tumblr is a creative community which values expression, which advertising, in his opinion, is not.
Leaving Tumblr
After a year of serving as Tumblr’s Fashion Director, I am excited to announce that I’ll be leaving to pursue other independent opportunities.
The fashion community on Tumblr has grown tremendously in just a year, starting with only a handful of industry leaders and quickly expanding to over 200 of the world’s most creative fashion publications, designers, brands, photographers, models and stylists. Their presence has given way to the most incredible opportunities for this community’s young, emerging talent, and I am ever so thankful for having had the opportunity to work with each and every one of them.
It’s been an extraordinary learning experience working with such a world-class team at Tumblr, and I look forward to all of the amazing developments they have planned for the coming years.
Cinemagraph courtesy of Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg
If you are planning on participating, make sure your last tumblr post the night beforehand is “BRB Blackout”, so people know why you are gone. Also, please reblog this post so that as many people as possible know when the blackout starts.
Whatever your respective time...
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