Almost four years ago we profiled the first wave of fashion bloggers, including barely known names like IWantIGot’s Anita Clarke and some photographer named Tommy Ton with a wee website called JakandJil. The rest is history, and bloggers now outnumber bona fide editors at style parties and sit smugly in Fashion Week front rows.
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We favour quality over quantity, though, and it wasn’t until this year that a new batch of fresh, insightful and style-savvy local voices emerged en masse.
Kimberly Lyn, communications coordinator by day, style-writing footwear fetishist by night, has just returned from covering London Fashion Week for her website The Souls Of My Shoes (thesoulsofmyshoes.com). Kevin Naulls’s Dressed For Dinner blog (dressedfordinner.wordpress.com) cleverly documents contemporary menswear and its penchant for old-school plaid and facial hair. And Textstyles’ (torontotextstyles.blogspot.com) Stefania Yarhi was shooting military parkas and statement heels for two years before we snagged her street-style-snapping skills to relaunch our own MyStyle feature.
All three are definitely recommended fashion reading, destined for primo seats and soaring web stats.
