One of the hot topics of discussion in my Q&A with Vogue’s Robin Derrick last week was that of old school journalism versus new school blogs. Robin observed that with the beauty industry especially, brands and consumers are talking directly to each other via blogs and Twitter, effectively making traditional beauty journalism redundant (you can read all the tweets here – read from the bottom up). (more…)
“Media companies are going to become retailers and retailers are going to become media companies. It’s inevitable.”
Naralie Massenet, Financial Times
Thanks everyone for making my coming out party last week so memorable. One of the highlights was the interview Kiki Georgiou did with me for Grazia Daily and another was the talk I did at the Apple store with Vogue’s Robin Derrick. I have done a fair bit of live TV and radio and I don’t mind public speaking but this was the first time I had done a live Q&A in the middle of a store. For those that couldn’t make it, The Women’s Room did a great write-up of it while I’m told it will be available to download from Apple iTunes some time next week.
“Every week I have a summary sent over of the positive blogs, the negative blogs and the interesting blogs. I read them on paper. It’s interesting to see what is making the rounds, what people are talking about. All of our work as designers is to understand what people are thinking, where the world is going, how things work. It’s one of many sources of information.”
Miuccia Prada
