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The Daily Beast's Fashion Blogger Power List

The Daily Beast's Fashion Blogger Power List

The lovely folks over at Tina Brown's The Daily Beast just published their "Fashion Blogger Power List". Your favourite online heavyweights are there: Fashion Toast, The Sartorialist, Style Bubble, and Tommy of Jak and Jil.

Believe it or not, I often get bewildered every time media outlets, whether online or in print, publish wonderful things about me. I mean come on --- I could barely put sentences together and my pictures are of mediocre quality to be a proper, proper 'blogger'. But you know what? For some strange reason, people seem to respond to my crazy formula of being fun, frivolous, spontaneous, carefree, post everything raw as it is, warts and all... it somehow works for me! I guess that's proof enough that the internet is so awesome. You can be a cuckoo kooky character living his dream (such as myself) and still have an audience. 

Oh and this is the nicest thing someone said about me, EVER.

Thank you, thank you so much The Daily Beast!

Over-excitable Fashionese

Over-excitable Fashionese

Vassup Simon Mills?

Portrait of a mother and her child

I found (one of my old entries) myself quoted in a hysterical article in the Daily Telegraph yesterday without proper attribution.

Then there’s the Japanese fashion journalist and consultant Yu Masui, who is so obsessed with the designer Balenciaga that he regularly purchases and wears items from the women-only collection – handbags included. Such audacious and spendthrift bravery has furnished Yu Masui with a heroic status among internet fashion groupies. “I’m totally jeliz,” comments one, in fluently over-excitable fashionese, under a picture of Yu Masui wearing a fetching (if slightly undersized) Balenciaga floral top. “He’s fierce and ferosh to the highest levels.” (“Ferosh”, in case you didn’t know, is the fashionese abbreviation for “ferocious”, ferocious being a good thing, in the same way that “fierce” is also compliment.)

In other news....

• The Los Angeles Times published an article about fashion bloggers and me, Tavi and Rumi made the footnote.
• Thank you Elle Germany for the lovely mention.
• Tausend Dank Vogue Germany for the brief plug in your July 2009 issue.

Dolce & Gabbana shows some love

Dolce & Gabbana shows some love

Mama mia! The super sexy, swishy and swanky folks over at Dolce & Gabbana's digital arm (SWIDE) celebrates their favourite bloggers. Earlier this week they've featured Kitsune Noir and Melanie Crété.

Today there's ickle ol' me.

Wow wow wow! I had lots of fun answering their questions. Click HERE to read the full interview. Maybe you'll learn a trick or two from this old pony. Haah! Enjoy! ;)

It truly is amazing how prestigious (and ginormous) fashion houses are supporting bloggers. Thank you thank you thank you, Dolce & Gabbana and Swide! I look forward to reading more profiles.

Visit http://www.swide.com.

screenshot via swide.com

Vogue Germany

Vogue Germany

Vogue Deutsch shows some love! Click here to read the full article and here to see the photo gallery.

I'd love to visit Germany someday. I've had far too many people tell me "you have to go to Berlin" over the years. I know Berlin isn't the only city in Germany. There's Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne etc., the list goes on and on...

Thank you so much Vogue for the lovely mention.
(I should actually say Conde Nast Germany because I'm also on the German GQ magazine and Glamour Germany websites, too.)

 

Fashion Bloggers at Ming Pao Weekly Hong Kong

Fashion Bloggers at Ming Pao Weekly Hong Kong

My friend Ashley fedexed me a copy of the March 21, 2009 issue (my birthday) of Ming Pao Weekly Hong Kong.

There's an article about bloggers featuring yours truly, Style Bubble, Sea of Shoes, Diane Pernet, Tavi, Garancedore and more. Mark my words -- I'm gonna learn Chinese someday.

Thank you so much Ming Pao for the lovely mention!

Women's Wear Daily March 31, 2009

Women's Wear Daily

Have you seen page 5 of today's Women's Wear Daily? There's a GREAT wrap-up of Japan Fashion Week, which I still need to blog about.

As a Brit online pal told me, congrats, I'm now officially a footnote.

HAAAAH!

Thank you WWD for the lovely mention.

FQ (Fashion Quarterly) Magazine Canada Spring 2009

FQ Magazine Canada -  Spring 2009

If you live in Canada, be sure to get yourselves a copy of the Spring 2009 issue of FQ (Fashion Quarterly) Magazine. Their cover story is "Cutting Edge Culture: Ten to Watch".

Designer Mikhael Kale, society girls Ashleigh Dempster and Amanda Blakely, artist Thrush Holmes, V Magazine's V A Model winner and rising model sensation Amanda Laine and filmmaker Charles Officer are in this issue, and many, many more, including yours truly.

Thank you, thank you, thank you so much to Editor-in-Chief Jeanne Beker, Gabrielle and FQ Magazine for the lovely mention. I'm truly honored!

H&M shows some love

H&M shows some love

Rumors have been going around since last year that Swedish fast fashion retailer, Hennes & Mauritz (that's H&M to you) will hit third world shores. I know I don't keep track of the local retail scene that much but to my knowledge (and to this date), we still don't have H&M in Manila.

I'm a big fan of H&M. They keep the spirit of fashion alive especially for those of us who can't afford to buy/wear runway pieces day in and and day out. I also LOVE their collaborations with fashion designers.  Anyway, imagine my surprise when they gave me and other fellow bloggers a lovely mention in their Spring 2009 magazine. It's translated in different languages and distributed in all of their stores worldwide.

Click HERE to read the online version.

Thank you H&M...and special thanks to Anjelica in Germany and Carla in California for the scans!

Natasha Poly and Fashion Bloggers at Vogue Russia March 2009

Vogue Russia March 2009

My gurl, the Russian stunner Natasha Poly, is on the March 2009 cover of Vogue Russia.

Also in this issue is a wonderful article of their favourite fashion blogs. I don't speak/can't read Russian but I had a Muscovite friend translate the article for me. I always get excited every time fashion magazines and traditional media write about bloggers. Blogging is still a very young 'industry' -- those of us who don't have a lot of experience still have lots to learn from veterans so yeah, it's definitely an honor to be recognized and have their support.

On the first page of the article (click those thumbnails) you'll see that even some of my readers (holding "I LOVE BRYANBOY" signs) made a quick lil' cameo appearance! WOW! Thank you so much for the lovely, lovely mention. OMG Aliona you seriously rock! You know, I was hoping I'd see Aliona in NYC but I've been told (before I left) that she skipped NYC this season so there. Oh well. It would've been soo cool meeting her and my trip would've been "complete". Hopefully that would happen sometime in the future because Aliona Doletskaya is one of my favourite editors E-V-E-R.

Special thanks to Josef who lives in Austria for the scans. You're so lucky you're able to buy Vogue Russia there!!! I hope something shows up on eBay soon because I want to get my own personal copy. Hello, Vogue Russia is one of my fave magazines and you guys already know that.

scan credit: Josef/achAT

So it begins...

So it begins...

Yes my lovely readers, it's *THAT* time of the year again -- it's New York Fashion Week y'all! With so many labels out there closing shop, scaling back or canceling shows altogether, it's gonna be very interesting to see what everyone is doing this season. Heck, countless members of the fashion media are facing endless budget cuts or worse, some are losing their jobs. But, as my awesome friends at The Daily say, CHIC must go on.

If you're in NYC (oh how I wish I was there) right now, be sure to pick up a copy of today's issue at the tents in Bryant Park or wherever you can get them.

I'm there! Yeehaw.

Thank you SOOO much guys from the bottom of my heart.

Bryanboy at Cleo Magazine Indonesia February 2009

Cleo Magazine Indonesia February 2009

Calling my readers in Indonesia -- if you haven't done so, be sure to get yourselves a copy of this month's (February 2009) Cleo Magazine! I made a cute little cameo appearance there!

Thank you so much Cleo Indonesia. Loving you!!! xxx

Key Players - Teen Vogue March 2009

Key Players - Teen Vogue March 2009

For their March 2009 issue, my favourite Teen magazine EVER, Teen Vogue, has an awesome article about teen fashion bloggers entitled "Key Players".

Be sure to buy this issue for the full article or visit TeenVogue.com.

It's an all-star cast of teh interweb's most beautiful young things -- the impossibly chic Jane of Sea of Shoes, the smart & stunning Julia Frakes of Bunny Bisous who I LOVE (seeing her never fails to bring a smile to my face), the adorable Arabelle of Fashion Pirates and the cool Camille of Childhood Flames. Rumi of Fashion Toast, Karla of Karla's Closet and the sensational Tavi of Style Rookie were also mentioned.

Guess who made a cameo appearance? Minority represent! I'm the only senior citizen (wait -- I'm 19!!), only male, only person who's outside the USA (I think), only gay, the only not-so-pretty person, etc etc etc. Hah!

Aww thank you Teen Vogue for the lovely mention. It truly is an honor. You guys ROCK! I can't wait to buy myself a copy when this issue hits the newsstands here in the Philippines.

PS. Holy speedy delivery batman! Special thanks to Trisha for the scans.

Bryanboy at Akşam Gazetesi Turkey

Bryanboy at Akşam Gazetesi Turkey

Awww... special thank you to Ozlem Aydin and Aksam Gazetesi in Turkey. You guys rock! I think it would be awesome to visit Turkey in the future because I've been getting a lot of press there recently.

As always, if there's a generous soul out there who can send me a hard copy by mail to add to my humble collection, I'll forever be indebted. Thank you :-P

Bryanboy at Trouw Newspaper Netherlands

Bryanboy at Trouw Newspaper Netherlands

Amsterdam Internatonal Fashion Week kicks off tomorrow (visit their blog) and there's a great article about fashion bloggers that was published the other day at Dutch newspaper Trouw.

Some of the bloggers on their radar are: The Sartorialist, Me, Facehunter and Get Your Plane Right on Time.

Thanks Trouw for the lovely mention -- and for making me young. You guys are better than botox! Also, I think it would be cool to visit Amsterdam some day.

Bryanboy at L'Officiel NL Netherlands

Bryanboy at L'Officiel Netherlands

Gosh, I really love them Dutch magazines... L'Officiel NL recently did a piece of fashion bloggers and guess who got a lovely mention? My friend Riane who runs True Vintage sent me a scanned copy.

Thanks Riane, Aynouk and thank you L'Officiel!