Comments on: Word on the Street http://www.avisualsociety.com/2007/09/26/word-on-the-street-8/ "A fashion picture is a portrait, just as a portrait is a fashion picture." - Irving Penn Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:42:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 by: -avs http://www.avisualsociety.com/2007/09/26/word-on-the-street-8/#comment-521 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:39:19 +0000 http://www.avisualsociety.com/2007/09/26/word-on-the-street-8/#comment-521 Perhaps, perhaps not. If anything I could see him playing a "Glenn O'brien" role at Jed Root. Someone who can act as a stylist, writer, editor and yes, occasional photographer. Perhaps, perhaps not. If anything I could see him playing a “Glenn O’brien” role at Jed Root. Someone who can act as a stylist, writer, editor and yes, occasional photographer.

]]> by: anonymous http://www.avisualsociety.com/2007/09/26/word-on-the-street-8/#comment-520 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:22:07 +0000 http://www.avisualsociety.com/2007/09/26/word-on-the-street-8/#comment-520 The Sartorialist signing with Jed Root is a joke I think. What Scott Schuman did was ingenious b/c he took something and made it mainstream and easily digestible, but I don't think he even knows fashion that well, let alone photography. I think he knows PR and how to capitalize on trends, not even new trends, but ones that are mainstream as far as the fashion scene goes by the time he posts them. Yes, he may bring in some bank for Jed Root, b/c mainstream and easily digestible = $, but I think he does more to devalue their image as a good rep house than anything. Not that I have anything against him, I actually check out his blog once and awhile, but more for "people watching" and gossip than anything else. The Sartorialist signing with Jed Root is a joke I think. What Scott Schuman did was ingenious b/c he took something and made it mainstream and easily digestible, but I don’t think he even knows fashion that well, let alone photography. I think he knows PR and how to capitalize on trends, not even new trends, but ones that are mainstream as far as the fashion scene goes by the time he posts them.

Yes, he may bring in some bank for Jed Root, b/c mainstream and easily digestible = $, but I think he does more to devalue their image as a good rep house than anything.

Not that I have anything against him, I actually check out his blog once and awhile, but more for “people watching” and gossip than anything else.

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