She’s got new pair of Balmains, time to write about it. Yes I shop Designer Vintage and always have specific Insta-Posting times to get the perfect amount of likes on a photo. I just purchased a domain! Now I have to add in that catchy name to go with my new ” dot com”. Oh! And I can’t forget to make sure I update my insta handle. Gotta make sure everyone knows I now am a blogger.
Everyone and their mothers , grandmothers and great aunts have blogs. Hell you can take an ” #ootd “, or a ” #wiwt” and hashtag that photo like nobody’s business ~ and voila! You are now a blogger. Anyone can do it. It’s what you do with your blog and with your sense of influence that makes you stand out.
The truth: The clothes do not make the blogger.
Everyone is stuck on becoming the person they’re sitting next to and do what that individual is doing that in the end, they forget why they started in the first place.
The other truth: So who stands out now that everyone is becoming the next fashion blogger?
The public’s naked eye seemingly never wants to go beyond what they believe bloggers to be and simply stick to the well known opinion that bloggers are all for themselves. I definitely have regard to this opinion, but only up to a certain extent. Sure there are those that create videos about themselves, take photos of themselves non stop etcetera, etcetera as the list goes on for miles. Sure, it all comes with the territory. Sure you have exquisite taste, using fancy words as you create your new post, but how are you standing out from that individual sitting next to who who’s blogging about the same pair of pants, same pair of shoes and same cup of coffee? There is more to it than just aimlessly typing up new titles for posts and captions for new “IG pics”. There is more to it than just “selling clothes and selling looks. There is more beyond the social realms and instant gratification that bloggers seem to live for. This post is by no means to speak negatively of my career and the career of many, but an awareness to stand out and offer character into what you do.
As influencers of the new age, blogger or none blogger, we have a distinguished sense of power that if used right, can create big changes. Sit down for a second and marinate on that thought. Beyond the likes and number of followers, if there was a way to use your influence to make a change, what would you choose to do? What would you do if Social Mediums never mattered?
This weekend’s event I curated was a reminder for myself. Putting together all of our closets, we teamed up to raise awareness of the dangers of cancer by raising funds for the American Cancer Society to kick off October’s Cancer Awareness Month.
Influence for the better . Blog more than just clothes because blogging is beyond fashion. If used correctly for a bigger cause, that power can give way more self gratification than any Instagram like or follow ever will.
xo, JG
Thank you to Jeff Staple and the amazing team at Reed Space who made this benefit all possible! Thank you to Style Society Guy, Marie Mag, Joel Moore and North of Man for coming out and coming together to make this benefit a successful one! Check out their blogs ! Thank you to BROA Cafe for sponsoring the event!
Thank you Trisha Singh for the Photos.
Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the event and the cause! The portions of the proceeds have been donated to the American Cancer Society!