To: Vogue // From: Fashion Blogger

Interviewed by CNN Indonesia for a very interesting topic: my opinion on Vogue US's recent harsh comments where they called out fashion bloggers as "pathetic" and "heralding the death of style". I have a 70% - 30% split view on this. I for sure disagree that fashion bloggers are heralding the death of style because in fact, we are bringing real style to the streets. We are not models, we are not celebrities, but we celebrate style and fashion on a daily basis. Magazines and editors should be happy because we are bringing your editorials to life. Instead of building a wall between us bloggers and your media empire, we all should be working closely because like it or not, this is the era of collaborations - cross country, cross category, cross age, cross everything. Now my 30% lies in a shameful agreement that yes, some bloggers are actually abusing the moment and they shouldn't. Us fashion bloggers should have more respect to the word "fashion" itself, because fashion is not just about the pretty clothes, but there's an actual history and progress and evolution behind it that we must understand and not ignore. Fashion is an actual study that must be carefully learnt, not just fun fun fun. So thank you, Vogue US, for being mean and blunt. At least you raised the topic.