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Grab your copy of Women's Wear Daily today to read all about Bag Snob at Fashion Week!

The Power of a Post:
Kelly Cook and Tina Chen Craig were housewives - albeit ones who owned their own Chloe Paddingtons - simply blogging about their love for designer bags until they "outted" a fake handbag site. Today, they aren't shy to say that they, as bloggers called the BagSnob, are responsible for selling out designer bags that have their stamp of approval. "Anya Hindmarch is the best example of the kind of influence we can have on one designer," elaborates Cook. "We featured the Alessandra bag a few months ago and all their stores were inundated with calls. This bag was sold out within days." Cook and Craig make a post nearly every day about one bag or another, detailing aspects of the bag that would otherwise never make it to magazines - like how the Bottega Veneta Anaconda Lucida Lux is a slouchy frame bag that will never lose its shape or how one bag (shall remain unnamed) is a "been-there-done-that military inspired Mulberry knock-off". These brutally frank reviews are just what readers keep coming back for to the snobs for bag advice.

Bazaar's top 5 picks:
Bagsnob: Hilarious reviews of the current bags to hit shelves - "it" or not, these two bag-lovers say it like it is. Now celebrity bloggers in their own right, they take on the big brands daily, revealing what they feel is misguided design sense, shoddy workmanship or just plain ugliness in their irreverent know-it-all style.

Love and thanks to our devoted reader, Brendan of [vogue] , for typing the article out for us!

New Kids on the Blog

Bag Snob dishes the blog phenom with China Morning Post! The fashion editor of a newspaper in the least fashionable city in America should take note, over a billion people in China have.

I am still in LA and am exhausted from a whirlwind of activities. We have been up to lots of fun stuff, including appearances in the new series from E! Style Network and E! International named "25 most Stylish" , it's a series of countdown shows of the top 25 fashion icons, red carpet looks, celeb couples, etc. There will be a total of 6 episode in the series that will be broadcast globally to 660 million viewers! We are in 3 episodes along with (are you ready?)... Tom Ford (to die right?!?!), the legendary Paul Cavaco, Tamara Mellon and a few other illustrious fashion figures. To say that we were awe struck in the company of this group would be an understatement. Look for us in this fabulous new series starting November!

Anaconda or Python? You thought it was a matter of taste but you are really taking a position in a global debate over which slithering creature is more at risk of endangerment! Vanessa O'Connell from the Wall Street Journal interviewed me after seeing the story on my Bottega Anaconda and my love of exotics. Watch for us in another WSJ article this week, we were interviewed twice in one day by the New York and Dallas WSJ bureaus, purely a coincidence but we still felt very serious and quite smart ;). Needless to say, our husbands are thoroughly impressed as they are better versed in the Wall Street Journal than in Vogue.

Full WSJ article here.

Perhaps a little TMI but we were flattered to be featured by GlamLive for a little fun questionnaire about ourselves. You probably know all about our closets by now so here is a little glimpse of the rest of us. I wasn't really thinking when I answered these questions, some of them are kinda embarrassing! Maybe we were a little too honest, but I guess that's what you guys are here for, our no holds barred, tell them like it is, honesty =)

We love it when our online friends give us props. Here are two sites who have shown us love in recent weeks.

Su and Cris from Stiletto Effect list their fave bloggers.

Thanks, Dory for the lovely profile on Bag Snob!

The Chicago Tribune wants to know if this environmental bag craze is a real trend. The Bag Snob is quoted in the article saying I go for plastic for now but only in cases of extremely leaky chicken! I use the I'm Not a Plastic Bag for all my shopping now and if I do occasionally ask for the one plastic bag here and there, I am still saving many many with each shopping trip. Not to be defensive or anything =) Read on for the whole story.