Check out our latest press on CBS news, the video of last night's broadcast on upper right. A huge thank you to Shannon Hori, our favorite CBS 11news anchor and one of our biggest supporters! The Bag Snob girls have a lot to be thankful for, especially for our readers without whom all of this would not be possible, Happy Thanksgiving all!
Here is our latest press. Thanks for reading our daily babbling, the press would not care about us if it weren't for you, our readers.
BLOG'S PURSES ARE FILLING UP
by Donna Goodison, Boston Herald, Nov. 8, 2007
They’re stay-at-home moms obsessed with designer handbags who, as a diversion, started blogging about the latest “arm candy” from the likes of Bottega Veneta, Chanel and Hermes.
Kelly Cook of Cambridge and Tina Craig of Dallas are the Bag Snobs. The 30-somethings, who met at the University of Southern California, started www.bagsnob.com just over a year ago. “When this idea came about, it was the perfect thing for us,” Cook said. “We’ve always been entrepreneurial and wanted to do something that fits our lifestyles of being moms.” Bag Snob’s mission is to help women overwhelmed with choices make informed decisions when forking over as much as $2,000 for a designer handbag.
“People really want to hear a true opinion, and we get that feedback a lot from our readers,” Cook said. “They appreciate our black-and-white views on fashion. Fashion magazines are very political.”
Cook’s fashion industry experience includes a stint with designer Mark Eisen, while Craig was a former MTV Asia veejay. But their real fashion sense comes from years of buying expensive handbags, starting as college students buying Prada bags with their parents’ credit cards.
“Tina and I would buy bags for each other, and we would tell our parents it was a gift,” Cook said. “They weren’t totally OK with it, but we thought we wouldn’t get into as much trouble.”
The bags they critique now are ones they’ve purchased or seen in stores. And they’re not timid about writing scathing reviews. “Jimmy Choo advertised with us,” Cook said. “We still ripped on the bags.”
Stylists: Hello Kelly and Visual Ray at Neiman Marcus
Moschino dress at Net-a-porter
The Bag Snob is the Stylephile featured in F!D this month. A big thank you to fashion writer Kristie Ramirez (Dallas Editor of Lucky Magazine) and her editor, Tracy Hayes, for making it happen!
Check it out, we were featured in Women's Wear Daily (the bible for fashion insiders) this week! Also profiled is our favorite soy latte guzzling fashion writer Kristopher Dukes and the Bling blog. The complete article here.
Thanks to Cate Corcoran, Tech Editor of Women's Wear Daily, for featuring Bag Snob as one of Top 5 Accessories Blogs!
Bag Snob Tina in Fendi, André in custom made suit lined in blue silk
When André Leon Talley, Editor At Large for VOGUE, enters a room he doesn't just appear, he swoops in and takes over with his larger than life charismatic personality. I was invited to a private luncheon with the fabulous André last Friday and he not only graciously granted us an interview but allowed us a peek into his life of style and imparts a few style tips to dress by.
We love Bravo cuz it's the home of Project Runway but we really love Bravo.com cuz their staff have impeccable taste in online publishers, as evident by Jamie T., who named Bag Snob a staffpick last month: "I agree with every assessment of every bag on this site!"
Now if they'd just ask us to join the panel of judges on Project Runway.... The Bag Snob girls are honest and opinionated, don't you think we'd be great on the show?
London Guardian complete article
Thanks to Furla Girl who sent me this article from London!
Hey, how 'bout it? We were featured in the London Times last week:
"The blog bagsnob.com is everything you would expect it to be from the name. Its alternately brutal and adoring approach is the kind that guarantees an avid readership. And brutal and slightly rude can be funny too. The BagSnob, for example, casts aside one $625 number: “I can find better bags in Chinatown or Mexico for a dollar." Miaow, as they say."
Looks like the Brits adore us =) We love them, too!! Wait, are we brutal and rude?
Our chic friend Furlagirl found a quote about us in the London Guardian magazine:
Dear Bag Snob,
There is a brief mention of you in yesterday's London Guardian, on the fashion pages in the magazine, in a section called The Measure, which is one of those going up/going down features. You are, of course, Going Up.
It's not online but here is what it says: 'Bagsnob.com The best website in the history of websites, like, ever!'
From Furlagirl
Thank you Furlagirl for alerting us to the latest Bag Snob Press!!! Please keep us posted on any other news you may read about Bag Snob!
