Point, Click, Shoot, Fashion

In the thriving world of fashion blogging, snapping personal style shots and expressing personal outlooks on fashion is slowly but surely becoming a genderless trend. In fact, fashion blogging has begun to pave the way for the industry's evolution into a community that no longer focuses solely on the needs of women, but of men as well. Consider prevalent sites like The Sartorialist and Bryanboy- quintessential examples of industry insiders who remain relatively unbiased when it comes to fashion, addressing concepts that apply to all the style obsessed. From a more visual standpoint, however, fashion photo-bloggers are contributing to men's style more than ever. All courtesy should be paid to gentlemen like Jak and Jil's tommy Ton, Street Peeper's Phil Oh, and the aforementioned Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist for the generous spotlight.

As seen in the most recent men's shows in Europe, photo-bloggers are becoming much more accustomed to utilizing street gentlemen as inspirational subjects for their perspective entries, either drawing comparisons between men and women's style or just glorifying men's style itself. Either way, these Internet phenoms have played a substantial amount of influence on the growing popularity of men's fashion, allowing typical followers of women's blogs to parlay into new territories. After all, one can easily be as inspired by a man's ensemble than as a woman's. But there are always boundaries. The point of fashion is to push towards breaking them.

Text Ricardo Hernandez
Source(s): Tommy Ton