Olivia Palermo

[loladonna]

Horrible human being? Really? I think we as a society have become a little warped in the way we perceive things especially in terms of the media and celebrities. We feel like we know them if we watch a reality show and can make in depth judgements on them and their personalities (whether it be that a person carefully portrayed and depicted to be wholesome is therefore a lovely person or if a person who is horrible is evil). Is she a horrible person? Could be. Is she lovely? Maybe not but who are we to know? She's put her style out there and that's what I'll choose to judge her on.

Also, I'm actually surprised at the opportunities she has had since The City ended since none of the other cast members have been heard of much. How Olivia managed to secure these large scale campaigns like Mango and Hogan etc I'll never know. Plus there were the various international Vogue mentions and other such publications. I wouldn't think that suggested that the only people who knew about her were those in this TFS thread. America isn't the world after all, if that's what people mean when they say she's irrelevant.

No amount of editing can claim responsiblity for the way Olivia came across in her attitude and her words on The City. That is something Olivia has to take responsibility for herself. If she were that great an actress she should be vying for roles alongside Carey Mulligan. I get tired of people signing up for reality shows, acting ridiculous, then crying "That wasn't really me! It was editing! I was playing a character!" It's complete rubbish. If you're willing to purposefully make yourself look bad on a reality show, at the very least you are a fool.

Olivia has had the same opportunities as most It Girls of the moment. She's pretty and dresses nice so she'll get a few campaigns and some media notoriety-- at least outside the U.S. But alas It Girls have a shorter and shorter shelf life. She'll be replaced by the next younger prettier girl with style and unless she develops some sort of skill or personality. I'm not sure what she will do besides show up to the opening of an envelope to be photographed. In the U.S. successful brand-building hinges upon the likeability of the person and she does not have that in her favor at the moment. I can see her being like Paris Hilton who remains a superstar abroad but completely irrelevant here in the States.

 

[LuellaLuella]

I really hope Olivia is writing this herself and not paying for a professional writer. I'm a freelance copywriter and some of my writing appears under other people's names. If she did indeed hire a ghostwriter for her blog, she needs to find another one.

The writing on her blog is really stilted. It's written like an ESL student who has read too many Victorian novels. I really like Olivia but I find her writing unbearable.

For example: "Hardly can one flip through a fashion magazine or scroll through a style blog without coming across a feature that waxes poetically about the ballet flat."

The grammar isn't even correct.

Cringe....

That wasn't written by Olivia.
But still, I agree the post she did write was awful.

 

[Kate_Moore]

But the whole point about her blog is that everybody is talking about it, for good or for bad. Everybody was talking about it before it launched, during and after.

 

[franki]

^ that is true. but as far as we know ''everybody'' is just everybody here, because we knew about it before it was launched. but to GAIN readers some big changes will need to be made.

 

[styleismatic]

"Her" blog could be anyone else's, the problem with it that Olivia is missing from it.

 

[hanami]

A POST BY OLIVIA HERSELF !!! Love the way she writes, fresh and natural, love love love!

PS: Fire all your "writers" and do you blog by yourself Liv'

 

[LuellaLuella]

That was better than her previous post because it was less pretentious and seemed less overly thought about. She was, however, lacking in good punctuation and tends to overuse the words 'peppered' and 'smattering'.

God, that sounded like a school report

 

[mordant]

The "Stepping into Spring" post was much better than her first posts, and much more on par with what I was expecting from her blog: a discussion of collections with a little bit of lifestyle and styling. There is still an air of pretension, especially towards the end of the post. But still, much improved.

 

[littlepaperstars]

It was much better written, I agree, the grammar has left a lot be be desired but the "It also gave me the opportunity to visit friends and help them prepare for their spring 2012 shows." Really? Oh please. I like the girls style, but I'd really rather have it without the great big dollop of self-importance please.

 

[GetCloser]

it got my attention that after her very first post, all you see when you scroll down is thousands of fb messages saying how great the blog is and that they're all looking forward to read upcoming posts.... and here in tfs, we all dislike it! how come?

It was disappointing for me too, english isnt my mother language so i probably dont notice as many spelling mistakes as you guys, but definitely thats bad image for her... and judging the whole design and look of the blog itself, it definitely doesn't look like you have a whole team working for/with you. Thousands blogs out there are better than hers and 20-something bloggers don't have any help, so im definitely waiting for some improvements.

 

[advo]

"Her" blog could be anyone else's, the problem with it that Olivia is missing from it.

Disagree. The problem is the blog lacks ANY personality at all .

 

[0oYCRo0]

it got my attention that after her very first post, all you see when you scroll down is thousands of fb messages saying how great the blog is and that they're all looking forward to read upcoming posts.... and here in tfs, we all dislike it! how come?

I guess that that's happening because on this site we're supposed to be a little bit more knowledgeable or at least just more into fashion overall than maybe a lot of those people that post on her blog, therefore we are a lot more demanding.

 

[Gleam]

^^^^^^
I agree that we're just a more discerning audience than a collection of random fangirls on Facebook. Not to mention that Olivia's people or Olivia herself no doubt delete any negative comments on FB whereas they can't do that here.

I actually think the blog is an embarrassment to Olivia.

 

[godsavethhequeen]

oliviapalermo.com

 

[lvstratus]

^that fur coat is

 

[lola rose]

Those Tibi burgundy pants are great!

 

[eu-pt]

^ I love the first look! <3

 

[eu-pt]

Just been reading the post @ Olivia's blog and must say that this is exactly the kind of post I was looking for to read at her blog. I know it's not signed by Olivia but it has Olivia's what I'm wearing plus advice and selection with links to some nice items. This is more like it.

godsavethhequeen, can't give you more karma, thanks for posting the picts.

 

[EnVogueLove]

The fur outfit is really bad, but the first one is great!

 

[NOE]

She lost me in her "letter from the editor" with this:

"They want the inside track, which I, of course, could not possibly provide. They also wanted to see all of my hidden treasures and finds that I sourced during my jaunt. It’s curious to me as none of them are in fashion..."

Besides coming off as pretentious and trying too hard... Is she also unaware? Not everyone who loves fashion and is curious about fashion is IN fashion. I would hope as someone who claims to want her own fashion line one day would know this.

And by "source", did you just mean "purchase"? And by "jaunt", did you just mean "trip". For the love of...

Regardless, I still enjoy any new photo we get from her... will checking back frequently. Ha!