Olivia Palermo

[Zposen]

she sounds like a douche.

... such a try hard... she is even putting the Kartrashian to shame...

 

[0oYCRo0]

^ I noticed how douche-y she sounds when I saw her Project Runway appearance. Some people said that her way of criticizing was not rude but I definitely disagree with anyone who says that since I guess someone must have to be as rude or douche-y as her to not notice how inappropriate it is to talk as despectively about someone's creations as she did.

And I agree with a lot of people in here- her blog is still not inspiring at all. There's still nothing that catches the reader or viewer's attention. But I can't deny that maybe it's too early to reach into conclusions.

By now, I prefer to look at random pictures of her style and I'm not interested in what she has to say since, in my opinion, there's certain people that should keep their mouths shut if they don't want to ruin something and I think she's one of those...

 

[Caroliiine]

The difference in Olivia and her mother's styles is interesting to me because I believe Olivia said she got started in fashion by wearing her mother's pieces as a teen and part of her collection is made up of jewelery and accessories she inherited from her mother and grandmother. I thought we would see a bigger influence/similarity, although you can't really tell what her mother's style is by just one outfit.

I find it amusing that people are surprised her blog sounds pretentious/douche-y. I've been following this girl since the Socialite Rank scandal of 2006 and she has never come off as down to earth. Plus she has grown up surrounded by wealth and privilege. And there have been rumors of this snobby behavior on the Internet but they've always been dismissed as "no, that's just the way they portray her on The City, she's actually so different in real life". Obviously not every article is written by her but she is likely the one who made the decision on who was hired (based on writing samples), which means she chose to have this style of writing on her blog as a reflection of her.

 

[LifeNatureLove]

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....

I read that line and immediately clicked out of the page. That was ridiculous.

 

[gian-franco]

I read that line and immediately clicked out of the page. That was ridiculous.

Me too! Exactly this line made me not to want to read anymore.



If Olivia is reading this, she must understand her blog is awfull - it's people who are normally praising her speaking.

How soon do you think she's gonna change everything there?

 

[Boomer]

...she is even putting the Kartrashian to shame...

In my mind, that is as negative a standard as anyone can be judged by!!
Poor O- maybe it will turn around from here on out...

 

[kimair]

i don't think you have to personally know lauren conrad or rachel zoe to have seen their shows and know their personality...
when you read their blogs, it sounds like them, coming from the same point of view...
clearly they receive help (i never said they didn't), but they still make the content's voice consistent with the person whose name is on the masthead...
that's the problem with olivia's blog, she is let very little of herself be shown on the city and in interviews, you don't get a sense of who she really is, so her blog comes off as aloof and pretentious...
this was her chance to give us some insight into the "real" olivia, and instead it's poorly written with canned text, bad photography, and an uninspired design...

 

[loladonna]

that's the problem with olivia's blog, she is let very little of herself be shown on the city and in interviews, you don't get a sense of who she really is, so her blog comes off as aloof and pretentious..

I think she actually is aloof and pretentious and her blog is an accurate reflection of that.

 

[MissyJG]

Her mom looks quite old. She looks a lot more like her grandmother than her mother..

 

[meens]

I would bet good money that she doesn't write most of those entries. What I think happens, though, is that she gets final approval on the text and that kind of flowery pretentious voice is what she thinks sounds good.

The website is about selling her brand and her image through selling that fantasy lifestyle that every girl wants. But her people need to take a page from Kim Kardashian, who's life, like Olivia's, is beyond the reach of most people, but whose people write it in a relatable way so that the "average" girl on the street thinks that if she does her hair and make up like that and buys that same underwear, she's one step closer to the life.

 

[Gleam]

loladonna, I kind of agree with you. I don't know Olivia nor do I pretend to, but she does not come off as the kind of person I would really respect. I love her style, don't get me wrong... but she really is a bit pretentious. And to the previous poster who said Olivia grew up surrounded by "extreme wealth and privilege," well no, that's not really the case. She went to public schools in Connecticut and lived a very typically upper-middle class life in Greenwich (which yeah, is very different than upper-middle class Bakersfield, CA but it's still a far cry from the real wealth and privilege in NYC). Extreme wealth and privilege is actually what she's aspiring to, its not in her own background.

I think her career would've taken a different turn if she had, well, just been a nicer human being. Been a little civil, a little less pretentious, and little less of a try-hard. I know that she gets modeling gigs here and there, but the honest truth is that outside of us, not a lot of people care for or about her.

And now waiting to get flamed... sigh. I like Olivia, I like her style. But she's not really a nice human being or an authentic human being and that clearly comes across in every possible way.

 

[hanami]

Her "blog" is empty.... I really hope that things will change, because it is such disappointing...

 

[Zposen]

I think her career would've taken a different turn if she had, well, just been a nicer human being. Been a little civil, a little less pretentious, and little less of a try-hard. I know that she gets modeling gigs here and there, but the honest truth is that outside of us, not a lot of people care for or about her.

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Gleam, I could not have expressed it better. Olivia Palermo could have easily had a fashion career like the Olsen (or be on the same track) or Posh Beckman... had she been a tiny bit relatable or nice on 'The City'. In fact, I thought that was the only reason she signed on to be in a reality show was to build a mini empire... but she is not even close to that goal... mainly because she is not that marketable in the US.

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[Boomer]

^ I (unfortunately) agree...I was just thinking today how she has really lost her momentum and a year or so back she seemed to be on her way to being a big time fashion star, which honestly hasn't materialized...

 

[Lacroix]

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.

 

[franki]

Olivia can do so much more IMO. She can discuss trends on the runways and on the street since she pays attention to street fashion and is well travelled. I mean this is a girl who sit front row at Valentino, Dior, Giambattista Valli, etc.. and possible have access to the designers and their show rooms.... surely she has experienced/seen alot that can be elaborated into a great blog.

anyone here could do that too, though. the problem is that she insists she has some innate sense of style and knowledge about fashion. however, liking shopping and dressing up does not a fashion guru make. so people expect to see something more than any of us could write/read right here on TFS.

and the poorly written sentences about leather shorts etc just shows that she has no sound knowledge of fabrication, construction or styling. if she did surely it wouldn't be written so badly

 

[Caroliiine]

loladonna, I kind of agree with you. I don't know Olivia nor do I pretend to, but she does not come off as the kind of person I would really respect. I love her style, don't get me wrong... but she really is a bit pretentious. And to the previous poster who said Olivia grew up surrounded by "extreme wealth and privilege," well no, that's not really the case. She went to public schools in Connecticut and lived a very typically upper-middle class life in Greenwich (which yeah, is very different than upper-middle class Bakersfield, CA but it's still a far cry from the real wealth and privilege in NYC). Extreme wealth and privilege is actually what she's aspiring to, its not in her own background.

I didn't say that she grew up in extreme wealth and privilege, but she grew up with wealth and privilege. She attended Nightingale-Bamford and St. Luke's, which are both private schools. She bought her own apartment in NY when she was 21, got a Birkin for her 18th birthday, studied in Paris for a year... her family was among the 1%, not the 99%. I think most people in America would say that's a privileged life.

 

[mrsjamesdean]

Just read her blog and I noticed each post does tell who the 'author' is... despite her team her of 'writers' even they the lack that skill to engage with the readers and the art direction is a joke, someone could easily do better on blogspot.
I was hoping to see a personal side of her like you guys mentioned following her on the Vogue UK daily outfits were fun and we saw a glimpse of her life.

 

[advo]

^ I noticed how douche-y she sounds when I saw her Project Runway appearance. Some people said that her way of criticizing was not rude but I definitely disagree with anyone who says that since I guess someone must have to be as rude or douche-y as her to not notice how inappropriate it is to talk as despectively about someone's creations as she did.

She was a JUDGE. She was there to critique the clothes, and she was no more "rude" than the other judges.

From her appearance on PR, I think she does have a good sense for and knowledge of style which is reflected in her fashion style. But can she convey that through text and a blog? That remains to be seen.

As for all these judgement on her character, she could also just be very reserved. I find it curious that she's far more liked in the UK than US.

 

[hanami]

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.

I agree with everything!