Walking directions for models backstage @bcbg. I would add “smile!” Not enough smiling in fashion. #nyfw pic.twitter.com/eY46IaWcFu
— booth1 (@booth1) February 6, 2014
New York Fashion Week began Thursday and, along with designers, models and the very fashionable came reporters who’ll cover it.
Every fashion week I think the same thing: HOW CAN THERE BE SO MANY PEOPLE COVERING THIS? — Stella Bugbee (@stellabugbee) February 6, 2014
Jocelyn Noveck, a culture reporter for the Associated Press, has covered Fashion Week for the last three or four years and, like any thing else, it’s a beat and details matter.
“I would think that people might look at it and say, this is so simple,” Noveck told Poynter in a phone interview, “and it’s not so simple.”
Reporters can’t just write about a red dress or vera pelle bags, she said. What was the material? How was it made? What was the designer’s inspiration and theme (those get kind of out there, like the Dutchess of Cambridge, or a pair of ancient scrolls, she said.) Noveck also tries to capture the the mood as well as the venue, and sometimes the weather is also part of the story. Last year, the Proenza Schouler show was at a very-hard-to-find location, stumping even Novak’s seasoned cab driver, and that detail led her story.
Whether you’re paying attention or not to New York Fashion Week, it will trickle down, she said, just like Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada” pointed out.
“It’s part of our responsibility to show how it’s relevant,” Noveck said. (And, I should point out, lots of people are paying attention. Noveck told me that, after the AP’s main Twitter account, @AP_Fashion is the second largest for the company.)
Here are some suggestions for journalists to follow on Twitter for New York Fashion Week. I know there are tons more, so if you see people I’ve missed, please send them my way at khare@poynter.org. Here’s the list I’ve started on Twitter.
Associated Press: Leanne Italie, Nicole Evatt and Jocelyn Noveck The New York Times: Simone S. Oliver, John Koblin, Matthew Schneier, Stuart Emmrich, Jon Caramanica, and Guy Trebay
DVF met Bill de Blasio today. “You’re one of us,” she told him http://t.co/O5oJ6MYcPt — John Koblin (@koblin) February 6, 2014
A lot of Blue Steel on the Lincoln Center Plaza today. — Matthew Schneier (@MatthewSchneier) February 6, 2014
T Magazine: Deborah Needleman, Bruce Pask, Malina Joseph Gilchrist and Edward Barsamian
My ride for #NYFW? A horse drawn carriage of course. No doubt @theLadyGrantham would approve. pic.twitter.com/ReO9p6ISAw — Edward Barsamian (@EdwardBarsamian) February 7, 2014
Los Angeles Times: Booth Moore and Adam TschornÂ
Dear PR person who e-mailed: ” How Clean Is Your Tothbrush?” I’m going to with: “Cleaner Than Your Proofreading.” — Adam Tschorn (@ARTschorn) February 6, 2014
Wall Street Journal: Elizabeth Holmes and Katherine Bernard
.@CreaturesOTW serenity now pic.twitter.com/7rvv9WuX66 — Katherine Bernard (@meta_porter) February 6, 2014
The Huffington Post: Julee Wilson, Raydene Salinas and Dana Oliver. Wilson wrote this about black fashion and beauty editors to follow along with this week, too, (chic hat tip to Wilson, I included several of them here.)
#ThinkCoffee double #espresso pit stop before going backstage at @costellotagliapietra! #NYFW #MBFW pic.twitter.com/yMeot1iB46 — RAYDENE (@RaydeneSalinas) February 6, 2014
The Washington Post:Â Follow along with their Twitter account for a number of features and videos from Fashion Week.
The (un)glamorous life of modeling and nail artistry @prabalgurung #FW14 #NYFW pic.twitter.com/7RO9YLNHD3
— Post Style (@PostStyle) February 8, 2014
There are so many magazines that I know I’m just skimming the surface, but here’s a sampling.
Teen Vogue: Elaine Welteroth
Glamour: Nikki Ogunnaike, Rajni JacquesÂ
Ebony Magazine: Ericka GoodmanÂ
Vogue: Meredith Melling, Caroline Palmer
Women’s Wear Daily: Erik Maza
graces jones hulahooping and performing slave to the rhythm last night. (In Jurassic Park narrator voice) … http://t.co/LkICgzfzFS — erik maza (@erik_maza) February 6, 2014
Ebony Magazine: Marielle Bobo
InStyle: Dana Avidan-Cohn
Harpers BAZAAR: Joyann King, Julie KosinÂ
New York Magazine: Emily Shornick, Rebecca Ramsey, Robin Givhan, Stella Bugbee, Leah RodriguezÂ
YES @BCBGMAXAZRIA. I’ve been trying to bring back the muff, arguably best accessory from childhood. pic.twitter.com/yHGIJSEBHM
— Leah Rodriguez (@leahrod) February 6, 2014
