>> Apologies as I’m still not so useful or functional as a fashion blogger right now because my iMac keyboard is literally rejecting my coarsened non-creative, hands caked in paint, plaster and sawdust. This time will pass, and just to prove that there’ll be no prolonged stop gap, I’m actually writing this from my new house complete with just-installed super duper speedy broadband. I won’t evade the fashions and the internets for long.
In the meantime though, you might have sauntered along to the blog to find that there’s been a bit of an update to the design. It was reported back in September but it has taken a while to port my lug of a blog over to the new platform but yes, I am now officially part of NowManifest. It was like some spoof comedy when someone at New York Fashion Week stuck a microphone in my face to ask, if “on the record”, I was joining NowManifest, as though my blog being a part of a mere ad network was of real significance to the world at large. “No comment” would have been the appropriate answer but I just shrugged and said “Errr…yeah? And?”
It’s been ingrained in me for as long as I can remember to pole position myself into defensive mode whenever I do anything that has a hint of the mercenary about it. I have ads on my page – sorry sorry sorry. I have worked with this brand – sorry sorry sorry. I got a free ride at fashion week – sorry sorry sorry. I did not get paid to write about this designer – sorry sorry sorry. I know I’m British and all but search for the S word and you might agree its presence is excessive. Even now, I’m standing on the precipice of saying it again. The short story is that I joined Now Manifest for a number of reasons – to free up my time to concentrate on creating more in depth content, to be a bit more profesh about the way I work with advertising and the obvious thing being that I have now been saddled with a mortgage. It shouldn’t really need explaining to complete strangers but then again, none of you have ever felt like that to me over the course of the years. The bottom line is that content wise, nothing will change and there may be a few glitches still to sort out design and image wise as the old Typepad blog will be Resting in Peace very soon. Thank you to my sister Louisa Lau for jigging everything about so that I don’t have a blog identity crisis.
In addition to the new house, new locale and a new (sort of) look on the blog, I’ve also found myself in a new decade. I thought I was going to be tempted to write a polemic about saying adieu to my twenties. But to be honest, I’ve not really given the transition too much thought. Today being my birthday has passed by much like any other. I haven’t suddenly put on 20lbs and my eyes haven’t become wrinkled walnuts as yet. I haven’t sensed anything momentous about what it means to be thirty yet despite all the “older” folk telling me how fabulous their thirties are or were. Much like the blog change, it’s move along, carry on and more of the same place as usual. Talk to me in a few days time when I’ve had more time to think about the fact that there are potentially bloggers, young journalists and interns who don’t know who New Kids on the Block are.
As for my style, which supposedly is meant to undergo some sort of decades-related shift because all the “wimen’s” magazines say that that is the case, I have this picture, shot by Piczo for a small feature in i-D Magazine about being a collector of clothes, that will always serve to remind me how impossible it would be to live without all the clothes that would be considered overly brash and brazen on the eye to most.
Congrats on the move, Susie! They’re lucky to have you 😉 Oh, and—happy birthday!
This looks beautiful. Growth is not something to be sorry for! Happy Birthday & welcome to 30 🙂
Congratulations on the move (both home and blog) and happy birthday, Susie! I’ve been reading Style Bubble from the days when it was still pink and green and had the Marie Antoinette (I think?) figure on the header, and for what it’s worth, it makes me really, really happy to see talent and hard work like yours earning some well-deserved respect from the fashion industry. (also, your integrity has never been in doubt, for me – you have absolutely no need to apologise to anyone. )
hey no biggie man. still glad to know that the content will be the same old same old…in the best way possible.
It’s all happening… happy birthday and im glad about both moves, it feels like you and your blog are moving on to bigger and better things.
Looking forward to the future!
Susie
Sometimes a change is as good as a holiday.
All the best with your move & congrats on the new website. Looks fab!
Suzi x
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Wherever you are, I hope you’ll enjoy everything you do and be fulfilled with it. I wish you luck and more powers with you.
No problem with a change! My site recently went through a major renovation and I never realized how challenging it would be on a personal level. But it’s also a relief, a change of the curtains but not the home behind them. It looks wonderful and I’ll always be a fan.
Happy Birthday and congrats on your new home and new look blog. It’s nearly six years since I started Rosiepop after I turned 30 and various major changes happened and your blog was and remains inspiration. Thanks so much. 🙂
the blog looks great! Looking forward to see more great posts from u!
The move is exciting! This is going to be a great chance for growth. You’re a tremendous inspiration to me and everyone who has an eye for “over the top” fashion. Don’t ever change that. Happy Birthday!
Good really very good and i have a question for you why don’t you choose me……………even I’m eager to stand on that place
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I love the switch to NM. Everything looks super sleek and uncluttered now. Super easy to navigate – I like that it still has a bit of a twist with the details at the top and your social media widgets at the bottom. Well done to Louisa for helping with the switch over! xx
Yes – you’ve finally switched over. And you’ve written about it in a very Susie way. I am glad you have assured me that the content will stay the same as that is what I was worried about as soon as I visited and saw the new layout.
Kiri
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Hi Suzie, welcome to your thirties!! And congrats on your move both in house and blog situation. Suzie in the New Year do you think I could come over and roll around in all your clothes and whichever garment i stop spinning on I could have? Just kidding- but seriously my girlfriends think I have an enviable dress up closet! Ha!
Bisous
from
Montreal
A belated happy birthday to you Susie, and a big congrats on the house, on turning 30, on the blog changeover and really…everything. You have so much to be proud of, the hard work you’ve put in has paid off, and you deserve it all 🙂