{"id":36612,"date":"2013-07-03T09:11:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T08:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=36612"},"modified":"2013-07-03T09:11:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T09:11:03","slug":"journalist-spotlight-rosie-fortescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/journalist-spotlight-rosie-fortescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Spotlight: Rosie Fortescue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Made in Chelsea star Rosie Fortescue\u2019s <\/b><\/span>At Fashion Forte<\/b><\/a> blog came fourteenth in Cision’s\u00a0<\/b><\/span>Top 20 UK Fashion Blogs<\/b><\/a>. On being named one of the most influential fashion bloggers, Rosie said: \u2018It is a huge honour. It\u2019s really great to be acknowledged in that way.\u2019 <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Rosie spoke to Cision about street style, working with PRs and loving leather trousers. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\"RosieWhen did you start your blog?<\/b><\/span>
I started it in the final term of my third year at Goldsmiths University, where I was studying History of Art. I knew I was going to be filming for the show and thought it would be a great way to start up the blog. I think one of the key things when you\u2019re starting up a blog is having the time commitments for it and you need a focus of where you\u2019re going to begin with it instead of it being a mishmash of various topics.<\/p>\n

I wanted to introduce new designers that I came across, whether they were accessories, jewellery or fashion designers, and documenting my outfits from the show. I started filming Made in Chelsea in my final term and documenting my outfits; I saved the images and when the show aired I would upload them. It has now developed into a street style blog.\u00a0<\/p>\n

How does the blog work with Made in Chelsea?<\/b><\/span>
I always watched televisions shows when I was younger and wanted to know where their clothes were from. At Fashion Forte is just a way of me enabling the Made in Chelsea viewers to know where my outfits are from. It\u2019s a good reference for the viewers to see what I was wearing and access my wardrobe. There was this big thing when we started the show \u2013 were people going to like it, was it going to be everyone\u2019s cup of tea \u2013 so it was a nice way for me to make myself accessible to the fans and answer their questions.<\/p>\n

The comment section on my blogs often becomes a help and advice section really. People ask things like what make up to wear for pale skin or what to wear to prom. I do all the community management myself; I\u2019ll do my best to try and respond to any questions. I think it\u2019s nice to reply and reach out to people; you don\u2019t want to be an aloof figure, a machine who is cold and is too good to reply to people. It\u2019s good to reply and give advice, a lot of the fans are quite young and it\u2019s nice for them to get a response from people they admire.<\/p>\n

As someone in the public eye, do you find yourself dealing with trolls?<\/span>
<\/b>I don\u2019t have a lot of it but I did. I went through the stage with the same people saying, \u2018You\u2019re really pale\u2019.\u00a0 That\u2019s an obvious thing to say. I personally don\u2019t like fake tan; people will soon realise that there\u2019s never been somebody on the cover of Vogue who\u2019s been orange. It\u2019s just a maturity thing, people will grow up and realise that fake tan and being orange isn\u2019t the be all and end all. It\u2019s also giving inspiration to people who want to stick to their roots and be different rather than following the crowd and doing something because everybody else is.<\/p>\n

How do you choose what outfits to feature?<\/span> <\/b>
It\u2019s all my personal choice. Obviously with street style I\u2019ll have a quite a few people who email me saying: \u2018I\u2019m an up-and-coming brand, it would be an honour to be featured on your blog\u2019. I only feature brands that I like so I am not ever going to wear anything that doesn\u2019t represent me and my style. The same applies to my outfits on the show.<\/p>\n

Some things are gifted or samples but a lot of it is from my own wardrobe. Some bloggers really focus on just the current season\u2019s style and borrowing from PRs before it\u2019s available in shops. It\u2019s nice for my readers to buy the clothes at the time, and I\u2019ll link to the brand\u2019s website whenever possible.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you\u2019ve got to be realistic; it\u2019s not a bad thing if you\u2019re wearing a shirt from Zara that\u2019s two seasons old. You don\u2019t always have to be wearing the newest pieces because that\u2019s ridiculous. I work style into my wardrobe; I\u2019ll do some smarter looks that will make people think: \u2018I can wear that for a summer party or a smart dinner\u2019, and then I have a chilled-out section as well.<\/p>\n

How do you plan your street style posts?<\/b><\/span>
My photographer Charlotte Summers<\/a> comes to my flat and we\u2019ll drink tea and chat, and I\u2019ll have previously laid out outfits on my bed. Essentially I\u2019ll meet her once a week or every ten days \u2013 it depends how super busy I am. It\u2019s not like I call her every day being like quick, come over, take a picture. It\u2019s more of a planned thing and I\u2019ll have maybe five outfits depending when I know I will next see her. If I have an evening off, I can publish images she\u2019s sent me from a couple of days before instead of having to find the time to do it every day. We\u2019ll do maybe five to seven looks in one morning; we\u2019ll go down from my flat to the street take the pictures and then go back up. It must look really weird to passers-by.<\/b><\/p>\n

What\u2019s your approach to disclosure?<\/b><\/span>
I don\u2019t disclose gifted items, but not many of the outfits are. A lot are loaned. It depends with timings for the show; if there\u2019s a certain event on the show, say a 1920s themed party, we\u2019ll all speak to PRs and maybe borrow something. If it\u2019s another black-tie thing and I\u2019ve worn my favourite dress two weeks before, so that I don\u2019t wear it again (even though in real life I would probably wear it again) I\u2019ll loan something from a PR. We don\u2019t all have endless wardrobes for themed parties.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got quite a few PRs that I speak to so maybe I\u2019ll email someone directly and ask for something. I\u2019ve got friends in PR as well. If it\u2019s an event in London in the evening, I wouldn\u2019t have time to go and pick something out and try it on. But if it\u2019s the BAFTAs, then everyone obviously wants to scout around and borrow something.<\/b><\/p>\n

How do you deal with being sent things?<\/b><\/span>
It can be difficult because people will send things to my agent\u2019s office. I don\u2019t really like taking things from people \u2013 even if it\u2019s just from high street website \u2013 unless I know it\u2019s to my style and I\u2019ll wear it the whole time. If I was only going to wear it once, I definitely wouldn\u2019t accept it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s difficult when you get sent something that isn\u2019t your style and they expect you to tweet because you haven\u2019t really agreed that they could send anything anyway. At the same time, it\u2019s all part of my brand \u2013 my Twitter, my Instagram, my blog \u2013 so I\u2019m never going to put something on there just because I feel bad. I think these people have a cost set aside for gifts and they send stuff out regardless and just hope that someone will be seen out in it.<\/p>\n

How often do you meet other bloggers?<\/b><\/span>
Not often, though I recently went to the Isle of White festival with River Island and Emily Johnston of Fashion Foie Gras<\/a>. It was really great to meet her because she\u2019s so nice. It was great to have some blogging and fashion chat, but also meet the person behind the
\n blog.<\/p>\n

Are you happy to attend events?<\/span>
<\/b>If it\u2019s a good event or a film I want to see and it\u2019s a premiere, then I\u2019ll go. But I don\u2019t go to everything purely because I don\u2019t have time and I also don\u2019t want to turn up to the opening of an envelope. I don\u2019t get forced to go to things and if it\u2019s not on brand for me, I won\u2019t go.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Take Five<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/b><\/b>What one item of clothing could you not live without?<\/b>\u00a0<\/span>
Leather trousers; I love wearing them during the day with some ankle boots, a jumper or shirt \u2013 I just think they\u2019re so great. They\u2019re the kind of thing you can mix up day or night, they look great with a silk shirt, blazer and some heels \u2013 a sexy look by night but more grungy by day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/b><\/b>Who are your style icons?<\/b><\/span>
I would say Miranda Kerr and Olivia Palermo. Miranda obviously being a mother, she\u2019s super busy and she dresses perfectly during the day: jeans, heels and an equipment shirt, or she\u2019s wearing a leather pencil skirt in the evening. I love the way that she plays around with fabrics, which is what I do. Olivia Palermo obviously always looks immaculate and wears a lot of colour which inspires me to wear more colour too.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/b>What\u2019s your favourite fashion brand?<\/b><\/span>
Phillip Lim. I remember when I was 16 I saved up for an amazing top which I still wear with leather trousers or jeans in the evening. It was just such a great thing to save up to do; a real investment piece you\u2019re going to wear for years.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/b>What would your super power be?<\/b><\/span>
Teleporting would be good to jump from meeting to meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/b>Who would play you in a film? Would it be you?<\/b>\u00a0
<\/span>I\u2019m bad at acting and I can\u2019t act so I\u2019d say Leighton Meester, because I\u2019ve always wanted to know where her clothes were from when she was on Gossip Girl. Or Emily Blunt \u2013 I love her, she\u2019s like an English Rose.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Editorial information on Rosie Fortescue, At Fashion Forte and thousands of other media contacts and outlets, can be found in the<\/span> CisionPoint<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Media Database<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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