Head on over to The Bomb Life for a fun post celebrating 10 years of Fashion Bomb Daily fabulosity!
I promise I wanted to craft something more memorable, pensive, or reflective, but I this morning looked up, saw the date, and thought: Wow! It’s been 10 years!
An excerpt:
Thursdays are always for Throwbacks, and I always want to reflect on where I was several years ago, on the date of my latest entry.
While preparing breakfast this morning, I realized that I started Fashion Bomb Daily approximately 10 years ago, today.
I had to go back 3,224 pages on the current site to get to that first post, penned August 29th, 2006.
It was a Claire’s Life post without a picture of me (I would eventually emerge at FBD’s One Year Anniversary). I wrote, “Welcome to my humble, humble blog. I’m a twenty-something year old in a city and an industry where fabulosity is EXTREMELY important. I love to write (ask my friends who receive my e-mail novellas everday), hang out with my buddies, and…SHOP! I’m absolutely, positively addicted. I’m the type of person who’d rather have a cute dress than a balanced meal, would rather spend a Saturday in Soho stores than sunning, and would take shoes over security….Come along with me as I search for bargain cute pieces, investment items, and everything in between!”
Little did I know at the time that my journey would take me all over the world, from the Caribbean to Europe to Africa and beyond.
That I would meet the world’s A-list, one party and fashion show at a time, and build lasting relationships with readers that spanned the globe.
I had no idea the adventures I would partake in, the things I would see or do. The people I would touch, and who would touch me.
I met every situation with wild abandon, with endless hope and faith that all would turn out right, even in the face of adversity. The fashion industry is not kind, especially to people of color, but I managed to make the best out of it, doing what I could with the resources I had available to me.
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We will be doing lots to celebrate 10 years (and almost 1 million followers on Instagram woohoo!). Stay tuned to this space for updates. Read the rest of my thoughts on TheBombLife.com.
Smootches!
