Blog Love - Kat George from stylelines

Welcome to Blog Love, a series of posts by Courtney Awesome. This series will give readers a greater insight into what makes a good blogger and how much more than a shitty, self obsessed online diary a fashion blog can be. Our first profile is of Australian blogger Kat George.

Kat George spent some time in London and has honed her fashion writing over at Dazed and Confused. She has exceptional style and is not known for hiding her opinions on fashion, which is more than a passion for her. Her writing is smooth, detailed and professional - with sass and jazz in all the right places. Kat is seriously one to watch. The girl has the determination and talent to get her name off your screen and into your glossies!

FULL NAME
Kat George
AGE
23
LOCATION
Melbourne

WHY DID YOU START YOUR BLOG?
I used to do a street style blog and I felt like it was naturally progressing into an area I wasn't happy with so I started my own blog to satisfy the control freak within. That, and to keep myself writing. I want to be a writer so the blog is essentially a really fun way to propel that, as I'm able to pour myself into something I really love, and at the same time practice my art and keep my writer's cap working hard.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE POST THAT YOU HAVE WRITTEN AND WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Probably 'Heart throb hair'. It was just something really silly that I really enjoyed writing up, I even got a few cheeky giggles out of it as I reminisced about how cringe worthy I was as a teenager. View post here.

WHO IS YOUR FAVOURITE BLOG/BLOGGER?
Susie Bubble! stylebubble.co.uk

WHERE DO YOU DO MOST OF YOUR BLOGGING?
Where ever I can, especially now that I have mobile blogging. Isn't technology wonderful?

DO YOU LOOK AT BLOGS THE SAME WAY YOU WOULD LOOK AT MAGAZINES OR ONLINE MAGAZINES, WEBSITES, ETC?
No, I don’t think so. Print media has a certain romance for me that blogs can never have. Blogs are a quick fix, I might spend half an hour to an hour a day getting snapshots of people's wardrobes, street fashion etc, but there's a certain thrill I just can’t shake of going to the news agency when a new magazine comes out. Trotting out of a store with a mag bundled under my arm and knowing I'm about to sneak away from the world with coffee, cake for a listless afternoon is priceless. Magazines give me a complete experience, where as blogs give me immediacy and fast information. They are both essential in my life, but for really different reasons.

HOW DO YOU FEEL PERCIEVED AS A BLOGGER?
I haven't decided yet. At the end of the day I still want my name in print, so I'm quite conflicted. On one hand I enjoy being part of this very rapidly expanding cultural discourse that constantly changes the way we disseminate and absorb information. On the other hand I don't want to be 'branded' a blogger- I want to be able to branch out into different media forums without that preconceived stigma attached.

WHAT DO YOU DO ASIDE FROM BLOGGING?
I'm a student studying Law/Media & Communications at Melbourne Uni, unfortunately into my 6th year. I'm also a freelance journalist.

WHO ARE YOUR FAVORITE DESIGNERS?
That's really hard! I love a lot of different designers in equal amounts but for very different reasons, so I'm a afraid I can't really answer that question!

ARE YOU A FAN OF ANY AUSTRALIAN LABELS?
I love Australian fashion, and I want to champion local talent as much as I can. I especially love Alpha60, I'd say they were a wardrobe favourite for me. If I had the money, I'd be all over Tina Kalivas and Arnsdorf. In terms of fresher faces I've fallen head over heels in love with Emma Rea and Carly Hunter. Shall I go on?

DO YOU THINK AUSTRALIAN FASHION DESIGN DIFFERS FROM OTHER DESIGNERS AROUND THE WORLD? HOW SO?
Of course. Australian fashion is trans-seasonal, we don't have an extreme winter so collections tend to be more seasonally ambiguous than overseas collections. We also have a completely self contained, self sustaining industry so we produce clothes with a uniquely Australian attitude, which I think is generally laid back, practical, with a very natural, earthy beauty. Australian fashion excels when it's being itself, and flounders when it tries to emulate European trends.

WHAT ARE YOU PSYCHED ON AT THE MOMENT?
Wolverine! No seriously, have you seen the new movie? I'm also obsessively hunting for the perfect pair of black wedges, preferably ankle booties, but no luck yet.

WHAT IS THE BEST EXPERIENCE BLOGGING HAS GIVEN YOU?
Probably leading me to my internship at Dazed Digital.

YOUR FAVORITE WEBSITE?
Twitter!

WHAT ARE YOU WEARING RIGHT NOW?
I've been sitting here for a while trying to decide whether honesty really is the best policy and in the end I decided to go for broke- I'm wearing my old high school tracksuit jumper and black tights. Sexy.

WHAT OR WHO SHOULD THE WORLD BE LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW?
Beyonce- Diva.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF STREET STYLE PHOTO BLOGS?
I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with street style photos. They're a dime a dozen these days, and generally they're completely subjective and based on the photographers personal tastes, which is fine, but it means that many of them don't really appeal to me. I like Jak & Jil Blog.

HAVE YOU HAD TO DEAL WITH ANY HATERS IN YOUR INTERNET EXPERIENCE? HOW DOES IT MAKE YOU FEEL AND WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO DEAL WITH IT?
Don't let the bastards get you down. Seriously. I've copped quite a bit of flack over the past year, but none of it has even come within a reasonable distance of 'constructive'. I want to propagate discussion, I'm all for freedom of expression and I'll even encourage healthy debate. What I can't stand is mindless abuse. It makes me feel sad for my generation, because we're the first generation with the whole world at our fingertips. We can do some really wonderful things if we put our heads together, but people can be so predictably spiteful and hateful. You just have to brush it off because at the end of the day, if you're doing what you love, the anonymous commenters who spew inane crap onto the internet aren't even worth a bat of the eyelid.

DOES IT SURPRISE YOU HOW MUCH BLOGGING HAS BECOME SUCH A REGULAR THING, AND IS SO WIDELY ACCEPTED AS A FORM OF MODERN WRITING?
I don't find it particularly surprising, but it's eternally fascinating to me. We don't appreciate it now, but we're essentially changing the way history is perceived. It's scary to contemplate, but we're writing history everyday by archiving our thoughts online, so in the future researching the past is going to be as simple as a few clicks of a button. And who knows what that might turn up?