Secret agency is taken over. From now on only secret missions and today
for a renewed blog in our interrogation room is Miss Kriste Stankeviciute (20) from
"Feed you fashion animal",
THE Fashion Blogger, photographer, fashion and communication & styling
student from Lithuania currently living & creating in London UK. This time the Secret Agency wants to know get all information about blogging and blogger’s collaborations.
Tell us more about
your blog and your project ART/S by Kriste Stankeviciute?
I started Feed Your Fashion Animal in the winter of 2009. That day I didn’t
have any exact plans or even illusions why I was doing this. As I remember I
was caught by the blogging “virus” from the West that encouraged me to create
my own page, my own space and share my obsession about making interesting style
looks, taking inspiring pictures and sharing it with other creative people in
my country later on and with the world. Contrary to Feed Your Fashion Animal, ART/S by Kriste Stankeviciute is a very
fresh and very young page/project that was found in 2013. I could not say that this project is a continuation of my fashion
blog because I started it in order to put all my projects, that I was making
during my fashion studies, together and start to specialize in spheres like
fashion illustration, graphic design, photography and styling. It is more like
self-finding and expression of my creativity page.
How did you feel
about your starting your own blog?
It
was like a challenge for me, completely new thing for conservative and poor
understanding about fashion having country like Lithuania, I didn’t know how
people will react to me, maybe they will call me a stranger or even worst, but
all that I passionately wanted was to make things going and make them going
well.
Do you see blogging
as a possible business for a future or now?
Yes, no doubt. We already have some
excellent examples like Chiara Ferragni from The Blonde Salad who obviously makes money almost from every post
she updates these days: commercials, promotions, events, designer shows,
photoshoots and many different projects from all over the world.
Would you see it as
your dream job, to be a blogger?
Why not, but as a faithful The Blonde Salad reader I can say that during
this and the last year the simple basis or idea of her personal style blog was
taken over by commercials. This is not what I want or not what I aim from my
blog. I always said that first of all Feed
Your Fashion Animal is a blog that inspires people by letting them take
unique and original ideas that I am trying to express by creating my OWN looks
and if this will succeed then money will come itself, but commercial offers
will never buy-over my personal style or clothes that I want to wear.
Do you work with
brands?
I am, but only when I have my freedom to
choose the thing or clothing piece and the way it will be presented on my page
to satisfy the main personal style blog idea. For example, on Feed Your Fashion Animal I only post pictures
that have been done with my camera. I am also trying to do my own writings and
make garments that brands send to me, analysis in my own words by expressing my
own opinion.
Do you explore any
benefits as being a fashion blogger?
There are loads of benefits of being a fashion
blogger, but especially for me I like to be independent of creating what I
want, presenting it in the way I like, sharing the information and posting it.
Also it is really cool to meet new interesting people, cooperate with different
brands, get little surprise presents and just be interesting, useful and
inspiring person for your readers. Getting a feedback from them means the world
to me, I swear!
Andy Torres (Style
Scrapbook) have said that in order to have an effective blog you need to
promote it on other social media channels. Do you agree or no?
Of course I agree with Andy, I am also
trying to spread the word about Feed Your
Fashion Animal in social networks like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook,
Linkedin etc. I think it is the most important thing for a blogger overall to
update the information daily by using different social media channels.
Different social media pages help blogger to remind the world about him/her and
his/her blog again and again in different ways.
What advice you
would give for people who want to create a successful blog?
The most important thing is to be original,
to be different from the others and have your strong opinion, do not let your
readers change your personality, because you are the creator and you have to
make people come back to your interesting and unique page. Also it is really
important to communicate with your readers and to be self-confident and sure
about the things you are presenting. And of course – renew your blog daily: new
pictures, new ideas, new inspirations everyday will make your followers happy!
Help our Secret Agents to get to know more about Kriste and follow her on her blog, Facebook, Intagram etc. and keep us updated if something suspicious will come out!
