It's not fashion but it sure is important, at 9:44pm Eastern time it seems clear that Barack Hussein Obama will be the next President of the United States of America. The end of the reign of terror and ineptitude.
David McIntyre
Publisher
ZOOZOOM
We get lots of inquiries asking if we accept submissions and although as a rule we prefer to commission our own features there's a lot of talent out there and if the photography and fashion is strong enough we'll give your work serious consideration.
The best approach is to send us small jpegs (600 px wide) together with the fashion, beauty credits and or background information to; info@zoozoom.com From there it will be forwarded to the relevant commissioning editor. If we like and are able to run it we'll get in touch.
There are numerous reasons a story doesn't make it, most common is that's it's too similar to something we've already shot or we don't have space in our editorial calendar. If we're not going to run it, regardless of the reason you probably won't hear from us. Sorry, but our resources are stretched so thin we simply don't have the time to engage in this type of conversation.
Thanks for supporting ZOOZOOM, we look forward to seeing your work.
David
Kicking off NY Fashion Week, we're proud to announce that our coverage is brought to you by GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis) and that we'll be Media Sponsors of GMHC's Fashion Forward event in November. Continuing the fight against HIV/AIDS is important to ZOOZOOM as it should be for all. Sadly, we just found out that's not the case. Now I don't particularly want to pick a fight with WWD but...
Let me explain. Last week we sent out a press release to a few media contacts spreading the news and offering an exclusive preview of a interview we did with Stephen Kolb of the CFDA (who are also sponsoring GMHC's Fashion Forward event) in which he discussed GMHC's partnership with the CFDA. Woman's Wear picked it up and conducted and interview with our CEO Mike Hartley who incidentally used to work with GMHC in their prevention department. So all was good until we got an email from the journalist, who was clearly frustrated, telling us that an editor had squashed the story because they didn't want to publicize a competitor. WHAT? firstly we're hardly a competitor, they're trade we're consumer, so who or what exactly within the Advanced Publications Empire (Fairchild, Conde Nast and Style.com) are they protecting and how upsetting that they put fear of 'competition' before spreading the word about fighting HIV/AIDS and GMHC. Trust me there are a lot of 'gay' dollars propping up the old fashioned media so they should be more careful and more repectful, lest their audence start logging on instead of shelling out.
Anyway doing what WWD won't here's a link to GMHC.