I hope, when she gets dumped so cruely, as she will be, no doubt, by all the fashion people who've written her up, she can sort of cope with that.

So said Suzy Menkes in November. And it is happening faster than I would have thought:

Sarah McCullough, Selfridges' creative concepts manager and an avid blog reader, said: "It's mind-blowing that bloggers like Tavi are at the couture shows and being showered with all kinds of gifts. It has soured things a little bit for me."

From: Susie Mesure - "Fluff flies as fashion writers pick a cat fight with bloggers".

I already said it on the panel - corruption of writers is a major problem of the fashion media system, not of bloggers alone, it is just more visible now.

Best comment (of course): Amy Odell for The Cut.