The Digitalistas: a mix of Digital and Fashionistas… That’s what we’re all about! Follow our posts that contain a critical (but humorous) eye on the world of fashion, beauty and lifestyle.
The Digitalistas are two online fashion editors/ journalists from Amsterdam. We started out -and are still active- in the fast growing digital world, and also work for print as a stylist, writer or reporter. This means we have our inside connections in the Dutch world of fashion, but we also visit the International Fashion Weeks in New York, London, Paris & Milan.
Contact us on: thedigitalistas@gmail.com
- © Karine Bloem
Who are we?
Karine Bloem, Founding-Editor The Digitalistas
Other Jobs: Freelance Journalist and Allround Creative
When I was 8 years old I was already hooked on fashionmagazines, and with my nose stuck to the television watching catwalkshows on Super Channel (think Fashion TV in the eighties). Not a coincidence that I ended up at the AMFI, (which was still called Montaigne Fashion Academy at the time), to study fashion. My goal wasn’t to become a designer but a stylist, so I quit after a year to study at the Vogue Academy, a private school for Fashion and Design.
After my graduation I did an internship at ROOM concept & design, a studio started up by Rozemarijn de Witte who also realized the succesful magazines Living, LINDA and La Vie en Rose. To make sure I learned about every aspect of the fashionbusiness I started to freelance in very diverse fashion-related areas. I did styling for fotoshoots, events and made concepts for some sponsored magazines. That’s when I made my first steps into the digital world, I filled a trendpage for the sponsored online magazine of Renault.
One day I had the idea to start an online PR agency for shoes and accessories. Which I did for 2,5 years with a friend that was a Communications graduate. At the same time I worked part-time at an advertisement agency, and did styling and production for Shooz and WATCH magazine.
Finally, a few years ago I ended up as a Fashion editor for Shopgirl.nl (then changed in Fashionfile), a Dutch website for Fashionistas and Shopaholics, for which I became Editor-in-Chief after a few years. We did a lot of crazy things; visited International Fashionweeks in Paris, New York and London, and continuesly bumped into very known bloggers as the Sartorialist, Facehunter and Geraldine Dormoy (Cafe Mode). We ran as hard as they did to photograph Anna Wintour, Carine Roitfeld and all supermodels and celebrities we were able to catch with our small digital cameras…The past 1,5 years I worked as a Senior Editor Online at Glamour, and now ready to start new adventures.
With an initiative like the Digitalistas we want to show that we take our jobs as seriously, and are as passionate as every known print journalists and editors.
Elisah Jacobs, Founding-Editor The Digitalistas
Other Jobs: Freelance journalist/photographer
I studied Journalism in the East of Holland and in my second year I wanted nothing more than to become a fashion journalist. My internship at a freelance company was very great: I wrote articles for magazines such as Veronica Magazine, Yes and Vriendin. For the last one I sold a column, which was very rare for an intern. After my graduation I worked as a freelancer for fashion brand Tom Tailor and also for the magazines Yes and Vriendin, did an education at the Fotoacademy (I love photographing fashionable people) in Amsterdam, I also gained experience by Joop van Tellingen and his son Dennis, two notorious paparazzi-photographers in Holland. With them I made my first steps into showbizz- and fashionland. I loved it
This showbizz-experience got me a job at Celebscene.nl, a Dutch showbizzsite. I interviewed lots of famous people like Jamie Foxx, Avril Lavigne, Maria Mena, John Legend, Sara Bareilles, Brian McKnight, The Script, James McAvoy, Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas. Finally I start working for Fashionscene.nl, a website for Dutch fashionistas and later as online editor for Glamour Magazine, editor-in-chief for I Love Fashion News.com and pr lady for Hollands’ biggest and well-known PR agency Spice PR.
