Fashion Blogger BryanBoy Became a Front-Row Fixture

EVERY PERSON NURTURES AN INNATE desire of looking good and feel accepted in the socioeconomic circle. The word fashion instantaneously brings to mind a flash of colors with a dash of glam

our. One of the Filipino heart that fell under this field was Bryan Grey-Yambao, who is also known as Francis Bryan Yambao, but who is much better known as BryanBoy, has been blogging about fashion since 2004.

According to an interview what really made him interested in fashion is that he went to a Catholic school and he had to wear uniforms, day in and day out. According to some interview he was about eight or nine, and he loves to read magazines from PULP; while a lot of his classmates were into toys or games , for him, magazines provided him that window to the world. He just hated the idea of wearing his uniform. He hated the idea of conforming to his school. In a way, magazines gave him that escape from his reality.

He loved looking at beautiful people and beautiful things and models. It’s just an access to a different world; the idea of fantasizing that he could be this person that he’s looking at in a magazine. That’s what really drew him to it. Looking at clothes in a magazine as a child, it inspired him to do something about what he was wearing. For example, even if he was wearing a uniform, he would go to the craft store and ask his parents to buy him glitter glue and he will cover his shoelaces in glitter small little things that allowed him to express himself.

He travel to wrote journal. He went to Russia for a month and a half; He was 22 and he never seen snow in his life. He was living in the Philippines and he saw pictures of Moscow and the Red Square on Wallpaper and He thought, “Okay, His going to save some money, go to Russia, and start a travel blog.” At the time, he was a freelance web designer he would create websites for mom and pop businesses like his dad’s dentist “business”, things like that. The idea was just having a website or a blog on TypePad that everyone can go to, no matter what time of the day, and he could just update his pictures he don’t have to send emails to his family, asking him, “Are you okay in Russia?” he thought hell create a diary.

A year later, in 2005.The first person who featured him Danica Lo when she worked at New York Post. It was even before the Marc Jacobs bag, but he remember one of the headlines: “Pop Celebrities on the Web.” It was really ridiculous at that point; a year after he started, with the way his blog was, it was very outrageous. He would post pictures when he was drunk, post pictures when he was partying, or he would post whatever his doings are and just goofy things that a young person would do.

At that time it was new, so he was very out there and people just started reading it. He remember Perez Hilton would always link him or write about him on his blog. That’s how he got traction, when all of these celebrity bloggers would write about him — “Who’s this crazy guy from the Philippines?” In a way, it helped him form an identity online.

According to some interview, 14 years later he still feel like his in awe. His very privileged and grateful for everything that’s happened. He would say about 2009, 2010 is when it felt like he was getting validation from his peers. The brands sit him in the front row and establish him. Marc Jacobs named a bag after him in 2008; after that, it went to different heights.

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