If you’re a regular reader, you probably know that I regularly speak vocally against The Style Coalition cause of their continued lameness under the direction of their vapidly useless leader, Yuli Ziv. Back in February, Yuli attacked our writers in a New York Observer article and has continued to talk badly about those in her industry, setting a horrible example for the ways in which a fashion blogger should behave and setting us back 50 posts with ridiculous attempts to unite publishers in censorship.

We’ve tried our best to fight against such oppression in the online fashion industry by creating Sayntly.com, a network designed to offer fashion publishers unique sponsorship opportunities, exclusive access to events and giveaways, fresh content from our publisher partners and at the same time protect their rights to free speech and opinion.

Now she’s the uncreative director behind this completely unoriginal video in which a number of really great NYC fashion bloggers are made to seem just as disconnected and idiotic as Yuli Ziv herself. Assuming that people aren’t shopping cause they don’t want to is just brainless. People aren’t shopping cause they are broke. We are currently facing one of the worst economic downfalls in history. Nearly 10% of New Yorkers are unemployed with thousands facing the cutting block by next quarter. Just today, the US News and World Report stated that there are nearly “1.5 million unemployed women in America”.

People aren’t spending money on Manolo Blaniks or Jimmy Choos cause they are afraid that they might not have a job to support themselves in the next couple of months. It’s food over fashion people and this parade of over priviledged Carrie Bradshaw wannabe’s have the nerve to call you out for NOT SHOPPING!!!! Cause heaven forbid they don’t have a fashion week to strut around at wearing their current season “must haves” while the rest of us worry about paying the rent. It’s a gross and unnecessary missuse of communication and I’m glad we decided not to take part in such a useless excercise of wanton self promotion.

We at Fashion Indie and Sayntly understand the plight of our readers and regularly provide editorial coverage which help you spend wisely, connecting you to discounts on sites like HauteLook.com, Ideeli.com or Gilt.com, or providing you the latest Online, NYC and LA sales through Shopette, our exclusive sales widget. We understand that spending is at an all time low and that now more than ever you need to make your money last. We are experiencing this recession just like many of you and because of that we would never waste our time trying to make you feel bad for not spending money. Shopping should be a pleasure, not a chore, and anyone trying to make you feel like less of a person cause you can’t spend doesn’t deserve your attention.

The Style Coalition and Yuli Ziv doesn’t care about you as a consumer in todays economy and are only intersted in furthering the interests of their advertisers and personal whims, letting themselves live in a recessionless bubble where fullfilling their shopping desires mearly requires a swipe of their most likely already overdrafted credit cards.

And to add to that, are these really the pieces they choose to wear in their after photos?!? How is it that you spew out a bunch of amazing designers like Alexander Wang, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood and you end up looking like you shop the bridge collection at J.C.Penny’s?!?! Not claiming that my style is any better, it really isn’t, I spend most of my time in pajama pants and t-shirts with holes in them, but then again I’m not in a video asking you to go shopping while wearing poorly styled basics.

Okay, that’s the end of my rant on this craptastic entry into the fashion blogosphere. Here’s what some other people had to say from across the web …

Can anyone really sit through this whole video? I wanted to tear my eyes out after the first 45 seconds.

It’s a video obviously done in poor taste and poor quality. Very selfish and I agree with #2, excruciating to watch. And there’s also the issue I’m having with their “ohhh i’m plain if i don’t shop…ooo now I’m beautiful and wearing too much makeup because I’ve spent lots of money on designer clothing!” Kiss my ass.