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La Carmina fashion blogger, travel TV host, culture and art journalist, author L
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La Carmina's popular travel and style blog - http://www.lacarmina.com/blog - has a large, passionate online following. She has sat front row at NY Fashion Week, appears regularly on TV (Food Network, Travel Channel, Discovery) and models for major fashion brands. She is a journalist for Business Insider, CNN Travel and Huffington Post, where she has a travel video series that's filmed worldwide (this year, episodes included Maldives, Dubai, Hong Kong, Thailand).

In addition, La Carmina is author of 3 books about pop culture (published by Penguin and Random House), and hosts TV shows for Discovery, Food Network, Travel Channel and more (as well as own series on Huff Post / AOL). She also runs a TV coordination business that recently got attention for their Bagelheads forehead inflation segment on National Geographic Taboo.

Summary of her travel work: http://www.lacarmina.com/travel.php
Here is a link to her high-traffic daily blog: http://www.lacarmina.com/blog
Her Travel TV host reel
La Carmina on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Carmina
Huffington Post page: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/la-carmina
What is unique that's not in your bio?
La Carmina gave the first TED talk about Goths. Lacarmina gave a 15 minute talk about growing up Goth, and what the subculture means to me. I unraveled six of the biggest stereotypes about Goths, and hopefully helped reveal the unexpected beauty and community of our dark subculture.
What's your favorite accomplishment?
I officially launched my La Carmina Blog in September 2007, so I was quite early to the blogging game. There were only a handful of notable fashion and culture bloggers at the time, and their creativity inspired me to start my own. Throughout the years, social networks have come and gone but I’ve continued to share my worldwide style and subculture adventures on La Carmina Blog. I feel it’s important to self-host and own your content, rather than publishing it on other platforms and being subjec
What is your secret to uncovering trends?
Gothic, alternative and dark subcultures expert who’s an award-winning blogger. Her leading blog focuses on Goth/Satanic culture in Japan and worldwide, winning the “Best Blog of the Year” award in 2017. Not only has she traveled to 70 countries, she is a TEDx speaker giving the first TED talk about Goths. Working as an on-camera host and local producer for TV shows worldwide her credits also include NBC (Better Late Than Never), Kawaii TV (NHK Japan), Discovery (Oddities), National Geographic
How do you reset to be creative?
My friend Dr. John Skutlin and I have been researching and publishing about Japanese Satanism for over a decade now, as well as devilish cultures worldwide (Day of the Dead and Brushing of the Bones in Mexico, Santeria in Cuba, Buddhist hell-beings in Thailand, and more). The Satanic Temple launched a terrific new web television platform, and TST co-founder/spokesperson Lucien Greaves invited me to create a series for The Satanic Temple TV. Our show, “Satanic Show + Tell,” covers history, anthr
What inspires or excites you?
Travel, underground culture and lifestyles.
Predict something awesome for 2020?
extreme body modifications for all!