Manny is a fantastic photographer often flown by Sony to their launch events etc with 450K + followers on his YouTube channel he must be doing something right. There are dozens of better videos in his collection than that one, which was only demonstrating basic studio photography from a home.
Jason Lanier was my favourite fashion photographer until recently however some really bad press kind of put me off watching his channel so much these days, but you can’t take away his undoubted talent in fashion photography, if only he could just stick with purely photographing the girls, instead of …
No, neither are fantastic photographers let alone top fashion photographers, they are YouTube personalities who take photos. Look at their client lists, oh you can't because neither of them have one!
What do they do right then? Well they play the YouTube game, which is a business in and of itself and all credit to them for that, but neither of them rank in the top anything for their images.
If you want to see a proper working fashion photographer on YouTube take a look at Peter Coulson, watch some of his long form studio videos and notice how intimately he understands light.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1rGqETAL7_rAElj9Oe404Q
But if you dive deeper you'll find real working fashion photographers with client lists to die for like these gems:
Or if you want to see the biggest guns in the business:
And how many of them are sponsored by camera manufacturers? How many are flown to the latest Sony release? How many give a damn about a YouTube channel! None, they are all photographers first and foremost, none of them talk about gear to any extent, watch them work and look at their images, breath in the fresh air and look at the art they create.