By the way, I knew when I started this up again (posting these, I get so busy I feel I don't blog enough to clog up the timeline) that I'd forget to submit my link. No really, I did. :-) (And I had a lot to choose from.)
Well, on to the goodness.
When Fashion Gets Ethical
Edited by Retrochick
The ethics of Fashion can be a blurry area. With so much to think about when we buy, from construction to provenance, how can we pick our way through such a minefield of issues and emerge with our ethics intact?
We all have a duty as consumers to be as informed as possible about the purchases we make, and this weeks Links à la Mode can help. Amongst this weeks picks Fashion in My Eyes talks about locally made fashion, Style Eyes discusses Organic Cotton, Hello Beauty buys some recycled sneakers, Oranges and Apples sorts the wheat from the chaff in second hand clothing and Shrimp Salad Circus brings you natural make up.
Once your done being educated we also have a good smattering of fashion frivolity to be getting on with too, and there’s even more on the original forum thread!
Links à la Mode : April 29
Fashion has Brains
Edited by Ashe
Every week I am always surprised by the selection of posts we receive here at IFB. I think back to before I started my blog, the discrimination I felt working in retail and adoring fashion, because it was shallow and it wasn’t academic. Now I look at the community I am a part of and think– how could anyone accuse fashion enthusiasts of being shallow? Or fashion designers, lovers of style? Indeed, like any frowned upon medium or niche, fashion has brains; it has ingenuity, it has controversy, it has creativity, and it has depth.
This week I want to celebrate those putting fashion and intellect together, to show that there’s more than meets that glittering eye…
Oh, and if you’re looking for something to do this summer… IFB is looking for interns!
Links à la Mode : April 22
Before you read this piece of beauty-equality fabulosity, note it comes from the blogger from Already Pretty. It's not just esteem-boosting and not just pretty, but beautiful writing!
If you hate skinny jeans and prefer bootcuts because they balance you out, wear 'em and screw the trend-hounds. If you want to wear foofy vintage dresses every single day because you feel fabulously feminine in them, do it and screw the buzzwreckers. If you think your collarbone is the sexiest thing ever created, wear scoop necks and boat necks and square necks and never ever don a collarbone-masking scarf, and screw the naysayers. Whatever you dislike, avoid it. Whatever makes you feel delighted to be alive, wear it.
And here are some of the bloggers' style shots from AP's piece. Their individual links below.
Casual Converse Chic! It can be done. Yay. I was thinking so with this style of sneaker's non-bulk, so I bought a cute inexpensive version - but I'll show you those shoes later! (They're in the mail.)
Be sure to read the entire, lovely, post on Already Pretty.
Women's blogs in the photos, respectively: Yammering Muse, Jeremy & Kathleen, Eek!
I'm sure many fashionistas in NYC got the flu or some bug this February. I mean, with the horrid health care in America, it's bound to happen more than in London! I posted a London schedule and then fell ill the very weekend in which I was going to actually work right through.
I didn't believe in flu shots, but um ... now I do, the risk just isn't worth it for me. (Mild asthma still makes the flu worse, ugh.)
So now I've rested enough for no more excuses. Here's a list of resources for those like I...
When I get a little bit more time I will review news and shows from London and Milan, and posts might come from that. If anyone has a good resource or schedule for Milan, comment or write!
As Mercedes-Benz / New York Fashion Week comes to a close tonight, here are the top places to review all the shows and clothes.
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And here is the schedule for the next week in fashion,
London
Greenwich Mean TIme:
Friday 19th February
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Catwalk shows
LFW Presentations
Saturday 20th February
Be Chic Mag got a hold of some big designers' sketches for the collections about to debut at Fashion Week. Luckies! Previewed here is Milly. Visit BeChicMag for more.
I am a little bit late to post this roundup, but I didn't want to miss publishing these intriguing links, featuring yours truly...
The Countdown Begins
Edited by Dramatis Personae
The countdown has begun–not only until the end of the year–but until the end of the first decade in the 21st century. That’s kind of amazing to think about. Styletastic and Sway, Sway, Away! both look at fashion from the Oughts with two distinctly different visions. [the3st] interviews the founder of ModCloth, while Wicked & Whimsy reviews Closet Confidential (by the hilarious Winona of DaddyLikey fame!).
Since this will be my last edit of links a la mode for this year, see you all in 2010!
Links à la Mode : December 17th
- 39thandbroadway.com: – How Brands Get Burned By Celebs
- A Typical Atypical: – Suffering from Buyers Remorse: The Real Deal
- Brunette and Pink: – Makeup Tutorial: Leighton Meester Inspired Winged-out Smoky Eye Look
- DailyDivaDish – Create a sparkling New Year’s look with the Tarte Treasure Chest Giveaway. Enter to this limited edition kit.
- Friend in Fashion – Sugar and spice and all things nice – Unearthing the unique designs of the fabulous, Arizona based designer Monique Martinez, through the captive lense of Galaxie Andrews.
- Grit and Glamour: – The Trend Conundrum–rends are a tricky thing; what makes some women look so pulled together is not a wardrobe full of the latest styles and trends, but the ability to know which ones to avoid.
- i'm the it girl: – My Love Affair With Hermes and the Great Debate: Kelly or Birkin?
- Idiosyncratic Style: – 12 Great Holiday DIY Projects – give something special this year (even if you are short on time and money)
- kaKofonie Of si(gh)lenS: – My most amazing (and green!) find this year: Denim Therapy, a company who will restore your tattered favorite jeans to like-new condition. Seriously.
- La Société de Mode | The Fashion Society: – Combats are stomping their way back into style
- Pursed Lips: – Thoughts/quotes on Lady Gaga as a powerful tool, if a difficult one to reach, for designers.
- Style on a String – Getting down to the wire: Gifts for the Stylish Geek who is kind of Girly too
- Styletastic: – As the 00’s are coming to en end, we look back at the fashion memories that will define the decade. Ah the memories!
- Sway Sway Away!: – Sway Sway Away! presents Caitie’s bitching and moaning on the worst trends of the Aughts.
- THE COVETED – Love it or Leave it : Rodarte for Target
- The Fashion Planner: – The Fashion Planner shows you how to make a jaunty beret.
- The Working Wardrobe: – Beware of “business casual” being too casual for the workplace.
- tick tick heart: – A focus on the varying fashions of some of our quirkier leading ladies in film.
- White Rabbit: – Pros and Contras of Artificial Nails
- Wicked Whimsy: – Closet Confidential: A Review
- [the3st]: – Success & Getting There: Interview with Susan of ModCloth.com
Choices, Choices!
Edited by Dream Sequins
At this time of year, even the smallest decision can feel like the biggest burden. As holiday shopping season swings into full and relentless motion this month, the choices we make as consumers can often feel overwhelming. This week’s compelling roundup of reading explores these choices from every possible angle and makes it clear that as bloggers, we should feel empowered, not overwhelmed. Whether it’s writing about a specialty gift guide for a geek chic girl, choosing the perfect red lip color or even exploring the nuanced difference in quality between designer and mid-priced items, these choices are what make us unique and connect us as an independent fashion blogging community.
Links à la Mode : December 10th
- A Typical Atypical – Get into vintage 50’s housewife mode for the Christmas season!
- Bobbins and Bombshells – Fashionable History: L’Officiel de la Mode Archives
- Brunette and Pink – Holiday Makeup Inspired by the Sephora 2009 Holiday Sephora Catalog using Urban Decay Book of Shadows Vol. II
- dramatis personae – High Fashion & High Art… Two Worlds Apart? Thoughts, Arguments, & Solutions for the Knock-off Debate
- Dream Sequins – A bling-tastic evening at jewelers, Doyle and Doyle.
- Fashion Pulse Daily – Fashion Pulse Daily finally finds a handbag that meets her very particular requirements.
- Fashion X K8 – Spotlighting the stylishly subtantial Desirée Rogers and challenging the press’s idea that those who fill jobs seeped in tradition should not only maintain the “tradition” but refrain from being eye-catching.
- Fasshonaburu – Shopping for the Geek Chic Girl: Holiday shopping advice for the girl who loves fashion as much as video games, gadgets and Buffy the Vampire Slayer!
- M.I.S.S. – She’s Crafty: DIY Ruffled Suspenders
- Oranges and Apples – The Sapeurs: vibrant and elegant street style from the Congo.
- Rags to Reverie – A Fab Four Fanatic’s review of the Comme des Garçons x The Beatles collaboration.
- Retro Chick – Fashion Economics – Are low cost retailers forcing us to be wasteful?
- Sophisticated Insanity – Take a look at the lady behind Rare bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel
- Style on a String – Leggings vs. Tights: The difference, how to buy them and what to wear (and not wear) with them.
- Style Symmetry – Christmas Gift Ideas for Him, For Her and Secret Santa…
- The Bargain Hunter Extraordinaire – Two days ago, it was 36 degrees out…today, I didn’t even have to a jacket- that’s New England!
- THE COVETED – Love bold red lips? Check out the Ultimate Red holiday collection.
- TheWorkingWardrobe – Here are some tips on how men can work jewelry at the office without any raised eyebrows.
- Thrift Eye – Dreaming of Shearling: Save up for the nice stuff and be warm or go with the cheap and be cold?
- ventures of jenn. – A spotlight on Berlin label Reality Studio.
- Wicked Whimsy – Practical Quality: Looking into what the difference, if any, is between a mid-range item & a designer item.
Fashion Pulse is thinking about stuffing stockings with great blog posts (of course not literally) while I yet again ponder how I am happier not blogging about shopping, coupons, door busters.......
Unfortunately I could not get a moment to submit my link during our hectic move, and I couldn't post all week waiting for cable then fighting with my WiFi. Les sighs - hopefully I can pick the pace back up right away now though! Must work on a mode-link-worthy article. ;-)
(While coding the new layout, unpacking the printer, trying to find my rotary cutter and catching that Target holiday décor promotion ... oh I still like to shop. :-D)
Now with my office / Internet heading toward perfection, let's catch up on that reading...
Links à la Stocking Stuffers
Edited by Fashion Pulse Daily
This week, as I’ve been getting geared up for the holiday season’s shopping ( both loving and dreading it) via Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I couldn’t help but compare the posts to stocking stuffers. Why? Because it felt like a nice, sentimental hodge podge of little items that although different, still fit together into the the bigger equation, hence my new phrase, “Links a la Stocking Stuffers!” Although I jest, I love the variety of posts this week, from how to style and what to wear including Retro Chick’s guide to ’40s hair for holiday parties, CoolMamaStyle.com’s tuxedo jacket, The Coveted’s adventures in Century 21 and What to Wear’s Art Basel fashionable looks, to Prom Mafia’s run in with Black Friday and SwaySwaySway’s blissful tactics to keep your computer off on Cyber Monday.
As expected, there was a fabulous round-up of links in the forum as well, all worthy of your eyeballs!
Links à la Mode : December 3rd
Beyond Fashion
Edited by Retro Chick
This weeks Links à la Mode blows away any preconceived ideas of the narcissistic fashion blogger posting endless outfit photos and magazine shoots by covering a huge array of topics. Ranging from Dream Sequins whimsical birthday tea party to High Fashion Girls detailed examination of racism in fashion magazines, these posts demonstrate what we’re capable of and the communities we can build.
Of course, being fashion bloggers there are also some great outfits to be found and our bloggers this week have looked at: movies, from Bollywood to Sci fi; their pyjama drawers; and even their cleaning cupboard in their ceaseless search to bring you fashion inspiration.
As ever there’s many more exciting links on the original forum thread
Enjoy!
Links à la Mode : November 26th
A couple of my own "beyond fashion" links:
