Links a la Mode - this week`s 20 best blog posts voted by the Independent Fashion Bloggers

+ A Prettier Place: Jean Paul Gaultier • Retrospective

+ An Old Story: The 90′s Are All That

+ Best of Bklyn: Giving Back Fashionably

+ Castle Fashion: Shoe profile for All Saints Heels

+ Cosmolawlitan: The Kate Effect? Fashion Icons and Their Influence on Consumer Behavior

+ DignityZine: Iconoclass: Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday. Get the modern day look for under $100!

+ Dress Code: High Fashion: Inspiring fashion since over 50 years: Alfred Hitchcock`s blondes

+ Dressful: It’s not WHAT you wear, it’s HOW you wear it

+ Fashables: So… I think She’s a Model

+ Fashion is Evolution: This new installment of my favorite feature (Fictional Fashion Icon) is all about Margot Tenenbaum.

+ Fashioned by Love: Fashion legend: Jeanne Lanvin

+ Fumiko Kawa: [inspiration] Alexander Wang F/W 2011 shoe

+ Heather Fonseca: Balenciaga and Spain

+ Her Majestys Glam: How to: Make-Up Like Marilyn

+ IFB: Google+ for Fashion Bloggers

+ Kyoto Maiko: The Absence of Ivy

+ Lady In Lycra: Everybody Talks About My Blog. A tribute to my new fave t-shirt

+ Simplyfrabulous: Shoes and art, when a heel become a “chef d’oeuvre”

+ Sometimes Almost Always: LA DJ Fashion

+ Style Ceviche: The beautiful Sasha Pivovarova



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Links a la Mode - this week`s 20 best blog posts voted by the Independent Fashion Bloggers

+ Alex Drake Vintage: 10 Things I Like About the 1980s

+ Angela Osborn: 6 Lessons Learned from Coco Chanel

+ Any Second Now: Heartfelt lessons and thanks in this first year of blogging.

+ Beautifully Invisible: We Are Women. We Are Beautiful. We Are Real.

+ Beyond Fabric: On personal style and individuality—because redundant is the last thing you want to be.

+ Blah Blah Becky: Proof that it’s always worth trying a trend: cropped tops without muffin top.

+ Boheme Noir: Fashion Show Coverage: Roberto Cavalli S/S 12 Menswear

+ Bubbling with Elegance and Grace: Fashion Designer Exhibitions: Is this the new trend?

+ By Anika: Closet check: Do your clothes make you feel good about your self?

+ College-Style: #Trending in Milan: Using Twitter to keep up with girls’ and guys’ fashion #trends

+ Divergent Musings: Five ways that blogging has improved my life (it can improve yours too)!

+ Grit & Glamour: Worker V:2.0 (Ode to the Pencil Skirt)

+ Hippie Lace: You Cast Your Spell On Me: Spell & The Gypsy Collective

+ Idee Fixe: Kindness: A Tale of Kindness, Generosity, and a Vintage Coat

+ KP Fusion: In the business of blogging, is style really subjective?

+ My Orange Stilettos: Just because you’re short doesn’t mean you can’t wear a midi.

+ Oranges and Apples: On “going out” clothes and sexual attractiveness.

+ Seamstress Stories: Boundaries on body confidence and a culture of bonding through body bashing.

+ Style Sizzle: 10 fashion lessons learned from living in the desert.

+ The Stylish Butterfly: The advantages of being the worst dressed—it works for Helena Bonham Carter!



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Links a la Mode - this week`s 20 best blog posts voted by the Independent Fashion Bloggers

+ 1972 Projects - DEPARTURE: Christophe Lemaire’s Hermès Debut

+ aNewFoundLove – The Body Shop’s New Bronze Collection + campaign to STOP sex trafficking of children and young girls

+ All The Cool Kids – My Little Pony as some colorful fashion inspiration

+ All The Fuss – Power Clashing: We Do It Because We Can.

+ Beautifully Invisible – Guest Post: How to Not be a Savage Blogger – “Follow Back” Alternatives for New Bloggers

+ Boheme Noir – Retrospective: The medieval warrior women of Dior Couture fall 2006

+ Chasing Louboutin – A few minutes with Rachel Roy and Karina Petroni

+ Codos on the Window Sills – A historical approach to why skinny=good

+ Denimology – JustFabulous Launches Premium Denim Line!

+ Dress With Courage – An exploration of the influence of celebrity culture on sartorial choice

+ Fashion Bucket – Dressing for your body shape. Featured this week: Petite.

+ Fumiko Kawa – Mutli-Purpose Style: Lace Cardigan to Haute Headwrap

+ Former Parades – Blogger meeting + outfit: we spreaded the blogging love last Sunday at a Dutch fashion blogger meeting!

+ Madeline Quaint – Why buy handmade? Some tips and arguments after a visit to a Design Bazaar

+ Made To Travel – Rock the bright stripes trend on your fingertips with this easy mani.

+ Midnight Cowgirl – How to do a Photo Shoot on the Cheap

+ Out Of Order Design – Cover Me In Rainbows: A beginners guide to the color wheel, color blocking and color combining

+ Sugar & Spice – How to… Colour Block

+ The Fashion Turd – An Decora styled outfit post inspired by all things Japanese on the web

+ TheStylishButterfly – How Thor inspired me to discover the science of Christopher Kane fashion



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Links a la Mode - this week`s 20 best blog posts voted by the Independent Fashion Bloggers

+ Arash Mazinani: Super Brands: Why They’ve Got You Hooked

+ Barbro Andersen: Blogging is sharing, and sharing is caring!

+ Best of Bklyn: How I wore my mom’s prom dress, 31 years later!

+ Best of Palm Beach Consignment: Alexander McQueen: A Love Story

+ Blah Blah Becky: Lipstick: A History

+ Boheme Noir: 20 Alexander McQueen Runway Moments that blew my mind

+ By Anika: A Love Letter to Personal Bloggers

+ Consider Me Lovely: A journey from self-loathing to self-loving.

+ Crashing Red: Why bloggers should not be categorized—or judged—because of their particular style.

+ Dress With Courage: How do you define the difference between being inspired, or being a copycat?

+ FIERCE: A Day at the Beach and a Lesson in Self Love

+ Fierce Fab Fit: I’m a Grammar Snob: V1—Homophones

+ Grit & Glamour: Video Review: Maybelline Color Sensational Clear Lipliner

+ Haute Khuuture: How to display your jewelry for maximum use with minimal effort.

+ Her Catwalk: 5 Ways to Get Rid of Unnecessary Spending

+ Hippie Lace: A simple and easy DIY to add length—and spice—to cut off shorts

+ Independent Fashion Bloggers: Bloggers are not your only readers

+ Oranges and Apples: Why I Will Never be a Professional Blogger

+ Style Confessions: Gel nail polish—what’s the big deal?

+ Style Nuggets: 5 Surprising Benefits of Blogging

+ The Styling Dutchman: A self-conscious post about unflattering pictures and photoshopping: embrace the ugly!

+ The Well Appointed Catwalk: The Un-It Bag



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Links a la Mode - this week`s 20 best blog posts voted by the Independent Fashion Bloggers

+ A Reason to be Fabulous: The classic white button-down remixed for work and play.

+ Best of Bklyn: The six shoes every girl should have for a complete shoe wardrobe.

+ Beyond Fabric: How to solve your hemming conundrums.

+ Boheme Noir: The 20 most pointless designer accessoires ever.

+ Brunette Blogging: Blogging Commandments — do’s and don’ts for bloggers.

+ By Anika:Colouring outside the lines, in fashion and in life.

+ Consider Me Lovely: Things I Now Know For Sure (lessons in blogging)

+ Dozen Dresses: The First-Timer’s Guide to Shopping In Paris

+ Decoding Dress: An open letter to Scott Schuman (The Sartorialist)

+ Finding Tokyo: Why do you blog? It’s not about numbers….it’s about the connection.

+ Grit & Glamour: Shots You Never Saw and What They Taught Me

+ HauteWorld: Harvey Nichols brings “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” to London.

+ Her Catwalk: 7 More Ways to Stop Impulse Spending

+ IFB: How to Break the Ice at Events

+ KP Fusion: Moment of Honesty: What’s the purpose of your blog?

+ Letters to Daria: Travel in style or comfort?

+ Lights So Bright: The difference between leopard and cheetah prints.

+ NY Don’t Leave Me: Tackling sandals and socks!

+ Shoeperwoman: The Trouble with Dresses

+ The Citizen Rosebud: The I.O.U. Project—a new online venture aiming to make a difference.

+ This Is A Yes: Alexander McQueen Exhibit at the Met



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Links a la Mode - this week`s 20 best blog posts voted by the Independent Fashion Bloggers

- 365 Fashion Rehab: Makeup Makeover: Condensing Your Beauty Must-Haves

- A Scottish Lassie Loves: Bright Pick Me Ups for a Rainy Day

- Boheme Noir: The Best Vogue Covers of the 80′s and 90′s

- By Anika: Why Nude Swimming is Next for this Curvy Fashionista

- Chi Chi Bella: The 60′s: Fashion at its Classiest

- Fashables: Is it possible to get turned on by a pair of shoes?

- Fashion Limbo: Real Vintage vs. Fake Vintage

- Fashionista Next Door: A Free Alternative to Photoshop

- From London With Style: From London Fashion Week – Why Brits are Best

- Grit & Glamour: Tips for Surviving the IFB Conference

- Holier than Now: 8 (Actually Stylish) Backpacks Under $50

- IFB: Proenza Schouler Video: Fashion Bloggers Create an “Extraordinary Impact”

- It Hunter: Gary Winogrand: Women Are Beautiful

- Notes From A Stylist: On Surviving the Marc Jacobs Press Pit

- Songs and Fairy Tales: 60 Day No Shopping Challenge!

- Statements in Fashion: My Weight Loss Success Story

- The Fashion Pawn: Optimizing Your Blog Layout

- The New Wave: The top five most creative presentations from NY Fashion Week

- The Citizen Rosebud: Must-Watch Fashion Bloggers over 40

- The Button Owl: The Hottest Hair from NYFW

- Vanja Stance: An Awesome 80′s Nails Tutorial



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Links a la Mode - this week`s 20 best blog posts voted by the Independent Fashion Bloggers

- Antares: Alfa Scorpii: Mori girls style is an amazing street style trend, the mixture of ethnic, folk, lolita-style and others.

- Awakened Aesthetic: Araks Yeramyan’s lingerie is both ethical and effortless.

- Beyond Fabric: On Family History – Vintage Family Pics

- Big Girl. Small Budget. Tiny Town.: Using the 12 Days of Christmas as style inspiration. A 12-verse song translated into 12 winter looks

- Boheme Noir: 10 Ways to Wear Tartan & Plaid

- Circle City Style: High Fashion in the Style of Gemma Teller

- Dramatis Personae: If I were Another Girl… Inspired by Eastern European Boho Style

- Fasshonaburu: Why is that most “Flatter Your Shape” articles will feature petite and curvy, yet rarely both in one person?

- Fuyume: Is the rise of Asian models a fad?

- The House in the Clouds: Shine your light on me: A reminder to all women that we are more beautiful and interesting collectively.

- I’m the It Girl: Colour Trends S/S 2011: From Runway to H&M

- Independent Fashion Bloggers: Setting Blogging Resolutions for the New Year

- Liv Lux Magazine: How to Ease High Heel Foot Pain [Video]

- Lust, Love, Lose: Lust- Maggie Matich’s Lavender Hair

- Just B Blog: B Festive: Hair Tinsel the perfect holiday hair accessory!

- Miss Vicki: Crossing the line between fetish and fashion

- Modly Chic: Typical New Year’s Resolutions– Blogified.

- MoMoMod: I’m bound to believe that Catherine’s definitive, effortless, and lady like style is perfect in its own right.

- My Fashion Lust List: Fashion Related Health Problems

- The Coveted: Snow boots for urban sludge

- The Red Dot: Fashion Illustration therapy: review of three of the best fashion illustration blogs of the moment – Do they have influence on our style and looks?

- Watch This Place: In a world where ‘shocking’ is no longer shocking, I consider whether the ‘rock-’n'-roll-bad-girl’ has lost her edge.



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Links a la Mode - this week`s 20 best blog posts voted by the Independent Fashion Bloggers

+ Be Fabulous Daily: Applying old-school academic standards of original content and citation of sources to fashion blogging

+ Boheme Noir: Best outfits 2010 of style icon Giovanna Battaglia

+ Fashion Butter: How to DIY Fur Collar with Chains

+ Fish Monkey’s Writing Stuff: Lanvin + H&M: Is there a downside?

+ Frock and Roll: A code of ethnics for advertorials on your blog

+ Grit and Glamour: RSS and Sharing for Dummies—and Lazies

+ Haute Halifax: Out of sight, out of mind? A look at the impact of the textile industry in Africa

+ Holier than Now: The Under $50 Gift Guide: Fashion, guy-friendly goods, eco and charitable finds and more

+ Independent Fashion Bloggers: Are you addicted to blogging?

+ Make the World a Prettier Place: 30 Vogue covers from 1922 to 2005

+ Mary Van Notes: A vintage style post from a tree house

+ Pancake Stacker: Lessons from “Changing Fashion: Internet and Blogging” featuring Liz of Late Afternoon, Yvan Rodic of The Face Hunter, and more

+ Positively Bleak: Tips on staving off the winter blues – with a bonus compilation of free demos and EPs from alternative rock bands!

+ Previously Owned: A carefully selected gift list for the foodie, fashionable, beauty obsessed and generous

+ The Chic Curve: Winter coats for everyBODY. No matter what size or shape, there is a fabulous jacket just for you!

+ The Coveted: Frock Luxury Vintage: A local NYC discovery

+ The Fashion Pawn: The Business of Blogging: Your Blog Brand

+ The Lingerie Addict: 5 things Every Woman Should Know About Her Lingerie

+ The New Professional: A bloglover’s tips for keeping up with your blog reading

+ Tickle Me Chic: Get rid of those blogging blues: Tips and links to ban discouragement

+ Wanderlost: 10 things to look forward to this winter



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Links a la Mode - this week`s 20 best blog posts voted by the Independent Fashion Bloggers

+ A La Modest: 7 Common Reactions to Style

+ Best of Bklyn: In Favor of Knickknacks – How to Personalize Your House Into A Home

+ Boheme Noir: The definitive IN/OUT list for Fall 2010 bags

+ Closet Confections: Fashion Bloggers Take On Product Placement: A Video Response

+ Cute and Little One: Product placement and blogger responsibility: a blogger’s role in influencing product advertising.

+ Daisy Dayz: Inspiring locally-designed headwear

+ Fashion Cents: 3 Tips to Consider for Open-Toe Boots/Shoes for Fall

+ Fête à Fête: YSL’s new Rouge Pur Couture lipsticks

+ Holier than Now: 11 Great Jewelry Sites You Might Not Know About

+ Hunting and Gathering: Why Classic Jewelry Never Goes out of Style

+ Independent Fashion Bloggers: Want to be a professional blogger?

+ Interrobangs Anonymous: On going grey in your twenties

+ Love Brown Sugar: Why Don’t You Love Me? A curvy girl’s ode to outfit posting on fashion communities

+ Miss Viki: AND_i captivating jewelry show coverage, with video

+ OK, Bowtie: Underneath: why everyone needs pretty underwear

+ One More: Does a bloggers dress size affect readership and is the blogging community becoming divided over it?

+ Ruby-Eyed Okapi: A Modest Approach to Halloween Costumes

+ Style Every Day: How to change that horrible mess of jewelry on your dresser to supreme organization

+ The Lingerie Addict: How to Buy Vintage Lingerie for the Perfect Pin-up Figure

+ Tickle Me Chic: Fashion-inspired Halloween Costumes

+ Vogue Mornings: Ten Tips for Achieving Work/Life Balance



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Links a la Mode - this week`s 20 best blog posts voted by the Independent Fashion Bloggers

+ 365 Fashion Rehab: Lessons from a (Reformed) Shopaholic: A beautiful handbag repaired (for free!). One more reason to buy quality over quantity.

+ Boheme Noir: The first ladies of Vogue – a closer look at the most important editors in chief.

+ Daisy Dayz: Friend Friday: How to learn from your mistakes and let your blog grow

+ Devilishly Pleasurable: Reflecting on the evolution of my blog and tips for better blogging!

+ Fish Monkey: The notion of flattering dressing is oppressive and unnecessary. Rather than conforming, why not chose a different shape?

+ Hazel Eye Personality: Who has what it takes to be the next big and game changing designer? It takes a lot of time, passion and sanity to make it in the fashion world.

+ Independent Fashion Bloggers: Work Smarter, Not Harder–3 Ways to Massively (and Permanently) Increase Your Traffic.

+ Miss Viki: “Love Me” and what is wrong with our beauty ideals, if anything?

+ No Guilt Fashion: I put on my game face and tried out my biggest fashion trend fear

+ Passionista Place: qvc, hsn…oh my! find out why home shopping networks have become a bit of an addiction for a modern passionista like me.

+ Seamstress Stories: Reflections on the role that mirrors play for our body image and self-perception.

+ Showcase Edge: Indie Fashion Goes Back to the future. A look at designers who hand-make clothing inspired by times of the past

+ Sidewalk Chalk: I’m a poser, baby: 7 steps for posing naturally in outfit photos

+ Stylish White Female: Transitioning from vegetarian to vegan: Some things are hard to give up. Fur is not.

+ Taxonomy of my Wardrobe: Shopping the Wardrobe. My version of this month’s Harper’s Bazaar Buy Now wear Forever list selected from my own wardrobe.

+ The Coveted: Three Way With a Long Chiffon Skirt

+ The Curvy Fashionista: Nordstrom reaches out to plus size fashion bloggers to collaborate on its newest plus size endeavor- Sejour

+ The Demoiselles: She is not a fashion blogger. She’s just a woman, sitting in her bathtub.

+ The Simply Luxurious Life: In a world that seems to be changing quicker than the seasons, what does it mean to be a lady?

+ The Wondergirl: retail-me-not: waxing poetic on two interesting happenings of late in the world of specialty retailing.

+ Vogue Mornings: How not to lose motivation when blogging, a few quick solutions to the problem many bloggers face.



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Links a la Mode - this week`s 20 best blog posts voted by the Independent Fashion Bloggers

+ Boheme Noir: Burberry S/S 11 Show Coverage

+ Brachman’s Sparrow: So you want to know how to grow your blog…

+ Chic Steals: Marshall’s and the World of Off-Price Retailing

+ Dramatis Personae: Fashion vs. Fatfashion Blogger

+ Dressful: Fashion is Art, Not Trivial!

+ Fashion Pulse Daily: New York Fashion Week Team’s Top Spring 2011 Trends

+ Fete a Fete: Dolce & Gabana Evocative Beauty Fall 2010

+ Hello Beauty: Bobbi Brown Black Velvet Fall 2010 Collection Review & Video

+ Independent Fashion Bloggers: The Importance (and Unimportance) of Being Niche’d

+ Leia’s Delights: No Comments?

+ ModlyChic: How to Take Your Own Outfit Photos

+ Retro Chick: Revies Illamasqua Lipstick

+ Scarlet Letter Style: Are Boobs Really Back?

+ Style Spotting: The Women of Warpaint

+ The Column of Samantha Tyler: Decoding: Bestiary of the IT Girls

+ The Coveted: Getting Inspired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

+ The Lingerie Addict: How to Dress Like Dita von Teese

+ The Simpliy Luxurious Life: Tips for Looking Fantastic Each Day

+ Vogue Gone Rouge: New Upcoming Designers Show

+ Wit & Whimsy: Getting to know designer Phillip Lim and why everyone’s talking about him and his line

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Links a la Mode

A La Modest - Reintroducing the morality within green ethical fashion

Bachman’s Sparrow - What better way to greet the new season than a beautiful, one-of-a-kind statement necklace?

Beyond Fabric - Enhancing your image: posture and body image.

Boheme Noir - Ten ways to style the classic Chanel jacket young & fabulous.

Fabulous Finds Girl - Ann Wiberg creates future vintage by recycling materials with Trash-Couture.

Fashezine - Inspired by the sensuality of Joan, the determination of Peggy, and Betty Draper’s elegance, a girl goes mad for Mad Men.

Fashion Limbo - Brand Love or I Want What She’s Wearing – How brands fail to get me and what/who truly inspire me

Grit and Glamour - Staying true to you when dressing for dress code.

Hello beauty! - Review and makeup lesson video with the NARS Fall 2010 Collection with NARS National Makeup Stylist Janice Daoud

Intrinsically Florrie - Exploring the historic city of Bath in style.

Manda Bear - Fall Outwear Finds, Beauty Goodies and other Treasures.

Mis Papelicos - A first Ebay buy and what to look for when shopping online.

Oranges and Apples - A vintage wedding dress on a budget, plus some ideas for styling it.

Poetic and Chic - In which I spot the most beautiful pair of Louboutins and get inspired.

Pull your socks up! - What do you do with an inherited, precious and much-coveted family heirloom?

Retro Chick - Retro Style for Autumn: Lena Hoschek Autumn Winter 2010

Seven Deadly Cyns - Death by Cosmetics- the dangers of harmful ingredients in our beauty products and what you should look out for.

The Coveted - What to Wear to NYFW

The New Professional - How high is too high for heels in the office?

Wit & Whimsy - Designer on the Rise: Whitney Pozgay



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