Links à la Mode : The IFB Weekly Roundup

Are You a Follower of Fashion?

Edited by: Ann of Holier than Now

Last  week marked the end of New York Fashion Week.  Post-show, the editors,  buyers and bloggers went to work to define and list the trends, hoping  we'll follow along.  But for many of us, the sheer shirts of Spring '11  were are about as realistic for our wardrobes as a meat dress.  Instead, we looked outside of Lincoln Center at the street style of individuals,  hoping to find the inspiration to zig when everyone else is zagging.  This week's post celebrates the path less ... followed, with  counterpoints on everything from current trends to blogger compensation and competition.

Links à la Mode: September 23

• Any Second Now: Dolly Bats & Clobber at Bona Drag
• A Pretty Penny: Newsprint Manicure
• Beauty and The Recession: They Put WHAT in Your Lipstick?
• Beautifully Invisible: The Meat Dress: Fashionable, Art or Just Controversial?
• Beyond Fabric: How To Pull Off A Bow Tie
• Cloud of Secrets: Wishing for a Spirit Style Guide
• Despising Life is So Passe: The Glories of Thigh Highs (and How to Make Them Work)
• Gretchen Blogs: When To Work For Free
• Holier than Now: Animal Print, Rainbow Hair, Layers - It Must Be Fall '10. Or Is It?? A Contest.
• Independent Fashion Bloggers: Evolving Influence Recap: Love & Links
• It's Symmetrical: A Shopping Revelation Inspired by an Anonymous Comment
• My Closet In Sketches: Unlikely Combinations for Fashion Inspiration
• Oranges and Apples: On Competition in the Blogosphere
• The Button Owl: On Liberation in the Age of Implants, Pornography and Pole Dancing
• The Chic Addict: A Pale Skin Girl in a Tan Obsessed World
• The Column of Samantha Tyler: A (Sarcastic) Look at Winter's Hot Trends
• The Daily Julie: fashionSpark: Fashion Design, North Carolina Style
• The Pursuers: A Love Letter to Legwear
• Tickle Me Chic: Labels that Lie: How Vanity Sizing has Become an Epidemic
• View from 5 ft. 2: New York Fashion Week Street Style - The Pictures You Haven't Seen
• Violet Revolution: Edgy and Stylish Fall Fashion

SPONSOR:

Latest at Shopbop: Denim -Madewell - Skirts - Under Ligne - Obakki -Dresses - DKNY

  

Links à la Mode : The IFB Weekly Roundup

You, Only Better

Edited by: Ann Colville Somma of Holier than Now
It's a strange culture we live in: we're always told Just be  yourself!, yet the bestseller list is chock-full of self-help books  and memoirs depicting radical change.  Finding the balance between total  transformation and chilling in our pajamas is difficult, but that's why  I love the blogosphere.  Here, inspiration is served up one manageable  bite at a time.  Want to save the world?  Start with vintage beachwear - the  purchase benefits disaster victims.  Hoping your man evolves into a  sharp-dressed diaper-changer?  Let's begin with a chic- and sustainable-  Dad's day gift.  Looking for  your dream job?  Take baby steps by revamping your  work wardrobe and taking notes from inspiring entrepreneurs.

Links à la Mode: June 17th

• A la Modest A Uniform Response to Chaos: Janelle Monáe
• Amateur Couture Art-inspired looks
• Awakened Aesthetic Men are notoriously hard to shop for... these gifts are all sustainable.
• Despising Life is So Passe A reminder that no gain is found without work put forth
• Dramatis Personae 10 Things Carrie Bradshaw Taught Me About Fashion
• Fabulous Finds Karl Lagerfeld says the crowd at AMfar is real and Oscar fashion is fake
• Fassonaburu Vyque looks back at five months of trying to follow strict fashion rules
• Grit and Glamour Meet Amanda of Amanda Deer Jewelry
• Holier than Now Rethinking a  previously rejected look
• Hundy & Undy Casual doesn't have to be so casual
• Market Publique Market  Publique & ModCloth auction vintage beachwear to benefit disaster  victims
• M.I.S.S. Interview with IFB  founder Jennine Jacob
• On the Racks Finding summer outfit inspiration in the strangest of places
• Style with Benefits Father's Day stylish gift guide by Esquire's Best Dressed Real Man in America
• Stylish Thought How to ban  boring business attire from your work wardrobe
• Tale Teller What famous  designers said about fashion
• The Greyest Ghost Art meets fashion at the Whitney's 2010 Art Party
• The Seventeen Magazine  Project One high school senior lives by the dictates of Seventeen  Magazine for 30 days
• Tog and Trappings Les flâneurie: How observation of life can inspire creativity