Lovely Links and Links à la Mode

This week, I've been reading:

Clockwise from top left: The Simply Luxurious Life: Why Not... Get Organized? Blogger Style Icon: Grit and Glamour; Street Style London: Stand By Your Man; What Was I Wearing: Royal Garden Party; Forever Amber: Blogging For Bucks: Why I Don't Just "Blog For Me"; and IFB: A Guide To Using Your DSLR For Bloggers.

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Links à la Mode: June 7th

Love Yourself Always and Forever.

Edited by Nubia of NubiasNonsense

Loving yourself might very well be the key of living a happy life. Love your strengths, your weaknesses, everything! Everyone who made a submission to Links à la mode should be very proud and content with themselves. You are all fashion bloggers with a voice and have something to share with others. Did you know that your post could make someone's day? Your DIY shorts might have been the highlight of a young girls day. Your inspirational post might have motivated someone who had the blues. These are all reasons to keep writing great content and when in doubt remember... YOU INFLUENCE PEOPLE.

Links à la Mode: June 7th

• Aqui : Heres now: tie a turban
• Arash Mazinani : Build Your Brand: How To Create Your Signature Look
• Bachman's Sparrow : How to Keep the Passion Going in Blogging and Other Endeavors
• Brunette Blogging : The Blogging Sins
• Couturelust : DIY Isabel Marant pink lace up shorts
• Dignity Zine : Photoshop Expose, Penelope Cruz in Vogue
• Divergent Musings : The Cost of Blogging
• Dramatis Personae : What Carrie Bradshaw Taught Me About Aging & Getting Older
• FIERCE : Don’t Keep Up With the Blogging Joneses, Just Keep Up With Yourself
• IFB : The Reality of Blogging While Working a Full Time Job
• Inbetween Seams : Let’s Talk About Internships: What to Wear
• LAW OF FASHION : taking trends to the office [neon]
• LucyPlease : Making a User Friendly Blog
• Made to Travel : My Faves in Ethical Swimwear
• Oh, the Plaves You'll Go! : Naturally Beautiful
• Seamstress stories : Adaptation
• Style Nugget : Commenting: Still the Best Thing About Blogging?
• Sugar and Spice : Be a Better Fashion Blogger
• The Fashion Police : Skin Color is Not a Not a Fashion Statement
• Titine & Totoche : Warao Tribute

SPONSOR:
Summer Satchels at Shopbop: DVF bags, Be&D, Anya Hindmarch, Be&D, LeSportsac, Alexander Wang, KORS bags, Marc Jacobs bags, Tory Burch, CC Skye, LAMB, & Botkier handbags

PLEASE READ IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE
If you would like to submit your link for next week’s Links à la Mode, please register first, then post your links HERE. The HTML code for this week will be found in the Links a la Mode group will be published later today. ~Jennine

Links à la Mode: June 16th

SUMMER FUN

Edited by Jessie Thorpe of Denimology

Summer is here and it's very exciting to see the change in everyone's wardrobe and more pop of color. Inspiration roams the streets at every corner! It's hypnotizing. It's hard to keep money in my pocket... I'm sure many of you can relate. Besides what I observe outside, Fashion blogs are a key influence to my style. Bloggers constantly make me smile from ear to ear and from season to season as I watch them transform.

I'm looking forward to flowing dresses, ripped up shorts, hot bright colors, basic tanks, bold accessories, This list might go on forever. Below you'll find a lot of food for thought.

Links à la Mode: June 16th

• 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

SPONSOR:
New Designers at Shopbop: Temperley London, Tom Binns, Anna Sui, Soo Ihn Kim, Tibi Day Dresses, Mima, Pencey, Thayer dresses, Minnetonka, Sara Berman, Motif 56.

LINKS À LA MODE: TECH - 26 April

Time To Think Mobile

Edited by Vyque of Fasshonaburu

Anyone else feel like their lives have begun to revolve more and more about mobile technology? While I still can’t travel without my netbook, I can’t go even an hour without at least one of my smartphones within arm’s reach! So it didn’t surprise me when I read Miss Viki’s post on the prediction that “by 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide.”

As a full-time new media professional, I had heard this before, but I hadn’t really considered how this would affect my blogging. Until I started using the iPad, I never once checked how my site rendered outside a computer or considered blogging from my phone! But as more and more users start accessing content while on the go, it’s important to remember to think mobile!!

LINKS À LA MODE: TECH – April 26th

• Divas & Dorks: iPhone/iPad: Your Worst Enemy?
• Fasshonaburu/a>: Using Windows 7
• IFB: Flickr Photo Pool Collective for IFB Members
• Miss Viki: By 2013, Mobile Phones Will Overtake PCs
• Search & Dresscue: Your Perfect Fit: Choosing a Blog Platform
• Style Confessions: A Few Things You Can Do to Avoid Being Hacked
• Styling You: So You Want to Be a Better Beauty Blogger?
• Sugar & Spice: How to Make Social Media Work for You

Links à la Mode: 31 March 2011

Fashion: Forever Evolving

Edited by Collette Osuna of Statements in Fashion

Hello everyone! I’m super excited to be making my debut as an IFB Links a la Mode Editor this week. As I visited each link, I was reminded that each had the exact thing in common with the next, that Fashion is Forever Evolving.

From your Mothers fashion advice, a beauty “how to” video, or a legendary icons passing, fashion is always changing and taking form in a new shape. I am constantly thriving to acquaint myself with the “fashion unfamiliar.” This weeks links did just that for me. I’m thrilled to be a new member of the IFB family and cannot wait to see everyone’s posts throughout the upcoming year!


Links à la Mode: March 31st

Color Me Blue Fashion: The Lazy Girl’s Guide To Style.

Fashioned By Love: Carmen Dell’Orefice: Living Haute Couture

Fashables: These Shoes Called My Name

Fumiko Kawa: Redesigned Elle Homme shirt with clean cuts

Interrobangs Anonymous: Feminism and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Independent Fashion Bloggers: Why Fashion Bloggers Should Love Instagram*

House in Tillford: Tips and tricks for getting the best bargains at designer warehouse sales

Makeup & Jeans: A faux bronze look and entire glamorous face in 11 steps!

Mallory in New York: Sephora Launches The World’s First Unretouched Makeup Ad!

Mrs. Bossa: Does Pink Stink? How colour-coding gives the wrong message about girls*

Relatively Chic: 25 Ways to Help Japan Through Fashion & Art

Statements in Fashion: Weekend Jean Lover: From Drab to Fab

Styling You: Statement rings: Why you should wear one while drinking champagne

Sugar & Spice: Fashion and feminism: unlikely partners?*

The Citizen Rosebud: A touching tribute to the inspiration of ICON Elizabeth Taylor*

The Loudmouth: Big mouth, bigger hair: My hair timeline.

The Simply Luxurious Life: Eric Bompard – Cashmere Heaven*

The Styling Dutchman: Fashion & Finding Myself

Tickle Me Chic: The “Plastic Surgeons of digital media”

Those Graces: I Got It from My Momma: Style Lessons My Mom Taught Me*

T Minus T Plus: Baby Steps into Pattern Mixing

SPONSOR:

Shopbop Sunglasses: DITA, Karen Walker, Retro sun, Tom Ford, Mosley Tribes, Ray-Ban, Phillip Lim, Marc Jacobs, Carrera, & Chloe

Links à la Mode: 10 March 2011

Huge thanks to V of Grit & Glamour for including me in this week's Links à la Mode!

Making it Your Own

Edited by Vahni of Grit & Glamour

Wow...I'm a Links à la Mode editor...can you believe it?! So thrilled to have the opportunity to discover new blogs and compelling posts to share with all of you. That said, give me two minutes in the pulpit, and my "better blog" sermon starts welling up, totally involuntarily. So allow me a moment to share what I am looking for when I review submissions. It's pretty simple: Be creative and original, tie your post into beauty or fashion, use proper grammar and punctuation (spellcheck and proofread before publishing), and credit your photo sources. Always.

And on to the list...bloggers were in deep thought this week, pondering ethical fashion and feminism, male gaze and Marthettes. But in case you need to escape the heavy stuff, there is: denim! Happy reading, and as you peruse and comment on this week's posts, why stop there? For every comment you leave, why not check out the blog of the person who commented above you and comment there too? It's a great way to expand your mind—and your readership.

 

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Links à la Mode: 13 January 2011

Reflections, Realizations, and Resolve

Edited by: The Curvy Fashionista

After we blazed into the new year with resolutions, ideals, paired with moxie and gusto, we also came into the new year with questions, self realizations, and new inspirations. This week's round up features some of the most though provoking, feel-good, and reason to re-examine your closet!

Links à la Mode: January 13th

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