Independent Fashion Bloggers

A New Map of the Two-Way Street: Why Giving Back to the Blogosphere is Key to Growth

This post is by Ann Colville Somma:
2010 will be a banner year for bloggers, as they stand firmly at the center of the new fashion media movement. Lauded as independent voices, blogs in fact exist within a highly interactive community, and in part, it’s this connectivity that differentiates us from traditional media. Every successful blog [...]

When to protect your contacts

You’ve been blogging for a while, you’ve built up your community, your readers, you’ve made friends with other bloggers. Then the emails start coming with opportunities for you, it’s great, but then also start the emails coming requesting contact information of other bloggers.
This has been a personal pet peeve of mine for a while, but [...]

Devil’s Advocate

This was originally posted on my blog The Coveted. I’m reposting this because, well 1. not all of you read my fashion blog and 2. as fashion week approaches, we’re running into a slew of murky pitches and ‘opportunities’ for bloggers, so I thought I would share with you my personal experience with corporate seeding.

If [...]

The IFB Newsletter Returns!

A while back we talked about adding a newsletter to your blog. We used to have our newsletter, and it was great to keep the whole community updated.  After the move, somehow the newsletter was lost, and IFB is missing these weekly updates.
I don’t want to start it without telling you about it, along with [...]

How To Cover NYFW…When You Are Not There

This post is by Tierra, The Fashion Techie
Note from Editor: This can also be applied to any other city’s fashion week as well!
New York Fashion Week (NYFW) is the one event that every fashion blogger wants to go to. Some fashion bloggers are lucky. Either they live in New York, work for fashion pr [...]

Sharing Your Secrets?

Post by  Queen Bee
We all have secrets…secrets that we pinky swear we won’t share, secrets we never share at all.   But what about trade secrets?  Those aren’t just any old secret.  They are secrets with actual monetary worth.
If you’ve never heard of a trade secret, it is something you own and can sell [...]

Fashion Blogging : The Road Ahead

Looking at the home page, you might notice that we haven’t posted here for a while. Over the last few years, IFB has gone in ebbs and flows, I’ve really tried to post only when I’m inspired, and a few times I thought about shutting the whole project down. Thankfully the greater part of this [...]

Crash Course in Blogger Etiquette

This post is by Leia of HiFashion
I wish someone had given me a crash course on blogging etiquette when I first started blogging! Here are some tips I’ve picked up along the way. Please remember that these are all based on my personal opinion and not all of them are hard and fast rules.
Credit
Always, always, [...]

Thank you for making the Dress Up Soirée special…

The first two Dress Up Soirées last season in New York and London were great, intimate, refreshing, a new turn in fashion…but nothing, and I do mean NOTHING could have prepared me for the turn out and spirit that came with this season’s Dress Up Soiree and Evolving Influence panel discussion (I tried to do [...]

LA Times mentions IFB

In a re-cap of all the good bits about NYFW happening ‘off the runways’ LA Times writer, Adam Tschorn mentioned Fashion Night Out, the return of 80’s celebrities, and well, an organization of bloggers:
‘Web-based solo-sailing stylephiles seem to be the new royalty of New York Fashion Week, getting into (and sitting front row at) [...]