Independent Fashion Bloggers

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 [...]

IFB Presents : Evolving Influence Conference NYFW 2010

In 2009, fashion bloggers came under the media spotlight. We have grown our readership and expanded the possibilities of online conversation well beyond anyone’s imagination. We’re increasingly sought out by high-profile brands. So what next? How do we handle success? IFB — with the help of American Express, G-Star RAW and ModCloth– is proud [...]

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 [...]

Tips from a Fashion Week First Timer

by Gemma Seager/ Retro Chick
Fashion Blogs are gaining increasing amounts of recognition and acceptance and many Fashion Bloggers are making the most of it and grabbing those media credentials with both hands. This means that a lot of us are finding ourselves, for the first time, with Press Accreditation, and the opportunity to cover Fashion [...]

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 [...]

Not Buying It… How has the recession affected your fashion blog?

When I first started blogging, it was more of a deterrent of my shopping addiction. I compulsively bought clothes, almost to the point of being embarrassed to post about my new scores. But as time went on, my shopping habits changed, some to do with what I was learning about clothing production and some ethical [...]

So You Want a Review Sample

This post is by Sonja, the beauty editor at The Coveted I asked her to write this post because of the great way she’s built relationships with beauty companies over the past months since she’s started to write on our blog. ~Jennine
The Challenge
You see pics of lovely clothes and beauty products and want to write [...]

Flipgloss Media… Good for Bloggers?

There is no question that the current advertising structure does not work…
Banner ads don’t produce much revenue unless  you really push ad sales, affiliate marketing delicately teeters the line between editorial and sales content at the best of times. Flipgloss Media plans to change all of that. Funded by Forbes Media, FlipGloss.com is marketed as [...]

Beyond Boundaries: IFB to speak at conference

Thanks to the lovley people at FashionFreax and E.Factor, next week I will be on the panel at a conference in Berlin about working in a world without geographic boundaries. Though IFB is in English, our community is strongly international, and to be honest, I didn’t really think that was special as I always thought [...]