Independent Fashion Bloggers

Injustice! (Again!)

Post from Manolo’s Shoe Blog
Manolo says, yet again the major blogging awards have neglected to include the fashion blog category. This time it is the Weblog Awards who have disrespected us.
This is ridiculous. As this year alone dozens of articles, in such publications as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times of [...]

The Recent Google PageRank Kerfluffle: What Does it Mean to Fashion Bloggers?

Here’s a fantastic post from Lesley @ Fashiontribes.
The mystery of how Google ranks the quality of a particular website is – like the whereabouts of Osama, how Promises stays in business…& Paris Hilton – developing one of the great unsolved puzzles of our time. The subject of countless articles, blog posts, and even an entire [...]

Everybody has one….

Harper’s Bazaar article submitted by: Allure

When it comes to style these days, everybody’s a KNOW-IT-ALL. But do their opinions really matter? By Robin Givhan.
“If you Google “fashion blog”, you will get approximately 1.6 million hits. Click around for a couple minutes on kissmestace.com and you will uncover a plaintive shoutout to all red-carpet obsessives [...]

Magazines vs Blogs

Submitted by:
The Musings of Ondo Lady
I never thought I would say this but I really think the magazine era is over. Last week was London Fashion Week mania with every fashion blogger in town adding their two pence about their thoughts on the shows. Then later in the week, the latest pictures from the much [...]

Fashion IQ: Become a Media Mogul

From Chris @ Fashion IQ:
This is the first in a series about fashion blogging. There are a lot of specific articles out there about different facets of blogging, but I wanted to create a series tailored especially for the fashion blogger. So, here goes!
With the advent of news aggregation and RSS services pretty much anyone [...]

Style Bytes: H&M bytes the hand…

Agathe from Style Bytes, mentioned in H&M Magazine as a ‘Force of Fashion’ which is wonderful, however, the same publication writes:
“Enough already with this slap-dash copy, blurry digital photos, and zero knowledge. Will 2008 be the year that fashion bloggers raise the bar?”
Post from Style Bytes:
The way they write off fashion bloggers annoys me a [...]

Bobble Bee: Free Press in Fashion Shows is Good For All

Post from Bobble Bee:
We live in a moment in which fashion press is being into the fray quite a lot. Starting with us fashion bloggers and our right or not right to attend shows, our ability to talk about them or even to criticize what we like or don’t in the fashion industry.
The war with [...]