Links à la Mode: The IFB Weekly Roundup, Week of September 2, 2010

I am delighted to share that my post on the sexy, sexy corset made it into this week's Links à la Mode: The IFB Weekly Roundup!

Make sure you check out all of the other great reads below, as well as new Links à la Mode sponsor shopbop.  

Also - how many of you are attending IFB's Evolving Influence Fashion Blogger Conference on September 9th (I wish I could make it, but alas, it's not meant to be this month)?  Haven't heard of it?  Info is also included below.

The End of Summer? No! The Beginning of Awesome!

Edited by: Thom of The Sunday Best

For the past week I've been listening to Cee-Lo Green's fantastic send-off, F@#* You, and little else. At the same time I've been reading a lot of the hand-wringing in the press about bloggers and whatever are we going to do about them, along with our responses both here and on our blogs. And the two have combined in my head to form a single determination - bloggers need more swagger. I don't mean anger, of the you-don't-respect-us variety, or apologetics, of the we-are-as-legitimate-as-other-media variety. I mean swagger, the kind of swagger that comes from doing something well and knowing you're good at it. So whatever other themes might knit together this week's links, they all share that important characteristic - swagger. Step up to the plate, knock it out of the park.

Join us at IFB’s Evolving Influence Fashion Blogger Conference @ NYFW

Links à la Mode: September 2nd

• A la Modest - The Mystery and the Magnificent Monki
• All Tumbled Down - Fancy Style File
• Any Second Now - My Fashionable Heritage
• A Pretty Penny - Fashion Fitness and Floggers
• Awakened Aesthetic - To Covet: Cold Comfort
• Beautifully Invisible - The Corset: The Sexiest of Sexy Shapewear
• Beyond Fabric - Size and Fit: Shirts
• Bright Lights, Big Style - Losing Style in Fashion
• Chic Steals - Long-awaited Interview Outfit
• Fashion Cents - When to Alter Your Clothing
• Independent Fashion Bloggers: How Blogging Changed My Life
• My Closet in Sketches - Outfit Sketch
• Oranges and Apples - Thinking About Aging
• Ramblings With Rin - Before Meets After
• The Coveted - Design Your Own Shoes With Jeff Silverman
• The Demoiselles - Millenials: We Are the Revolution
• The Fashionista Lab - The Emmys: Red Carpet Recap
• The Lingerie Addict - Is Expensive Lingerie Worth the Cost?
• The Pursuers - Cheer Up, Margot
• The Sunday Best - Let Them Eat Bread
• What She Should Have Worn - Copy Cats

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Links à la Mode: The IFB Weekly Roundup

I am extremely excited to share that one of my blog posts has again been selected for IFB's weekly Links à la Mode feature.  When you have a moment, please check out all the great reads below!

Fast Forward to Fall 

Edited by: Florrie Clarke of Intrinsically Florrie.

The trends for the coming months were dictated back on the catwalks in February, but now as September draws closer it's time to get our teeth into them and have a good hard think about those all important autumn buys. Particularly seeing as while I type this the weather is strongly urging me towards a winter wardrobe.

This week's links both look to winter and bask in the remaining sun. We look at a fashion interpretation of the current oil spill disaster (intelligent or tasteless?), are inspired by gorgeous fashion illustrations and a chain bag DIY, debate the history of the 'prep' look and think about how all our choices determine our body shape.

Links à la Mode: August 16th

• a la modest: High-waisted jeans (a.k.a. mom jeans) are back in vogue!
• Beautifully Invisible: Steven Meisel's Water & Oil: Social Commentary or Tasteless Fashion?
• Beyond Fabric: On men bags
• Dramatis Personae: Gilda Su announce Revasseur & Pre-Fall 2011 Lookbook.
• Embracing Style: How to make your own chain bag!
• Fete a Fete: Review of Guerlain's new 68 Champs-Elysees fall 2010 makeup collection:
• For Those About To Shop: Katharine Hamnett is the mother of eco-fashion and believes consumers have the power to change the world
• Independent Fashion Bloggers: Can you Kickstart a New Career With Crowdfunding?
• Intrinsically Florrie: Dream dress and dream shoes- the fairytale look
• Kyoto Maiko: You Can't Buy "Prep," But You Can Own It...
• Miss Jones & Me: Roll into the Wild Woolly West: A focus on Fall transition pieces because the temperature can't drop soon enough!
• My Closet in Sketches: A hand drawn interpretation of the magic of white jeans (from the Gap men's department, to boot!).
• Vogue Gone Rogue: tuscan vineyards and teal rompers. A lighthearted outfit post inspired by Tuscan countryside and wine.
• Rags to Reverie: Sarah Mower's Fashion Illustrations for Vogue China and Vogue Nippon
• Retro Chick: A very modern vintage manicure
• Shoe Daydreams: Where do you draw the line with knocks-offs... what about when a blogger favorite retailer is doing it?
• Shoeper Woman: Why does no one dress up any more?
• Style Eyes: How to jump right out of a style rut - some ideas on how to look and feel great
• Stylin' Girl: Kristen McMenamy. Collages & trivia about a timeless fashion icon!
• The Demoiselles: What would you sacrifice for a more "fashion-friendly" body?
• The Simply Luxorious Life: A dream of a shopping list for the fall fashions - staples that will enhance any woman's wardrobe.

Links à la Mode

I am sure all of my readers are familiar with Independent Fashion Bloggers, but just in case you are not, and you have a blog of your own that focuses on fashion, I encourage you to check out the website.  Immediately.

Not only is it full of wonderful resources for bloggers, it is also a great way to get involved in the "fashion blog" community.  I've been a member for about a month now and have found it invaluable, particularly as a new blogger.  

That is why I am particularly honored that one of my posts was selected to be in this weeks Links à la Mode.  

To IBB: thank you so much!

To my readers: check out each of the great reads below!

Looking back, moving forward?

Edited by: Florrie Clarke of Intrinsically Florrie.

This week's links bound across time as we go from the first incarnations of the handbag, to both the glamour and reality of the mid-20th Century and the modern phenomenon of online shopping. And when, in all this, will women be happy with their bodies? Debenhams may now be using unretouched images alongside the photoshopped, but the Daily Mail and the UK's new equalities minister have decreed a new, and for a lot of us unattainable, body shape for us to aim for.

Links à la Mode: July 29th

• Amanda Lee: How to Do More With the Clothes You Have [Instead of Buying More]
• An Early-Life Crisis from Academia to Art: My 26th design project on my quest to teach myself to sew and reach 52 in a year! Also includes my own sleeve sewing tutorial and this week's project stats :
• Beyond Fabric: A thought on online shopping - is it worth building your wardrobe online?
• Blah Blah Becky: LOVING iconic British brand Whistles' AW10/FW10 lookbook
• Brooklyn Posh: starting to love thyself : the health/weight debate
• Beautifully Invisible: 10 curvy women - past and present - who are the epitome of sexy.
• Dramatis Personae: Ch-Cha-Chain- Coveting & Craving Chain Jewelry
• Fashion Limbo: 90s nostalgia after a party on a boat. I go through some memorable teenage-hood highlights
• Independent Fashion Bloggers: Fair Compensation Manifesto
• Intrinsically Florrie: Looking to the French pâtisserie Ladurée for design inspiration.
• Make the World a Prettier Place: Are women tired of distressed jeans and messy buns? It is time to leave this trend behind and dress up - even for everyday life!
• Malvestida: The Headress day... a day that's all about sharing creativity!
• Mariel's Castle: Experimenting with the newest nail trend
• Oranges and Apple: On glamorising vintage life
• Retro Chick: Friday Frock Love: Poppy Valentine
• Scene On the Street: NYC: Mod Scientist - Scene On the Street
• The Coveted: American Living $250 Gift Card Giveaway
• The Demoiselles: UK department store shuns retouching...why can't we live in the UK?
• The Embellished Life: Do you have a hankering for handbags? Enlighten yourself with the heroic History of Handbags on The Embellished Life!
• The Fashion Police: Why size should never be a fashion statement
• What 2 Wear Where: Mad Men Mania: effortlessly polished Betty Draper