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IFB Presents Links à la Mode: “More than a Fashion Blogger”

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Edited by: Marie Denee of The Curvy Fashionista

Whatever your thoughts are about fashion bloggers, this week’s links a’la mode reads were quite evocative. Hardly does an article leave me questioning my own thoughts or ideals, especially when talking fashion. I may be moved to buy, but deeper? (sans any type of societal injustice) These bloggers brought more to the table, as Vogue Gone Rogue did with her declaration of the coexistence of feminism and fashion. Yet, I was proud to be an entrepreneur after glimpsing into the world of a bridal consultants leap into fashion design.In a world where a new fashion blog is born everyday and everyone is a critic. Confessions of a Fashion Editor interviews an outspoken blogger critic while Guacamole & Toast ponders if we should even care what others say. Whether you read because of the pretty pictures, fun reads, or fashion tips, know your authors are more than fashion bloggers.

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The End of History (Photo by Dave Branfield / Brewdog)

1. Squirrel Beer: I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “My, this $765 is really burning a hole in my pocket, plus it’s so HEAVY. I wish I had something very important to spend it on.” Good people, Brewdog has heard your pleas, and packaged their answer in the stuffed carcass of your favorite roadkill. No, not Rush Limbaugh. The other one.

2. Clever Little Monkey: Apple needs to come to terms with the fact they are not going to win this war: as a crafty fifteen-year old just showed them, when he disguised a tethering app in what on first blush appeared a simple flashlight application. Maybe if Apple wasn’t firmly caught under the tyrannical boot of AT&T, they’d realize that this is what the people desire - an iPhone that is also a modem. LIBERTA!

3. Mystery Celebrity:
“Hey, I have this brilliant idea!”
“We are in New York City, the home of brilliant ideas - let ‘er rip!”
“We put a box in the middle of Bryant Park!”
“Great!”
“And we stick a celebrity in it!”
“Okay!”
“And people can look at them!”
“Right - then what?”
“That’s It!”
“…”
“!”
“…Did Bob Saget put you up to this?”

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IFB Presents Links à la Mode: “Couture Today: An Exploration”

Edited by: Ann Colville Somma of Holier than Now

Couture: clothes painstakingly custom-made from the finest materials; alternatively, something Juicy - or even Filthy. It’s hard not to chafe at the degradation of the term, which is technically reserved for members of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture (houses that create made-to-order pieces for private clients, amongst other criteria). Looking at creations recently sent down the runways, it’s sad to think artisanal techniques like hand beading may not survive in a world of rhinestoned terry sweatsuits.

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Wardrobery 02.01.10

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Adoring…Christian Siriano for Payless

I have never been big into laces. There is just something inherently clumsy to me about them - they lack control, flop around based solely on their whim, often unravel and attempt to trip me. In a world of velcro and all sorts of clever fastenings, they just feel obsolete to me. Some bygone, whimsical artifact of the 1950’s.

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“In the Catskills, Comfort in a Gingerbread House” Photo by Trevor Tondro

1. Dreamhouse in the Catskills: It’s the magic you find in the everyday: an enterprising lady built herself a tiny Victorian cottage in the middle of the woods. Can you imagine what it would be like to come across this on a hike?

2. Cake: Cake is awesome. Here are thirty that would make me pause before tearing into them barehanded to extract their delicious, sugary innards.

3. Paranoid - Android?: So Mr.Kaboom got an Android about 2 weeks ago, and I have to admit (someone cover Steve Jobs’ ears) - it’s rather awesome. You know that thing has a freaking metal detector in it? Anyway, this article discusses how maybe Verizon doesn’t NEED the iPhone, thank you very much. And from what I’ve seen, I am starting to agree.

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KaBOOMBOX 17: “Hoot”

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Wardrobery 01.27.10

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IFB Presents Links à la Mode: “Questions, questions”

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Edited by: Jennine Jacob, IFB

They say the only dumb question is one you don’t ask, and these days the questions keep coming and the answers? Well, we try. In the fashion world… Lady Gaga, is she really doing it for the girls? What does working with Terry Richardson do for/against her cred? Should we question the ethnic headdress trend? Has fashion blogging become overloaded and narcissistic? What’s the real price of our clothing? And more importantly what should we wear to a movie date!?! Oh man, the questions they keep coming. Luckily this week’s roundup has some answers.
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