Independent Fashion Bloggers

From Blog to Brand: Questions to Help Define a Vision for your Blog

This post is by Ann Colville Somma of Holier than Now For most of us, our blog is personal. We are independent fashion bloggers – the very opposite of corporate blogs that ultimately seek to sell something. It might not come naturally to think of ourselves as a product – yet we want people to consume [...]

Evolving Influence Conference Expansion

We’ve expanded the Evolving Influence Conference to make this a special day for fashion bloggers! Due to high demand… the theater is full, and because you are important to us, we would love for you to come, so we added as special space attached to the theater where you can watch the conference in real time [...]

Links à la Mode : The IFB Weekly Roundup

The Love/Hate Relationship With Fashion Edited by Debutante Clothing I’m always complaining about going out to fashion events by myself – I just don’t have many friends that are into fashion. While some people think fashion is frivolous and contributes nothing to the world, others are curating museum exhibits featuring 20th century clothing. This week’s links made [...]

Blogger Spotlight : Fashion Pulse Daily

This week’s Blogger Spotlight goes to the darling Fashion Pulse Daily Julia from Fashion Pulse Daily got an overwhelming vote this week…and rightly so, this blog is full of handy real life fashion tips and the lovely lady behind it has to be one of the nicest people in real life (and online) it’s such a [...]

Beginner’s Guide to Growing Your Readership

This post is by Gotham Hipster Once you’ve started your blog, you’ve probably realized the readers don’t all come out by themselves. Here are some tips to get yourself out there and interacting with the blog community, and your readers. Interviews An interview is the most personal way to market yourself to viewers, because you’re giving away quite [...]

Get Out There – How To Cover Events Without Feeling Like an Idiot

Image by Pink Sherbet Photography This post is by the lovely Retro Chick A great way of creating unique and interesting content for your blog is to get out from behind your computer and cover events first hand. Fashion Week is seemingly the holy grail for Fashion bloggers, but if you don’t live in, or [...]

Links à la Mode : The IFB Weekly Roundup

A Touch of Frivolity Edited by Retro Chick It’s been a long time since pay day and this weeks Links à la Mode brings a touch of much needed frivolity as we crawl into the second month of a new decade. Idiosyncratic Style takes Scooby Doo’s Velma as her style inspiration, Dirty Hems is inspired by dolls [...]

Blogger Spotlight : Wicked Whimsy

This week’s Blogger Spotlight goes to the amazing Michelle of Wicked Whimsy. “I’d like to nominate Wicked Whimsy this week for her unique style and amazing hair. I think it’s really refreshing in a world where so many blogs I visit are full of pictures of moody looking girls with ironed hair and black skinny jeans [...]

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 [...]

Groom Your Twitter to Make It Grow

Whether you just started your Twitter account, or you started tweeting a month after Twitter launched in 2006, the thought has probably crossed your mind…’How on Earth do I make the most of these 140 characters?” You’re smart, your tweets are great, you engage, but somehow you’ve hit a plateau. While Twitter isn’t a popularity contest, [...]