Bay Area Style Blog Favorites

Posted on by Ashley Laurel

Awhile back I wrote about my favorite fashion blogs, and now I have a few more to add into the mix:

Kitties + Couture

This blog is written by Maria Morales, a Senior Advertising Marketing Manager at Kaboodle, and all around well dressed, nice girl. I love how she pairs such bold colors and shapes together in her looks. My two favorite looks: Liquid Champagne and Funny Face.

It’s Because I Think Too Much

Kaboodle’s Community Manager has a fashion blog as well. She says she’s had a shopping addiction since 2007, so its nice to see her time going into amazing looks like Sheer Silk and Leather Shorts. Her blog also covers nail art and what’s in her cosmetic bag. And if you’re lucky enough to meet this girl in person, you will be in for a real laugh, because she’s a riot!

The Fashionista Lab

Adelle McEleeven first launched this blog while spending a year in Tokyo, before relaunching it in 2008 upon arrival to San Francisco. Great locations to inspire a unique fashion perspective, right?! Her blog covers fashion news and her personal style.

Fashionably Ashley

Ashley Gustafson, a fellow co-founder of Digitally Chic, writes a lifestyle blog, jam packed with fashionable life updates like her trip to WWDMagic. And both in person and online, Ashley’s casual style has just the right amount of punch from well chosen accessories, usually in the form of great bag or hat.

Other posts you might enjoy:

Four Style Blogs I’m Addicted To

Three Ways Mainstream Magazines and Fashion Bloggers are Collaborating

Free People’s Fashion Bloggers Introduce Themselves Through Flickr

Three Ways Mainstream Magazines and Fashion Bloggers are Collaborating

Posted on by Ashley Laurel

Yesterday I was reading a post about Vogue’s Influencer Network on IFB and started thinking about all of the ways magazines are partnering with bloggers these days.

Source: Style-Delights

Blogger Networks

Big name magazines have created blogger networks to better partner with some of the most elite fashion bloggers. Network must mentions include Lucky Style Collective (founded, Feb 2011), Glamour’s Young and Posh (founded, Feb 2011), and Vogue’s Influencer Network (founded, July 2011).

Featured Bloggers

Magazines are increasingly featuring bloggers’ style as a way to show style trends through already loved industry favorites.

Lucky Magazine  seems to have it just about right with their post about current blogger style. “Blogger Style: The Pieces That Click“, is about must-haves for fall, including ideas from the bloggers of From Me to You and That’s Chic (my favorites of the bunch).

Magazine Blogs

Many magazines, and online newspapers, have included fashion blogs within their publications over the past few years.

Random, yes, but Marie Claire’s Diary of a Fashionista blog gives the magazine’s staff a chance to cover just about anything fashion related. From last week’s Project Runway episode, to the closing of the McQueen show in New York, to Ferragamo’s online trunk show, this blog focuses on the “now” factor as its theme.

In these three ways, magazine and blogger efforts merge in an attempt to get their names out there, stay relevant, and loved.

While I’m very excited about seeing my favorite bloggers get featured on magazine sites, I can’t help but be wary of such collaborations. Stay tuned for a post about this topic soon.

If you liked this post, you may like my post about how well Lucky Magazine ties its print edition into the world of digital.

Free People’s Fashion Bloggers Introduce Themselves Through Flickr

Posted on by Ashley Laurel

Free People just tweeted an introduction to its two fashion bloggers, Jemma and Julia. As a site that offers clothing for women into soft Southwestern and chic hippie-like style, it’s no surprise that these two bloggers really embody the brand’s feel so well.

Jemma says she likes the little things in life. And her description of being adventerous holds true in just her move from the UK to the US alone. Her Flickr album features, among other things, braided headbands, her enjoying the outdoors, and my favorite picture, her as a little girl with a bright pink handbag.

Julia, on the other hand, claims she was born in the wrong time, saying she has an old soul and that she loves music, writing in her journals, and can find inspiration in almost anything (I’m with you, Julia!). Pictures included in Julia’s Flickr album are of the ocean, playing drums in Jamaica, and her bookshelf.

After reading about these two bloggers today, I’ve been inspired to do some creative writing tonight.

Four Style Blogs I’m Addicted To

Posted on by Ashley Laurel

I have to say that getting a brand new Vogue magazine each month is something I’ve looked forward to every since I started becoming a collector about nine years ago. But between each publication? Among reading other fashion magazines, I usually turn to the web to get my fix of up to the minute style inspiration.

Here are the style blogs that keep me going:

LOOKBOOK.nu
The number one style blog I’ve been reading lately is LOOKBOOK.nu. This blog is my current favorite because it shows the types of clothes that I enjoy both looking at, and purchasing myself. I like the romantic laces and really amazing shoes. It’s also nice to see where others are shopping, and this site definitely shows off mixes of high end and low end finds. Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of H&M on the site, including my particular HM favorite, but unfortunately when I go to H&M the quality of some of the clothing isn’t as nice as the style.

One of my favorite style stars of the site posts outfits with a little illustration off to one side. This makes her stand out more than the some of the others who just post pictures, and all with a similar attitude (some trying way too hard).

Punky Style
Punky Style is a vintage style blog I started reading a few years ago during grad school in Boston (hey, procrastination is a big part of school). I had been searching for unique style blogs around Massachusetts and Punky Style was one of the first blogs that caught my attention, and the only one that I still read religiously. Though I can’t pull off half (ok, ok, more like 80%) of the looks Punky (Amy Chase) pulls off, it’s inspiring to see someone so daring in their personal style.

Perhaps even more so, it’s inspiring to watch a style blogger starting to emerge as a well known entrepreneur. Through both Haberdash Vintage (a vintage store on wheels) and the Swapaholics (please help me convince her to come to San Francisco and host a swap), Punky has been making quite a name for herself in the vintage shopping community.

Cupcakes and Cashmere
I don’t remember how I quite found this blog, but I’m going to guess somehow Twitter was involved. Anyway, this blog is simply adorable. Not only does Emily cover her personal style, but she often blogs about other things like how-tos, recipes, and home improvement; perfect for the modern girl. I like her approach to her style descriptions, and the easy way she has her past photos organized on her site for quick reference (at least to the month).



College Fashionista
Ok, wish I had this blog when I was in college! College Fashionista is the go- to spot on the web to see what college students across the the United States. Amy, the site’s founder, created the blog back in 2008 while attending Indiana University. Now the site covers more than 70 colleges/universities. Not only is it fun to see what’s hip on campuses these days, I like reading about student fashion shows, and ok, it doesn’t hurt to see my younger sister’s style findings published!

So there you have it. The top four style blogs I read and how I get some of my inspiration. What are your style blog favorites?