Fashion has Brains
Edited by Ashe
Every week I am always surprised by the selection of posts we receive here at IFB. I think back to before I started my blog, the discrimination I felt working in retail and adoring fashion, because it was shallow and it wasn’t academic. Now I look at the community I am a part of and think– how could anyone accuse fashion enthusiasts of being shallow? Or fashion designers, lovers of style? Indeed, like any frowned upon medium or niche, fashion has brains; it has ingenuity, it has controversy, it has creativity, and it has depth.
This week I want to celebrate those putting fashion and intellect together, to show that there’s more than meets that glittering eye…
Oh, and if you’re looking for something to do this summer… IFB is looking for interns!
Links à la Mode : April 22
- Agent Lover: – On The Search For The Perfect Retro Bathing Suit!
- Alice in Stilettos: – Interview with Edgy, Up-and-Coming Designer Chelsea Sutrisno
- Bay Area Style File: – Interview with Model turned Eco Friendly Beauty Brand owner Josie Maran.
- Bobbins and Bombshells: – Fashionable History: Lilly Dache – A True Fashion Success Story.
- Denim Debutante: – Meet US-Made NAEM Denim and Win Your Own Pair
- dramatis personae: – Back to the Future
- Fashion Pulse Daily: – Cynthia Rowley for Roxy Spring 2010
- For Those About to Shop: – Crystal Renn’s inspiring story of transformation may make you think twice about modelling industry:
- krameymartin: – Being pregnant doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice your fashion sense. Check out this post to learn how to jazz up simple maternity pieces.
- La Chanelphile: – “The Allure of Chanel” by Paul Morand with Illustrations by Karl Lagerfeld
- M.I.S.S.: – The Rag Trade: The Sale Mentality. This week’s article looks at how we will get consumers to break the sale mentality and pay full price again.
- Night Watch: – DIY Tutorial: Burberry Prorsum F/W 2010-11 Inspired Blazer
- Oh, the Places You’ll Go!: – ASOS Curve Models – Plus, or not plus enough?
- Oranges and Apples: – Some thoughts on weight, fat activism and health
- Poetic & Chic: – Hamish Bowles, European Editor at Large for Vogue, visits the de Young in San Francisco to announce a new Balenciaga retrospective slated for spring 2011.
- Retro Chick: – Made To Measure – Dresses for those who aren’t a standard size
- shrimp salad circus: – DIY Spring Flowers Headband/Belt for Under
- The Coveted – Craving Miu Miu Clogs?
- the fashionate traveller: – Discovers the emerging Japanese fashion trend Dolly Kei, as seen through a visit to Grimoire, Shibuya’s premier vintage store.
- The Fashionista Lab: – I gave up shopping and gained a new perspective on using and building my wardrobe (hint: shoes are important)
- True Queen: – Warning: Men In Skirts – Examining a taboo trend that attempts to go mainstream
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Wow! This post just addressed my thoughts. I’m a mathematician by profession who writes poems, short stories and well novels [of which none has yet been completed]. I’m a debate trainer as well. But fashion is a great passion of mine that I started a fashion blog a year back. Among my literary and fashions blogs, the fashion blog has gotten well ahead. I enjoy more blogging about it. But then a close friend, an English major and a debate trainer as well, has started criticizing my fashion blogging calling it “vain” and “unadmirable”. Haha! Guess what? I didn’t even debate with her. Why should I if the critique is not even in this world called fashion? It’s a waste to try to convince them, they are not capable of understanding especially if they don’t even have a clue of it. In short, they’re just not fashion!
.-= Gleenn´s last blog ..Style Tips: How to wear animal prints =-.
Regarding the general perception that all fashionistas are dumb and shallow:. One cannot change this stereotype alone, one must simply go on everyday disproving this erroneous thesis through practical example and sound argument. (Indeed, the Manolo had to just chastise the well-educated person who described Donatella Versace as stupid. She has many visible problems, but stupidity is no where to be found among them. She is the smart woman who has demonstrated her capability in the very public way.)
In the meantime, the Manolo suggests you read his friend Linda Grant’s new book, “The Thoughtful Dresser”. Here is the very intelligent woman, who is the widely respected journalist and novelist, who has written the book all about loving clothing and fashion, and how it is the honorable and life-affirming pursuit.
.-= Manolo the Shoeblogger´s last blog ..Turn Around, Bright Eyes =-.
@Manolo,
You have put in words very strong arguments addressing this erroneous perceptions about fashionistas. “The thoughful dresser” sounds a great read.
.-= Gleenn´s last blog ..Style Tips: How to wear animal prints =-.
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