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Link Love

Link Love

This is a collection of brilliant posts collected by The Demoiselles over the week. Some may have been featured on our Twitter, some may have been sent to use through email, or by our friends on Facebook. Please check out, and send love to the blogs featured here – they’re all worth a look! Jezebel [...]

Link Love

Link Love

There have been some really interesting stories this week! Here are our favorites: Lillian Behrendt muses on American Apparel’s (and other “youth-centric” brands’) stifled sizing accommodations. I am in my early 20’s. I will wear stupid pants. So will just about everyone else who is my age. Stupid pants are an important part of human [...]

Link Love

Link Love

Link Love is back! Here’s what we’ve been loving for, uh, the last month or so… We are loving this ultra-empowering story of The Curvy Fashionista – we especially like the part where she creates the acronym, FATS: Forget All Those Stereotypes. According to NYMag, Marie Claire is hopping on the “no retouching” bandwagon with [...]

Links à la Mode: Pretty, Pretty

Links à la Mode: Pretty, Pretty

Pretty, Pretty Edited by Jennine Jacob It’s official, Spring is in full swing… we’ve all shed our winter fluff and there’s a certain buzz in the air… well, other than the pollen count. Like every week, we have a wonderful selection of links, but the recurring theme here was making ourselves pretty, whether it be [...]

Links à la Mode: Thinking Fashion

Links à la Mode: Thinking Fashion

Thinking Fashion Edited by Retro Chick It never ceases to amaze me the quality and variety of links that get submitted to IFB each week and how hard it is to pick just 20. Fashion & Style Bloggers are intelligent, thoughtful and insightful people who really understand their subject. Whether it’s Second Hand Shopper questioning [...]

In Another’s Nest: Link Love

In Another’s Nest: Link Love

Jaka Merriman, a friend and valued commenter, takes us through the “saga” of her hair color, and ends up with a new perspective on self-love. Chelsea Rae of Pink Rock Candy also saw the Crystal Renn/Jaquelyn Jablonski photoshoot – but she saw it surrounded by hate-mongering comments towards women’s bodies. Here’s her take on the [...]

Links à la Mode: The Holiday Edition

Links à la Mode: The Holiday Edition

The Happy Holidays Edition Edited by Retrochick Well, I suppose I shall start this weeks Links à la Mode with this: HAPPY CHRISTMAS! It’s Christmas Eve and I’m sure visions of sugar plums are dancing in everyone’s heads as they trim the tree and sup mulled wine in preparation for tomorrows frivolities. All too soon [...]

In Another’s Nest: Link Love

In Another’s Nest: Link Love

It’s been a while since we posted some love for our fellow writers, but we have been watching!  Some of these links are older than our usual one to two weeks, but they’re no less badass for it.  Enjoy!   Image via TheRoot.com The Root congratulates Gabourey Sidibe on her starring role in Precious, and [...]

Links à la Mode: Beyond Fashion

Links à la Mode: Beyond Fashion

Beyond Fashion Edited by Retro Chick This weeks Links à la Mode blows away any preconceived ideas of the narcissistic fashion blogger posting endless outfit photos and magazine shoots by covering a huge array of topics. Ranging from Dream Sequins whimsical birthday tea party to High Fashion Girls detailed examination of racism in fashion magazines, [...]

Links à la Mode: Our Differences Unite Us

Links à la Mode: Our Differences Unite Us

Our Differences Unite Us Edited by Fashion Pulse Daily Coming off of Ashe Mischief’s Independent Fashion Blogger’s Post (Good Cop/Bad Cop: Participating in Links a la Mode), you all brought your A-game in posting the links a la mode — which made it extra hard to edit! This week, the theme that I saw emerging [...]