This week, I had the pleasure of editing Independent Fashion Bloggers’ Links à la Mode post. Picking just 20 of the submitted links was nearly impossible but I managed it and there are some really great posts for your Sunday reading:

LINKS À LA MODE: THE IFB WEEKLY ROUND UP: JANUARY 17TH

Edited by: Emily of Sugar and Spice

We’re already halfway through the first month of 2013 but that doesn’t mean bloggers aren’t still in reflective mode: creating resolutions for the coming year and looking to up-coming trends, whilst also looking back on the trends of 2012. There’s also a reflective element in many of the posts this week over blogging and how that might change over the coming year, not just on a personal level but more generally too. There’s also a good dose of travel inspired posts this week for those who are trying to beat the January blues and jet off somewhere sunny. And if you’re not jetting off somewhere away from the cold, make sure to check out the great how to layer below:

• Aesthete: Fashion vs Style: Who’s Your Icon?
• A Brit Greek: The Ultimate Guide to Finding Perfect Jeans
• Avenue M: My Wardrobe Storage and Decorating Ideas
• Bougeotte: The New Way to Colorblock
• Chocolate Sarcasm: To Do 2013
• Fashion On The Line: London Snow Fashion
• Floral Mess: Top Trends of 2012
• Fly Songbird: Not Doing It For Free
• Hopeless Anorak: The Wonder of Marc Jacobs – Can Fashion Talk?
• House of Modern Vintage: Travelling in Style
• IFB: The Best Tips For Part-Time Bloggers
• Incognito: Interview Greta Miliani Italian Blogger
• Lifestyles of the Thrifty and Shameless: Savin’ Maven Monday: Packing for Roadtrip
• Moi Minnie: 2013
• Of Mice and Trend: Simple Winter Layering
• Secret Style File: Mad For Monochrome
• Style, Saran-Wrapped: Not Colors
• Stylonylon: The Anxiety of Blogging – Can You Feel It?
• Sugar and Spice: Who Do You Dress For?
• We Are The Market: Insiders Guide to Berlin
• Youth Savage: The Re-design Issue Part 2: Ethics

This week Amanda, aka The Online Stylist, reminded us to treasure Life’s Small Pleasures. I think this is a lesson we can all take on board, to make time for the small things that make life that little bit better and more enjoyable. And then when I received the weekly newsletter from The Simply Luxurious Life on Friday, it pointed to a post originally published nearly two years entitled, Why Not Revel in Simple Pleasures? So this week, instead of the usual Sunday Links, I thought I’d share my small pleasures with you:

• A good meal;
• Good friends;
• Sharing a giggle with someone;
• Fresh flowers;
• A quite moment – or two – to read and unwind;
• A pretty scene;
• Breakfast;
• The first cup of coffee of the day.

What small pleasures do you enjoy each day?

Images via (clockwise from top left): The Glitter Guide Tumblr; Pinterest via Whittengrey.com; Pinterest via Brayola; Ruffles and Pleats Tumblr; Pinterest. (All square images via the Sugar & Spice tumblr)

I was also lucky enough to be included in this week’s Links à la Mode over at Independent Fashion Bloggers:

The holiday are literally just around the corner and there are only two sleeps to go! Is everyone else as excited as I am?!

If you’re planning some last minute shopping, I can only wish you good luck!

For me, the weekend before Christmas and Christmas Eve (tomorrow) are all about winding down and recharging. I’ll be watching as many Christmas films as possible: Home Alone, Miracle on 34th Street, Elf, It’s a Wonderful Life, Love Actually. They’re all lined up for an entire day of viewing! Plus, the UK premiere of The Snowman and the Snowdog tomorrow.

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This week, I edited Links à la Mode for IFB:

Hope you’re all having a wonderful weekend. Whilst enjoying a coffee this Sunday morning, I have found you a few lovely links for your reading pleasure:

• Check out The Glitter Guide’s 5 Things To Try This Weekend: maybe kick back, put on some cozy socks, pour a glass of wine, and dive into a new book.
• Pink Bow shares her Sunday at Home: and introduced me to the amazing Nigellissima iPad app.
• Christmas has come early at Selfridges and over at Fashion Foie Gras: I can’t wait!
• I’m addicted to DIY blogs right now and none do it better than A Pair & A Spare: I’m hoping to make my own Cavier Inspired Cap Toe Heels or Brocade Mini Skirt.
• Feathers and Frills shows us around Chanel’s Little Black Jacket exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery: which I will be going to later this week.

What have you been reading this week?

This week I was also lucky enough to have a link included in IFB’s Links à la Mode:

Lovely Links will return next week – and if you have a link you think I should include – please let me know in the comments below. Until then, here are this weeks, Links à la Mode:

Reflecting on Fall

Edited by: Emily of Sugar & Spice
The cold weather seems to have well and truly graced our shores this week and as we all scramble to put together something that resembles style whilst also keeping us warm — we are all trying to remember what trends we should be rocking this season, after months in our summer wardrobes. Well, allow this week’s posts to inspire, educate and warm you.

LINKS À LA MODE: THE IFB WEEKLY ROUND UP: SEPTEMBER 27TH

• A Casa da Va: Dreaming of a Country Retreat and musing over what to wear
• Adentro Style: Mean’s Trends at NYFW
• Buy Any Means Necessary: The Best and Worst at the Emmys
• Chic All Week: Make It Work At Work
• Fashion’s Fade, Style Is Eternal: The Cold is Coming
• I’ve 2 Tell U: The diary of a fashion student in Milan: Behind the scenes at MFW SS12
• Morbid Glamour: Inspired by Stripes
• Musings of a PR Girl: Life in Fashion PR
• Project Style: How to dress for the office
• Skeletons out of the Closet: Catwalk details
• Sugar & Spice: 5 Key Pieces For AW12
• The Closet Coach: Do I Have To Pay Attention to Trends?
• The Curvy Elle: Happiness should be in fashion
• The Penny Rose: Fast Fashion
• Studs and Sapphires: Best Memories Come From Bad Ideas
• Tickle Me Chic: Harvest Happenings
• Rue de Tres Chic: Smoky Eyes
• To Bruck Ave: NEPALcrystals
• Libby’s (out)Look: When the Stars Go Blue
• Laura Valuta: Fall Fashion

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If you would like to submit your link for next week’s Links à la Mode, please register first, then post your links HERE. The HTML code for this week will be found in the Links a la Mode widget on the right side of the blog, and will be published later today. ~ Jennine

Clockwise from top left: Bling it On with Styloko and their guide to accessories that’ll jazz up your basics; Wendy Brandes wrote an eloquent rebuke to the horrible trolls who thought they had the right to comment on the appearance of female Olympic athletes rather than concentrate on their sporting achievements; Into The Gloss has a new “office boyfriend” and I’m jealous! The Glitter Guide’s 5 Things To Try This Weekend post is still my Friday favourite; Ann Colville - the lovely lady behind the fabulous beauty blog Cult of Pretty – has done it again, launching a new style blog, Lady, which is about when style grew up; and finally, Faye over at Girl Does Geek discussed the issue of diversity in fashion blogging and the difference between the US and the UK.

What have you been reading this week? I was lucky enough to be included in Links à la Mode this week:

Clockwise from top left: I’m dreaming of summers in NYC thanks to photos like this over at shut up, I love that shirt on you; The Online Stylist was lucky enough to spend a week in the South of France on her holidays and this week shared her memories of Monaco; Ruby Warrington shares her style lessons from NYC over at Styloko; Garance Doré spoke to her yoga teacher about her career path – now I want to be a zen yogi too! The Beauty Department gives us the All Black manicure; and finally, i am not a celebrity continues to inspire me each and every morning with the beautifully curated posts and pictures.

I was lucky enough to be included in this week’s Links à la Mode:

I was lucky enough to be included in this week’s Links à la Mode (bottom) over at IFB and I also found out this week that I’ll be editing the feature once a month for the next nine months or so!! Here’s what I’ve been reading this week:

Clockwise from top left: In celebration of the Jubilee last weekend, A Girl, A Style posted a few of her favourite things about English style – a wonderfully nostalgic post which made me feel quite patriotic! Over at eat.sleep.denim we got a masterclass in adding neon to our denim looks; Styloko have firmly placed the Olsen twins on my style radar (yes, I know, I’m well behind the times – but how amazing did they look at the CFDAs?!); being the biggest fan of Sex and the City I was always going to love this post over on The Simply Luxurious Life giving 24 lessons in love and life from the series; Feathers and Frills hows you how to get the garcon chic look (à la Emmanuelle Alt); and finally, The Glitter Guide is also encouraging the use of colour, hot pink to be precise!

I love discovering new blogs to read and IFB’s weekly Links à la Mode is a great place to start finding them. All of this week’s Lovely Links come from this week’s post:

Clockwise from top left: designed by ann discusses how to create an identity for your blog; brunette blogging identifies the trends that all the bloggers love the most; julip made shows us some of spring’s make-up trends and how to try them now; the chic street reviews Celine’s collection and discusses its wearability; fashioned by love gives some good advice about how to make the most of high street designer collaborations; and finally, little miss makeup shares her make-up kit.

What have you been reading this week?

Clockwise from top left: pl0y.com discusses the new look Vogue Paris website and the relationship with the traditional print press and their online presence; Check out the final NYC epsiode of Garance Doré’s Pardon My French mini-series on her blog; I was so pleased when my How to Wear the Print Trend for SS12 post made it into this week’s Links à la Mode (below); So I also picked out a couple of my favourite posts from this week’s selection, including Woodstock Wardrobe’s take on NYFW’s retro silhouettes; and Simply Frabulous’s presentation of the complete Marni x H&M collection – I want everything! and finally, I simply adore Push PR’s Fashion Week facts.

What have you been reading this week?

Springing Forward

Edited By Taylor Davies

I don’t know about all of you, but I’ve been ready for spring since about, mmm, December. I love cold weather, I love snow, I love bundling up – but I saw so many amazing trends and looks during September’s fashion week that I could hardly wait to wear. At least in New York, it seems like winter barely even arrived this year. Today for example, it’s about 60 degrees in Manhattan! Everywhere people are in their shirtsleeves and sunglasses, it feels and awful lot like spring is already here.

From the looks of this week’s Links à La Mode submissions, I’m not the only one with spring fashion fever. There were so many posts about trends and looks we’ll all be embracing – or are already! From printed pants to neon bags, ladylike dresses and the upcoming Marni for H&M collection – and of course some inspiring DIY projects – everything’s coming up floral! Check out this week’s inspiring and fashionable posts, and as always, thank you for the wonderful submissions!

THE IFB WEEKLY ROUNDUP: LINKS À LA MODE: FEBRUARY 2ND

• Anthony Carmen: #NYFW – Menswear Trends We Need in AW12
• Do You Speak Gossip: How To: A Matte Manicure With Shiny Tips
• Endear: Overheard at New York Fashion Week
• Lady Of Fashion: DIY Boot Strapping
• Lure Of The Dark Side: Adele
• My Fashion Wishlist: New Fashion Sweetheart – Lana Del Rey
• My Haute Habit: Floral Fancies
• Paper + Cloth: An Ode To The Little Black Dress
• Pattern Rebellion: Feed Your Jewelry Addition With Melody’s Pieces
• Sequined Sprinkles: Friday Favorites: Black & White Edition
• Sidewalk Chic: Reality vs. Creativity in Fashion Blogging
• Simply Frabulous: The Mystery Has Been Revealed: Marni For H&M, The Looks
• SoCal Sophisticate: Trend-y Tuesday – She’s a Lady
• Style Delights: Trend To Try – Neon Bags (And How To Wear Them)
• Sucker For Sequins: Sequins + Stripes
• Sugar and Chiffon: Red Pencil Skirt + Leopard Belt, 3 Ways
• Sugar and Spice: How To Wear The Print Trend For SS12
• The Classic Woman: Style & Grace – Jackie Kennedy
• The Love Hanger: DIY Peplum Top
• Woodstock Wardrobe: Fashion Week AW12 – Retro Silhouettes in a Modern Context

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If you would like to submit your link for next week’s Links à la Mode, please register first, then post your links HERE. The HTML code for this week will be found in the Links a la Mode group will be published later today. ~Jennine