Bright Collaborations With Gap

Gap’s new “Be Bright” spring line has added a fun collaboration to the mix. The brand just introduced its newest lineup of partnerships, and it looks, well, quite bright!

Gap introduced Styld.by, where fashion influencers each styled two looks from the line with their own personal touch. How fun is that? It’s always nice to get an idea of how to mix and match different pieces, especially from the best. The Styld.by line highlights the influence of bloggers in the fashion community and how their voices are being heard and put into action.

Five top fashion influencers have styled their looks on the site for you to browse, and you can shop the looks with just a click.

The colorful pieces have been “Styld.by” FabSugar, Lookbook.nu, MOG, Refinery29, and Rue Magazine. It adds a fun element of style to the commonly simple look of Gap clothing. Which look is your favorite?

Text Sera Michael

Source Styld.by

Baby's Got A Brand New Bag: The Baby Blackbird Blog

Style blogs are a wellspring of inspiration for many from college girls to fashion editors alike, providing a platform and voice for the everyday fashion maven who might otherwise go unheard. Allow us to introduce you to a few new mini-sized mavens. The Baby Blackbird blog proves that you’re never too young to get fashionably inspired and reinstates a much needed element of play.

The blog features the adorable children, Kingston and Harlow, of blogger Brandy and husband Chris wearing incredibly cute and dare we say, inspiring getups. However, it would be a mistake to think that this blog is just a bunch of photos of some cute kids and their parents. Among the many, features include categories such as Small Style Icon, where unique dapper kiddos are featured and even interviewed (with a little help from the ‘rents) and Mini Celebrity, where a current celeb look is translated and shrunk to wee size renditions.

The blog is incredibly well organized, thorough, and comes correct with a precise, intelligent and educated fashion perspective - a direct result of Brandy’s 8 years working in the Toronto fashion industry. Even if you don’t have kids of your own, this award winning blog (2011 Cribsie Award for Best Inside Track on Kids’ Wear Trends) is worth the read. Who knows, you may be inspired by some of the tiny ensembles yourself, and find yourself searching for the adult adaptation (note, Kingston’s suspenders and even mom Brandy’s French braid side bun)

Text Tienlyn Jacobson
Source: The Baby Blackbird

Point, Click, Shoot, Fashion

In the thriving world of fashion blogging, snapping personal style shots and expressing personal outlooks on fashion is slowly but surely becoming a genderless trend. In fact, fashion blogging has begun to pave the way for the industry's evolution into a community that no longer focuses solely on the needs of women, but of men as well. Consider prevalent sites like The Sartorialist and Bryanboy- quintessential examples of industry insiders who remain relatively unbiased when it comes to fashion, addressing concepts that apply to all the style obsessed. From a more visual standpoint, however, fashion photo-bloggers are contributing to men's style more than ever. All courtesy should be paid to gentlemen like Jak and Jil's tommy Ton, Street Peeper's Phil Oh, and the aforementioned Scott Schuman of The Sartorialist for the generous spotlight.

As seen in the most recent men's shows in Europe, photo-bloggers are becoming much more accustomed to utilizing street gentlemen as inspirational subjects for their perspective entries, either drawing comparisons between men and women's style or just glorifying men's style itself. Either way, these Internet phenoms have played a substantial amount of influence on the growing popularity of men's fashion, allowing typical followers of women's blogs to parlay into new territories. After all, one can easily be as inspired by a man's ensemble than as a woman's. But there are always boundaries. The point of fashion is to push towards breaking them.

Text Ricardo Hernandez
Source(s): Tommy Ton

Pants Heyday: Springtime's Hottest Looks... Pants?

Strolling down the streets of New York City during these few days of continuous sunshine, we couldn't help but to be stopped in our tracks by gorgeous girls in pants. Denim, lace, cloth... you name it. We're not talking boring slacks either. Women are currently rocking the boyfriend jeans, color blocking with cropped pants and donning skinny black cloth pants, high-waisted straight leg pants, patterned silk pants, cuffed twill pants and other major selections of the two-legged variety.

Here are a few pictures from blogs and style websites to inspire your look: