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

Lookbook Cookbook: Consumption At Its Best

By now we are all aware of Look Book’s gloriously vainglorious slew of styled fashion heads. Indeed, the voyeuristic tendencies of anyone interested in fashion will have driven him or her to the popular site at least once, if not repeatedly. Although a prime example, modern voyeurism doesn’t stop at just fashion. When the relationship between the iPhone and Twitter went from flirtation to full on fornication, one might have expected an assemblage of ensemble related images to dominate the internet. Instead it seemed that the iPhone had opened up a door for layman food photography – an obsession that took over the Twittersphere. Perhaps this is partially due to the fact that your food can still look amazing even if you are wearing dirty sweatpants, but more than anything, the trend reminds us of that what voyeurism truly is, is consumption – no matter what shape or form it may take.

What to wear, what to wear...

Walking through the East Village in New York the other day with a few friends-making our way to what turned out to be an AMAZING dinner-something happened...a woman with a camera the size of her petite torso walked up and stopped one of my friends, asking to take a picture of her for her fashion blog. Cool, yes; however, given the fact that of the three of us i'm the only one slaving to make my way into the fashion industry, I would be remiss to deny my gnawing jealousy as she cooly and nonchalantly posed for the snap snap.

So what does it take to be photographed for a fashion blog? I mean street wear blogs are everywhere right? Sitting at home, not at all still thinking about it days later I have decided to pile a quick list of things that seem to tie most of the photographs together....again, not that I care....psssshhh (you believe me right? yea...bad liar.)

1) Dont fool yourself...everyone knows when you've got lazy face on. Whether it be the poof of a powder that pulls you together or 50 minutes infront of the mirror, really you wear make up from the inside out no matter how much or how little. And if you put on lazy face that morning...everyone knows, the guilt is brighter than any lipstick you own.

2) There always seems to be a pop of color, whether it comes from the aforementioned lipstick, a jacket, some glasses...whatever, but there is always something that draws the eye to that "wow" factor.

3) Your schtick. For my friend, I've never seen anyone pull off the over-sized glasses look better. On me, I'd feel like I was trying to hard, but on her it just looks right.

I know, these things really just apply to life in general, not getting photographed. What I think really pulls it all together, whether you find yourself in a foray with the camera, or just walking down to the corner store for that Ben and Jerry's you will deny buying later, is the cheesy answer you've probably already guessed...confidence. I felt like no one should look at me, so no one did, my friend looked like she'd been up partying with rockstars, so people assume she had. What will you rock on your next outing?

Text Corinna Fabre