9. Jane Aldridge, Sea of Shoes
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Another oldie-but-goodie, if you can really say that about a 21-year-old. The endlessly fascinating Aldridge—who launched her blog in 2007 at age 15—continues to buck blogger trends, living with her parents in Dallas and staying far away from the thrills of fashion week. Yet her site, which attracts over one million pageviews a month, is still a favorite amongst industry insiders, mostly because she has great taste and adores fashion. Even a scathing Texas Monthly article, which pawned her off as a helium-headed mean girl, couldn’t get her down. “There is too much negativity out there,” she said in rebuttal on her website. “You can portray me as frivolous all day long but I’ll take frivolous over nasty any day.”