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Monday May 20th, 2013

How Yahoo’s Acquisition Could Affect Tumblr’s Fashion Community

How Yahoo’s Acquisition Could Affect Tumblr’s Fashion Community

Today, Tumblr–home of gifs, memes, and NSFW photos–joins the ranks of corporate America: It’s just been bought by Yahoo for $1.1 billion.

Besides goofy cat videos and loads (seriously, loads) of porn, Tumblr also hosts one of the most passionate, creative, and irreverent fashion communities out there on the internets. So now the question is: How will that community, which so far has thrived on the free-for-all vibe that prevails at Tumblr, be affected by the new acquisition?

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Published at 6:12 PM

Monday May 13th, 2013

Join Zac Posen, Rebecca Minkoff, and the Man Repeller at Our First Conference!
How I'm Making It

Join Zac Posen, Rebecca Minkoff, and the Man Repeller at Our First Conference!

Fashionista is excited to host its first ever day-long event, How to Make It in Fashion.

This isn’t just another conference where you leave with a goodie bag and nothing else. (Although there will be a great one.) Along with tips on networking, alternative career paths, and plain old inspiring success stories, you’ll have a chance to actually talk one-on-one with many of our speakers (including Zac Posen, the Man Repeller’s Leandra Medine, Rebecca Minkoff and more) as well as Fashionista editors about how to kick-start your career or take it to the next level. You’ll get real, take-home advice, make connections, and who knows? Maybe you’ll take the first step towards your dream job.

All the deets and how to sign up, right this way.

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Published at 12:25 PM

Friday April 12th, 2013

Tuesday April 9th, 2013

CFDA/Tumblr ‘Inside the Designer’s Home’ Series Kicks Off with Lela Rose
Fashion Careers

CFDA/Tumblr ‘Inside the Designer’s Home’ Series Kicks Off with Lela Rose

Picture this: You’re 20. A student at FIT, Pratt, or Parsons. You’re obsessed with fashion. So obsessed, in fact, that you’ve started a Tumblr dedicated to your favorite corner of the fashion world: models, photography, or menswear. You’ve gained a bit of recognition in the Tumblr community. And you’re sitting in Lela Rose’s TriBeCa loft, in her gorgeous wood-paneled dining room, eating a meal she’s cooked herself off of mix-and-match plating she’s picked up here and there over the years.

Sounds like dream come true, right? Well, Monday morning it became a reality for several of Tumblr’s biggest fashion users.

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Tuesday February 19th, 2013

Thursday January 3rd, 2013

Pokémon Goes High Fashion, Mulberry Takes Meghan Collison Underwater, and Tights That Look Like They’re Melting
Fashion News Roundup

Pokémon Goes High Fashion, Mulberry Takes Meghan Collison Underwater, and Tights That Look Like They’re Melting

Jersey Shore might be over, but that apparently doesn’t mean seeing any less of J.Woww: The MTV star flashed a bit too much of herself at the network’s New Year’s show. {HuffPo}

On Tumblr, 23-year-old Zara employee Francis Phommisai combines fashion editorials with Pokémon–and the results are kind of amazing. {Daily Beast}

Crystal Harris finally wed her Playboy honey Hugh Hefner in a pink gown, which makes us wonder if this trend is finally over. {US Weekly}

Meghan Collison goes under the sea for Mulberry’s spring campaign, shot by Tim Walker. {WWD}

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Published at 2:30 PM

Wednesday October 17th, 2012

New Start Up Fohr Card Aims to Bring Bloggers and Brands Together
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New Start Up Fohr Card Aims to Bring Bloggers and Brands Together

You know how brands partner with bloggers to create editorial content and capitalize on their influence? And how those brands pay bloggers so they can make a living?

Fohr Card, a new start up founded by former Tumblr fashion director Rich Tong, Holly Stair and James Nord (all of whom met through Tumblr), aims to streamline that process for bloggers and brands alike.

We chatted with Tong’s co-founder Holly Stair about how the project came about, the response from bloggers and brands, and what’s next.

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Published at 3:45 PM

Tuesday August 21st, 2012

Fashion News Roundup: Lily Aldridge Tweets First Photo of Baby Dixie Pearl, Miranda Kerr Films Japanese Ad, and Nicki Minaj Dishes on Pink Friday Perfume
Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Lily Aldridge Tweets First Photo of Baby Dixie Pearl, Miranda Kerr Films Japanese Ad, and Nicki Minaj Dishes on Pink Friday Perfume

Lily Aldridge tweeted this adorable photo of her daughter (and probably future supermodel musician) Dixie Pearl being held in the air by poppa (and Kings of Leon frontman) Caleb Followill. Awwwww. {US Weekly} Good news: Michael Phelps gets to keep that Louis Vuitton ad that, er, doesn’t officially exist yet as well as all his Read more →

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Tuesday August 14th, 2012

Tuesday August 7th, 2012

Carine Roitfeld Met With Tumblr Bloggers, Will Launch Her Own Tumblr Before Fashion Week
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Carine Roitfeld Met With Tumblr Bloggers, Will Launch Her Own Tumblr Before Fashion Week

Earlier today, we reported that Andre J was photographed in NYC with Carine Roitfeld for something involving her forthcoming magazine CR Fashion Book, and that Tumblr’s “Fashion Evangelist” Valentine Uhovski was there. All info we learned from good ol’ Twitter. Now we know a little more about what was going down and what CR Fashion Read more →

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Wednesday August 1st, 2012

Tuesday July 31st, 2012

Annie Leibovitz Just Shot Lauren Santo Domingo, Mayor Bloomberg and Arianna Huffington For Vanity Fair
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Annie Leibovitz Just Shot Lauren Santo Domingo, Mayor Bloomberg and Arianna Huffington For Vanity Fair

It looks like Vanity Fair is going to have some sort of NYC tech power players feature in a forthcoming issue. Perhaps even a cover considering the number of people involved and the fact that VF tapped Annie Leibovitz to shoot it. Apparently Leibovitz and NYC-famous subjects including (a very pregnant) Lauren Santo Domingo, Mayor Read more →

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