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What Your Favorite Fashion Industry Insiders Wore to Go Back to School

Remember how fun it was to pick out your outfit for the first day of school? New school year, new outfit, new you, right? Click through to see what all your favorite fashion industry insiders--everyone from Eva Chen to Oscar PR Girl's Erika Bearman to Rebecca Minkoff to DKNY PR Girl Aliza Licht--wore to go back to school--and shop the updated look for today.

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10 Dos & Don'ts on How to Network in Fashion Straight from the Pros

Women and men from across the world (some as far as Bombay) were sitting on the edge of their seats at our first ever "How to Make it in Fashion" conference a few weeks ago. The topic? How to network (the right way) in this competitive industry. Trust us, the advice was good--and that's because it came from industry pros like Melanie Bender, co-founder & partner of communications firm Post+Beam, Alisa Gould-Simon, co-founder of style sharing app Pose, Amber Venz, president & co-founder of affiliate link program rewardStyle, John Jannuzzi, a contributing editor at Lucky, and Ruthie Friedlander, the senior digital manager for The Row. They may be young, but they still have years of experience and had much knowledge to share. Read on to see what we learned.

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Style Advice I Learned from My Father

Dads. They get some pretty funny ideas about style. Like that wearing Hawaiian shirts is acceptable year-round. Or that socks with sandals is a totally cool look. But, though they may not be the most obvious style icons in our life, they've certainly passed down their own brand of sartorial wisdom--for better or worse. So, in honor of Father's Day, we asked our favorite fashion and celebrity friends--from Leandra Medine and Olivia Palermo to Wyclef Jean and Richard Chai--to share the most memorable style advice they ever got from their dad.

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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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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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Kate Middleton Won't Wear the Kardashian Kollection, Beyoncé Shows Off her Street Style, and Lady Gaga and Terry Richardson Shot a Rap Video

Apparently Kate Middleton said thanks, but no thanks to being klothed by the Kardashian kollection--and sent back some clothes she'd been sent. {HuffPo} Jessica Biel has confirmed what we all suspected already, that her honeymoon was amazing. She gushed to Scarlett Johansson about the trip to Tanzania. {US Weekly} Is Beyonce a budding fashion blogger? The few Instagram photos that she has shared seem to suggest so, and we're not complaining! {Refinery29}

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Decoding #Menswear: A Handy Guide To Understanding What the Hell Men's Style Blogs Are Talking About

From the increasingly well-documented street style scene outside of Pitti Uomo (it's starting to rival the scene outside any major fashion week venue) to the number of nattily dressed gents we see walking down the street in NYC, there's no question that dudes have been stepping it up in the personal style department. There's even a burgeoning menswear (that's #menswear if you're scrolling through Twitter or Tumblr) clique, comprised of editors at print publications like GQ and Complex as well as bloggers at sites like Four Pins and Selectism and Hypebeast. They are the arbiters of men's style, speakers of the language of #menswear. Yes, they have their own language and we dont' understand at all. Cop some jawns? That dude is sprezzy? Say what?

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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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Lessons on Being a Better Fashion Blogger from Rachel Zoe, Lauren Conrad, Leandra Medine and More at Lucky FABB

At Lucky magazine's Fashion and Beauty Blog Conference, bloggers came from all over the country to network and listen in on insight from speakers like the Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren, Rachel Zoe, The Man Repeller's Leandra Medine, Barneys' Simon Doonan and reality TV star-turned-fashion designer/blogger Lauren Conrad. Naturally, awesomeness ensued. Here's the four most important things I learned throughout the course of the day.

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Fashion's Most Stylish Guys Give Mark Zuckerberg an (Almost!) Hoodie-Free Makeover for Facebook's IPO

Mark Zuckerberg is having quite a month. The Father of Facebook just turned 28, bought out Instagram for $1 billion and is now facing the most lucrative point in his career: Going IPO on Friday. We’d offer him a congratulatory “poke” but sadly, that option’s no longer available. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the IPO acronym, it stands for Initial Public Offering-- meaning that the company will finally be open to stock holders where the likes of Wall Street—-and even you!—- can purchase a part of the social media company. But with the estimated $100 billion that’s supposedly coming his way, we’re wondering whether the Harvard dropout will invest in a new wardrobe. Will he finally change out of his usual uniform consisting of dowdy college hoodies, sweat-drenched Adidas shower flip flops, and tattered baggy jeans, into something more uh, dapper? Better yet, the question posed is this: Can all the money in the world transform someone from HTML geek to sartorial chic? Fashionistas can only hope! To give him an extra boost, we’ve enlisted the help of several fashion experts from designers like Carlos Campos, Alan Eckstein from Timo Weiland and Simon Kneen of Banana Republic, to editors from GQ and Esquire, to buyers and the likes to see what kind of advice they’d shed onto Silicon Valley’s hottest star. And regardless of whether he takes our suggestions or not (note to Marky Mark: you really, really should!), happy IPO Day! We’d definitely like to send you a congratulatory poke soon—- this time, live and in-person.

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Textbook for Fashionista: Amanda Brooks!

If you're familiar with Barneys New York--one of the city's, nay, the world's, best department stores--then you ought to be familiar with Amanda Brooks. Ms. Brooks, the fashion director, is a somewhat new addition to Barneys, having joined in February. Prior to her position uptown, Ms. Brooks worked as brand consultant for everyone from DvF and Roger Vivier to Chanel and Tod's. She's most certainly wise in the ways of fashion. But if that's not clear from her resume, then just take a look at her personal style--she's got a closet that makes any editor jealous. Brooks has already done quite a few interesting things at Barneys--see Daphne Guinness, Carine Roitfeld for proof--and we'll continue watching her work at the Madison Avenue landmark closely.

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Textbook for Fashionista: Iris Apfel

If you've ever read Advanced Style, one of my favorite blogs, then you're probably familiar with Iris Apfel. Iris is without a doubt one of New York's most treasured style icons, darting around the city in her trademark spectacles, decked out in accessories while remaining light and effortless. At Monday's CFDA awards, Ms. Apfel told the story of how she once worked for WWD and earned a salary of $15 per week. True, that was a standard wage back then but we still shudder to think about it. After her time at WWD she began working in the textile industry where she further honed her style and sharp eye for prints, textures and patterns--it's no wonder she has unmatched style. Before presenting Alexander Wang with his Accessories Designer of the Year award, Ms. Apfel proclaimed that she is indeed a fan of the accessory. All it takes is a Google image search to see that she wasn't lying.

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Textbook for Fashionista: Elsa Schiaparelli

Back in the day, there were two women designers causing quite a stir at about the same time. One of them, easily a household name, was Coco Chanel and I think we all know how that turned out. The other is slightly more elusive, but equally as important to the industry. Her name was Elsa Schiaparelli and to say she had a flare for the dramatic is most definitely an understatement. While Ms. Chanel was freeing women from antiquated silhouettes, Elsa was making us look at fashion with a different lens--a surreal lens. She's most known for teaming up with artists like Salvador Dalí: Consider it like the first version of the H&M collabs. Aside from rubbing elbows with some of the finest surrealists, she had a flair for innovation--to Elsa, a shoe could be a hat, a lobster was a perfect addition to a dress and a bow could be just as pretty if it were simply an illusion. So let's give it up for master of pattern, print and all things hot pink, Elsa Schiaparelli.