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Fajr Muhammed
Breck Bennett
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Kim L.
Sarah Sudar
Ceri Heathcote
Morena & Chelsea
Maddie Maschger
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Liz Fulghum
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FROM THE EDITOR
More bloggy goodness
Welcome to the sophomore
issue of Style Sample
Magazine! As I type this, the
first issue has over 160,000
page views and counting, which
is a testament to the growing
strength and influence of the
fashion blogging community.
We rock!
One of the reasons I started
SSM (that's how insiders refer
to it, dahling) was to create
opportunities for fellow fashion
bloggers to do what they love--
writing, editing, designing,
etc.--while featuring the best
and brightest in the online
fashion space. For Issue #2 I
wanted to offer even more
opportunities to contribute, so
I'm extremely excited about the
fact that over 25 bloggers were
a part of this issue!
To that end, you'll notice a few
new additions--a news section,
a separate contributor page,
and a fun trend editorial. If
you're a fashion blogger, you
can be included, too:
send your information to
magazine@thestylesample.com
or sign up to contribute!
Before you do that, though,
you'll definitely want to check
out the great articles featuring
The Glamourai, an exciting day
in life of fashion PR, a social
media-savvy blogger in
business, as well as tips on
writing first-rate posts and
taking amazing photos.
I'm always interested in your
ideas and working on ways to
help you do what you love, so
go to StyleSampleMag.com to
fill out the quick "What do you
want to do?" survey and give
your feedback!
Contact me at
tamia@thestylesample.com .
*Note: all web and email
addresses are working links,
so click away!
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6 Blogs to Watch
Featuring My Idea of Fashion, India's World,

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Jay Vintage, and Je Ne Sais Quoi.

Trends: Summer Heat

Six great bloggers let us in on their favorite
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ways to beat the heat.
Edited by Fajr of Stylish Thought

10 A Day in the Life

Fashion PR professional Beka of reLYME
leads us on showroom visits, brainstorming

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sessions, and lively after parties.

Blogging + Business
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Crosby, the media mastermind behind PR
Couture, explains how blogging helped her
career blossom.
By Sarah of Looking Sharp!

13 Emerging Designer
Portuguese designer Carla Coquenim displays
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the darling clutches from her Cozy
Handmade line.
By Morena & Chelsea of Too Haute to
Handle

14 Feature: The Glamorous Life

The Glamourai lets us in on the secret of what
makes her so...well, glamorous!
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By Kim of Cupcakes and Mace

18 Tips & Advice

When it comes to blogging, writing is half the
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battle. Ceri of Style Eyes gives us some tips.

19 How-To
Maddie of Sprinkle Diary shows us how to
take delectably quirky photos.

20 Notes from the Blogosphere 20

One Question, Three Bloggers with Diane,
Sonya, and Marcella
Edited by Breck of Fashion Without Guilt
Quotable! 19
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contributors
Fajr Muhammad Morena & Chelsea
Stylish Thought Too Haute to Handle
Fajr Muhammad bka Aspiring models, self-
Ms. Thought is a proclaimed vintage
writer, fashion lover addicts and just pretty
and aspiring know-it- alluring girls in
all. When she's not general, we share a
strapped to her laptop love for writing as well
or on Ebay, she can be as the dream of
found spending too becoming editors for
much money on shoes, Vogue. As California
dancing to Prince, and bred girls, we were
conducting “research” definitely meant to
for her blog meet each other.
Stylish Thought.
Maddie Maschger
Sprinkle Diary
Maddie Maschger, aka.
Sprinkle started
blogging to find like-
minded creative people
Ceri Heathcote
and shares her
Style Eyes photography, writing,
Ceri Heathcote art, & personal
provides fashion moments. She lives in
blogging and internet the Midwestern US,
marketing through her but hopes to someday
company Heathcote reside in a big city,
Communications. She chasing her dreams.
also writes her own You can find her
blog, Style Eyes. blogging at Sprinkle-
Diary or at her etsy
4 shop, Imagine Pirineos.
Sarah Sudar
Looking Sharp!
Breck Bennett Sarah is a graduate of
Fashion Without Guilt the University of
Breck Bennett is the Pittsburgh and
creator of Fashion currently a student at
Without Guilt, a blog Point Park University
dedicated to bringing working on her
affordable fashion to Master's Degree. When
the masses. she's not blogging or
writing, she can be
found shopping at
independent boutiques
around Pittsburgh and
writing on her blog
Looking Sharp!
Kim L. Liz Fulghum
Cupcakes and Mace East by West
Kim aka Ms Liz Fulghum is a
Constantine is a designer living and
blogger and jewelery working in Nashvegas,
Tennessee. She has a
maker from
passion for style and
Wellington, New
great design, and an
Zealand. She has
unhealthy obsession
recently given up on
with typography.
the corporate world
and is pursuing her
dream of being able to
play with trinkets and
surf the net for a living.
 NEWS
Interesting news, information, and announcements from the fashion blogosphere

IFB GOES SOCIAL CLICK FOR GLAM

Independent Fashion The Glamourai has
Bloggers has gone collaborated with
from a blog to a social Shrimpton Couture to design
network featuring an exclusive capsule
message boards, user collection of jewelry for the
profiles, and image online vintage emporium. It
galleries in addition to doesn't stop there: More of
the helpful tips and The Glamourai's gorgeous
contributions that one-of-a-kind jewelry made
have always been a from vintage materials can be
part of the network. purchased online at etsy.com.

Founder Jennine Tamm notes that the transition was

necessary to keep up with member growth and continue to
make IFB "a relevant fashion resource for bloggers." Current
IFB members can update their profiles and newbies can join in
the fun by logging in at independentfashionbloggers.org

OGSHOP AT
JAY VINTAGE OPENED A BL
.BLOGSPOT.COM
JAYLOVESVINTAGEFABFINDS

CHICTOPIA
CONTEST
Modcloth is sponsoring a vintage LIVE BLOGGING
inspiration contest on Chictopia.com. StyleBubble's Susie Lau will live blog
From May 22-June 22, Chictopia from Britain's Graduate Fashion
members can upload one of their Week, which takes place June 7-11,
vintage inspired outfits and tag it as 2009. Susie's blog (as if it isn't already
“vintage inspired” during the upload on your blogroll) is
process. Two winners will be chosen to stylebubble.typepad.com.

*
Photo: Philip Waterman

receive $100 gift certificates to

ModCloth.

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