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Style99 May 2011: The New and Gaining Influential Fashion Blogs

Style99 May 2011: The New and Gaining Influential Fashion Blogs

After taking time to expand our starting index from 500 manually reviewed fashion blogs to more than 1000, we’ve published the results of our April/May 2011 ranking. What a difference a year makes: while almost none of the influential blogs from our April 2010 listing actually lost influence, there were quite a few that gained influence fast enough to shake up the top 99.

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Fashion Blog Favorites Not That Crazy About Fashion Blogs

Fashion Blog Favorites Not That Crazy About Fashion Blogs

Here’s one… different fashion blog trend: turns out a lot of fashion blogger favorites aren’t that into most fashion blogs.

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The Style Blog That Takes Aim At Style Bloggers

The Style Blog That Takes Aim At Style Bloggers

If you want attention for your new style blog, picking on an existing style blog in some way seems to be rule one in the Mean Girls Guide to Fashion handbook.

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Sketchy Issues: Inditex and Hermes Take Opposite Sides On Derivative Illustration Rights

Sketchy Issues: Inditex and Hermes Take Opposite Sides On Derivative Illustration Rights

Usage of photos found online is an oft debated issue: in 2007 there was the case of Flickr user Alison Chang, who found herself an unwitting model in a Virgin Mobile Australia advertising campaign; the Independent, a popular UK newspaper, ran into problems with Peter Zabulis when they failed to secure permission to feature a photo Zabulis took of snow. More recently, there’s the case of the Associated Press vs. Shepherd Fairey. Though the lawsuit was dropped in January of this year, plenty of issues remain surrounding the usage of photos in derivative works.

Now, two of fashion’s largest companies find themselves facing those questions.

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Imran Amed's Signature9

Imran Amed's Signature9
The Business of Fashion editor introduces us to his signature style items

Diane Pernet's Signature9

Diane Pernet's Signature9
Fashion blogger and film festival creator, Diane Pernet, shares nine of her favorite things

Video interview with Vogue Paris editor Carine Roitfeld

90 Seconds with Carine Roitfeld
In a Signature9 exclusive, we catch up with the Vogue Paris editor-in-chief

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