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Style Vs. Fashion: Links à la Mode

Style vs Fashion Edited by Retro Chick With the Fashion Week season in full swing and Fashion Pulse Daily live blogging from the IFB conference it can be easy to forget that there are other things going on in the world, where real women are shopping and dressing for real occasions. There were actually surprisingly few Fashion Week Related posts:

  1. Links à La Mode: Style, An Introspective Approach
  2. Links à la Mode : The Heavyweights
  3. Links à la Mode: Beyond Fashion
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The Holiday Spirit

This post was written by the AMAZING Scarlet, and I’m so overjoyed to be able to share her writing with you. Besides being an AWESOME stylist, and my BFF, she’s hilarious, incredibly smart, and a wealth of insight. I read this little note and had to ask if she’d let me post Related posts:

  1. Work Your Passion
  2. Oh! December!
  3. Those Bright Words…
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Best of 2009

Each New Year’s Eve, many of us look back upon the last year and say “this is what I still need to accomplish,” and sometimes, “I achieved these resolutions.”  It’s often a last minute thing, and it doesn’t really give you a good incentive to look back on what worked this year, and what was Related posts:

  1. Oh! December!
  2. Post Inauguration Obamania
  3. The Holiday Spirit
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Wholestyle Bonus Roundup: Thanksgiving!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!  We couldn’t leave you hanging this week, so we’re bringing you an abbreviated roundup full of fun Thanksgiving-y links.   Meanwhile, we’re going to go nap on our respective couches while we wait for this magical Turkey Goodness to happen… Gobble gobble! Food Lifehacker: Use Oats to Make Great Faux-Meat Veggie Burgers The Kitchn: Leftover Bits – What Related posts:

  1. Wholestyle on the Web: Week of 10/16/09
  2. The Holiday Spirit
  3. Bonne Vie gets the Awesome Seal of Approval
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The Art of Self Love

It’s not enough to be mere amazing mortals, we continually have to be something more. We have to be brighter, we have to be bigger. We must be smarter and faster. We must be genius and impress others with our sense of style. We must be the famed writers, the acclaimed Related posts:

  1. Thursday’s Love List
  2. The Inevitable
  3. Are We Ever Satisified?
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I Want to Share with You

Jaka of Jaka’s Tea Party sent me this today as we were talking about life-changing decisions regarding picking up or putting down projects. It made me warm and fuzzy, so I thought I’d share with you, too. (Thanks Jaka!!)  I know it’s been extra quiet around here while I’m working overtime and getting ready for Related posts:

  1. There IS Life…
  2. Wholestyle Manifesto
  3. The Inevitable
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Work Your Passion

Slowly, you are gravitating towards doing what you love for a living. As you read this statement you’re probably thinking about your day job and what you do, and the implications of why you’re not doing what you love. I ask you: What do you do out of love, and what do you do out Related posts:

  1. Wholestyle Manifesto
  2. The Holiday Spirit
  3. Breaking the System
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Life à la mode

I was having a conversation last night with Mister about how the human condition is a struggle to come to terms with our own mortality.  In that, it seems like we’re trying to accomplish so much that sometimes we miss out on the finer points in life – the time spent to yourself on the Related posts:

  1. There IS Life…
  2. New Year, New Focus
  3. Perseverance
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Wholeness

I am whole. Every part of me is a part of the package deal that you get when you sign up. I am “fairy hair” and tattoos. I am a love for books and a strong hate for raisins. I am a little burlesque, a little rocker, a little My Little Pony with Related posts:

  1. More Beautiful Than Fiction
  2. Thursday’s Love List
  3. La bonne vie commence!
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Blogging: Believe in You

This is my note to writers – as a writer we all go through periods of serious blasé when it comes to cranking out material. There’s no reason to fault yourself for this – part of creating is the ebb and flow of creative process. It can’t come to you all the time, Related posts:

  1. Invest In: An Updated Resumé
  2. The Art of Self Love
  3. Embrace Yourself
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Let’s talk about….

You all know about the contest, sponsored by Babeland Seattle that is running here on Bonne Vie.  If you don’t, here’s the link.  We’re closing entries at the end of the week, so hop to! In the meantime, I started thinking about the response to the contest and I started to wonder – where’s the love, Related posts:

  1. Overcoming heartbreak
  2. Wholestyle Manifesto
  3. Happy despite it all
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One of the Most Poignant Things I’ve Read All Day…

Okay, so now I’m SHAMELESSLY regurgitating a little bit of what I found on the internet today, but reading this really resonated (PUN!). I’ll tell you why in a minute… Isn’t it wild how when you think of something it comes to you?  This law of attraction stuff, I must say, is very real, people. Related posts:

  1. Oh! December!
  2. Embrace Yourself
  3. aspirational or inspirational
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Things I’ve Learned From a Man I Never Knew

Love him or hate him, your life changed last Thursday when Michael Jackson, an icon of pop, rock, soul and r&b, left this world.  You’ll probably remember that day as the day that broke the internet.  In the week following, the media has been awash with stories of the man, his legend, and the music Related posts:

  1. One of the Most Poignant Things I’ve Read All Day…
  2. Invest In: Quality Time
  3. We are Amazing
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Links à la Mode: The Coveted Edition

Happiness is being a free bird… Edited by Jennine of IFB & The Coveted Oddly enough since we moved over to the editorial selection, I’ve never selected the links, and I really have to tell you choosing this week’s roundup was tough, so many great links, I had a hard time picking! Well, here we are in the Related posts:

  1. Links à la Mode
  2. Links à la Mode
  3. Links à la Mode
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Links à la Mode

Bonne Vie is happy to present the Independent Fashion Bloggers’ Links à la Mode!  We were featured this week for our bias cut post – but be sure to check out the links from our other blog-friends! Fashion History Edited by Debutante Clothing I was particularly proud of this week’s choices of IFB member links. As a vintage Related posts:

  1. Links à la Mode: Playing Dress-Up
  2. Links à la Mode
  3. IFB Links à la Mode Presents: A Touch of Frivolity
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Thursday Loves!

It’s Thursday already!  Can you believe it?!?  I can’t – time does fly when you’re having fun! It’s been a busy week with a lot of good things that I will expand upon in later posts, but for now, here’s a list of things I love this Thursday morning: ♦ This genius idea: (Image from Godrick Piwonka) ♦ Friends Related posts:

  1. Thursday, Thursday, THURSDAY!
  2. Thursday Love…
  3. Thursday, I don't care about you…
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Today’s Lesson: The Queen of the Bias Cut

Part of what I love about fashion is the history behind it. I love how Coco Chanel put women in less restrictive, menswear-inspired clothing. I love the idea that the jazz age redefined the image of women’s fashion and style. I enjoy reading about designers and their revolutionary ways – especially when Related posts:

  1. Style Vs. Fashion: Links à la Mode
  2. Links à la Mode: Playing Dress-Up
  3. Fresh Face: Jesica Milton
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Bonne Vie gets the Awesome Seal of Approval

Hayden over at Through The Illusion has featured Bonne Vie on her “Celebrate Awesome” feature! If you don’t know about Through The Illusion or the illustrious Ms. Hayden Tompkins yet, here’s what you need to know: Hayden Tompkins is widely recognized as being awesome and totally fabulous. She has an insanely diverse background, due in some part to Related posts:

  1. La bonne vie commence!
  2. Monday Morning Madness
  3. Link Love
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Links à la Mode

Style Metamorphosis Edited by STYLEMOM The Fashion life cycle is ever evolving. Trends come and go faster than ever propelled by the information stream of online and social media. With each change comes a new perspective and new creative ideas flourish. Human survival demands that you must adapt and change with your environment in order to survive Related posts:

  1. Links à la Mode
  2. Links à la Mode: Beyond Fashion
  3. IFB Links à la Mode Presents: A Touch of Frivolity
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Overcoming heartbreak

I have this friend who’s been sort of down for the past little while since a sort of rocky breakup.  I was talking to this person about the little personal speedbump they’ve hit and I started to think about what it’s like to be in that situation.  I know that feeling of needing someone there, Related posts:

  1. Embrace Yourself
  2. The I in Relationship
  3. Let’s talk about….
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