Blogger Style Icon: Barbie of the Day

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This week's Blogger Style Icon is Barbie of the Day: The Ultimate Style Icon. This plastic fantistic icon of our youth is always dressed to impress. I was delighted when the blogger behind Barbie of the Day agreed to be involved in the series, and couldn't wait to ask:

What influences your style choices?


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Blogger Style Icon: Jessica, of What I Wore

I am hugely excited to introduce to you this week's Blogger Style Icon: Jessica, the girl behind the blog What I Wore and the recently published book of the same name.

Jessica is one of the original personal style bloggers who has posted her outfits every day on her tumblr blog since 2007. Her blog is a delight to "read", her style choices make it a gorgeous record of her everyday wardrobe:

I asked Jessica:



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Blogger Style Icon: V, of Grit and Glamour

This week I am so excited to showcase the fabulously stylish V, of Grit and Glamour (a hugely successful and informative blog) in the popular Blogger Style Icon series.

V's style isn't just glamorous and chic, it is wearable too, which is exactly what makes bloggers so appealing as Style Icons and inspiration for the women who read their blogs.

I asked V:


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Blogger Style Icon: B Jones Style

This week's Blogger Style Icon is Beth of B Jones Style whose relaxed Carrie-style buns, California style and colour-blocking makes her the perfect choice for my third post in this new series.

Fashion blogger and stylist Beth demonstrates her sense of style through her blog and the beautiful photo shoots she presents there:

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How to: A Masterclass in Re-Mixing by the Duchess of Cambridge

Kate Middleton is clearly a fan of re-mixing* her wardrobe too and used her trip to Canada as the perfect opportunity to demonstrate her expertise and ease with which she seemingly effortlessly dons the same pair of jeans or the same pair of shoes for the third, fourth or even fifth appearance of the trip. This really is capsule packing at its most glamorous!

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Blogger Style Icon: Paula, of Pink Bow

This week's Blogger Style Icon is the fabulous and stylish Paula, of Pink Bow.

Last week saw the start of the Blogger Style Icon series - a series which follows on from the long-running Style Icon series and focuses on those bloggers who influence and inspire you and me.

VINTAGE: Etsy dress

Paula showcases her outfits on her blog: these outfits combine high street with higher end designer pieces and unique and vintage pieces that she finds on eBay, Etsy and at markets and boot sales.

Her attention to details - in her outfits and the photographs of them - is always inspired. And in my book, anyone who can pull off a turban, like this, is truly a style icon:

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Blogger Style Icon: Amanda, aka The Online Stylist

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For a long while now I have been wondering how to move forward with the Style Icon series which has run on this blog for nearly 18 months. A few people suggested to me that I feature bloggers who are style icons as it seems that more and more often bloggers are influencing our style choices (something which is discussed and encouraged in many of the Friend Friday posts). Last month, I found myself lusting after a dress posted by Amanda, of The Online Stylist, and then buying the dress in question. Then it turned out that I was not the only one to be influenced by The Online Stylist: turns out the lovely lady behind Looking Fab at Any Age was also inspired to go purchase a dress, after seeing it on Amanda. So it seemed only right that Amanda be the first fashion blogger to be featured in the new and improved Style Icon posts:

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Style Icon UPDATE: Duchess of Cambridge (aka Kate Middleton) at Wimbledon

The Duchess of Cambridge, who will forever be Kate Middleton, proved her fashion credentials yet again, as she attended Wimbledon with her husband to watch Andy Murray win his fourth round match at the All England Club:

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Style Icon Update: Duchess of Cambridge (Kate Middleton)

Anyone else think that the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, looked fabulous and radiant when she attended the ARK Gala last night with her husband of just over a month? The Jenny Packman dress she chose for the event was beautifully intricate and understated:

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Whilst the dress - with a price tag of over £2,000 - is probably out of most of our reach, the shoes she chose to accompany the dress are not. The gorgeous nude bow-embellished heels are by L.K. Bennett. I found them in black at John Lewis:

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Style Icon: Battle of the First Ladies

As the US President and his wife end their tour of Europe, now seems like a good time to look back at their three day visit to the UK and to the inevitable fashion fight between the two First Ladies, Michelle Obama and Samantha Cameron.

On Tuesday when Barack Obama and his wife arrived at Downing Street, Samantha Cameron welcomed the American First Lady into No 10:

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Birthday Style Icon: Lily Cole

In case anyone missed it, today is my birthday!!! It is also the birthday of today’s Style Icon: Lily Cole, model, actress, university undergrad student and humanitarian and environmental campaigner:

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She might only turn 23 today but she has not wasted any time in using her celebrity star to its advantage.

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Happy Birthday to a Style Icon: Audrey Hepburn

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Yesterday would have been Audrey Hepburn's 82nd birthday. She is (probably!) my ultimate Style Icon. You can find the post I wrote last year here.


Who is your Style Icon?

If you have missed the previous style icons featured on the blog, check them out here.

I am seeking for bloggers who would like to write a guest post for this series (see here for previous guest bloggers on this site) about their Style Icon. Please get in touch if you would like to get involved. You can find out more here.

*Thank you to Jill at Street Style London for alerting me to the fact that yesterday would have been Audrey Hepburn's birthday - now, go visit her lovely post.

GUEST POST: STYLE ICON: Fearne Cotton

It's that time again, Style Icon time. This week's Style Icon comes from Eve Maria who writes my new blog must-read: A Handful of Dust. Be sure to check out Eve's polyvore sets which demonstrate of very cute sense of style and her Changing Room Subterfuge series.


Eve Maria is a philosophy post-grad student who blogs on the side, she told me,


"One of the reasons I love fashion blogging is that while my uni studies demand critical thinking, fashion blogging allows me to be creative and stimulates my artistic side. I've just (this week!) bought a Panasonic Lumix G10 DSLR so I'm looking forward to making outfit posts on the blog bigger and better."

This week Eve Maria has chosen Fearne Cotton as her Style Icon:

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GUEST POST: STYLE ICON: Hedy Lamarr

This week's Style Icon post is from a fabulous blogger who I only discovered when she emailed me to ask if she could write this post. When I clicked over to her blog and discovered that she's just 16, I was more than a little impressed! Ten years ago (yes, I am 26) I was addicted to Dawson's Creek and wearing strange floral corduroy skirts - definitely not fashion blog territory.


Well, the blogger behind Through Tinted Glass, Nivedita is one fashion conscious blogger who has her head firmly screwed on. When I asked Nivedita to tell me a little about herself and the blog, she told me:


"Although I'd have liked to have studied specializing in fashion media/journalism or just literature in general, on my parents and teachers insistence and my own logical reasoning, I figured it'd be better to have a firm base of a degree in engineering or something so I'd have something to fall back on if my literary career bombshells. Science and Math are something I'm good at even though I don't like them as much as I like language."


So it should come as no real surprise that Nivedita has chosen a style icon with the formidable combination of brains and beauty:


Hedy Lamarr is known as “The Most Beautiful Woman in Films” and I must say, that is very true. Judge for yourself:

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GUEST POST: STYLE ICON: Emily Henderson

Over the past few months I’ve made a call for submissions for the Style Icon series. It’s funny, but I have my particular style icons, who influence my decisions on what I wear every day but there are so many more style icons whose style and poise continue to impress upon me their right to be included too. I love to discover other people’s style icons, sometimes people I’d never have thought of, or haven’t even heard of in some cases!

When Emily of Simple Subtle Style contacted me and asked if she could submit a post about her style icon, Emily Henderson, how could I say no? As an Emily too, it all seemed pretty much fate that another Emily should ask to write about a third Emily!

Emily – the blogger, of Simple Subtle Style – is a girl after my own heart: she tells us that “Simplicity is more fashionable to me” and that “Overpaying is never fashionable. Real style doesn’t have a price tag. Thank goodness because otherwise, my bank account would not survive in this game.”

But enough of this Emily’s ramblings (that’s me!!), I’ll pass over to Emily (the other blogger) to tell us about her style icon, Emily:

Thanks to Emily for allowing me (Emily) to share my Style Icon, Emily Henderson!



Emily Henderson first came to fame as the winner of the 5th season of HGTV’s Design Star and is now the host of her own interior design show, Secrets of a Stylist. Her great taste shines in her home décor but also in her wardrobe.


Emily is my style icon because her outfits look great while still being simple and comfortable enough to wear every day. Most celebrity trend-setters are often too flashy or impractical and I can’t incorporate their style into my daily routines.


Emily wears a lot of comfortable jeans but really makes her outfits stand out by using various prints:


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GUEST POST: Style Icon: Kate Middleton

*This post was updated below on 1 May 2011.


This week’s style icon post is special for two reasons, the first is that this is a guest post from the lovely Lexie of The Stylista and the Frog, and second is that it kick starts a month of special posts celebrating the Royal Wedding that will take place at the end of the month, on Friday 29 April between today’s style icon, Catherine Middleton and Prince William.

Lexie explains: “The Stylista and the Frog is a fashion blog that was set up as a way to collate looks/trends/styles that have inspired me and the people I meet.” Lexie’s blog might only be a few months old but reading her posts, you’d think she had been blogging for years. Check out her latest street style pics – she certainly has an eye for spotting some v stylish young ladies!

Before, I finally hand over to Lexie to tell us about her style icon, I just want to thank Lexie and all of our guest bloggers and remind you that you can still email me with your style icon:

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Style Icon: Dame Elizabeth Taylor

Following the sad death of Dame Elizabeth Taylor yesterday, I wanted to pay tribute to one of the silver screen's most stylish icons of the twentieth century.

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Style Icon: Nadine Coyle

Happy St Patrick's Day!!

This week's Style Icon is Irish Pop Princess, Nadine Coyle, of Girls Aloud:



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Style Icon: Chanel FROW

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Tell me, who is your style icon? If you have missed the previous style icons featured on the blog, check them out here.

I am also looking for bloggers who would like to write a guest post for this series, about their Style Icon, please get in touch if you would like to get involved. You can find out more here.

Style Icon: Coco Rocha

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With Fashion Week month still in full swing and having moved on to the final destination of Paris, I am continuing the model theme for this week's Style Icon: Coco Rocha.

But Coco Rocha is not just a model, she is also a blogger!

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