The Citizen's Choice: BEST Blogs of 2010

The Citizen's Choice: Best Blogs of 2010

2010 was a bumper-crop year for blog excellence.

Fashion exploded across the blogosphere as the fashion industry made room for its new media darling: the fashion blogger. Personal style went viral.  Networks started sprouting up the world-wide-web over, featuring "every-day" people posting their outfits.  These networks and the accompanying personal blogs have served as catalysts for other's wardrobes, creating a new channel of style influence.

Creme de la creme: Susie Lau of Style Bubble

This blossoming democratization of fashion has quickly become as powerful a trend-maker as the dictates of Vogue, WWD, or Elle. With compelling components chronicling real-life fashion in real time, the personal style blogger has been pushing her svelte yet collective weight against the marketplace; that weight has resoundingly translated pounds into dollars, with retailers quickly cashing in on blogger pull. Suddenly what was hot in the blogosphere is sold-out at the mall.

2010 was THE YEAR OF THE FASHION BLOGGER.  The point is, the tipping point has tipped. And while there can only be one Style Bubble, Style Rookie, or Fashion Toast, there marches a veritable fashion army, a league of stylish and articulate creatives, sartorial soldiers who are beating to their own fashionable drum, and then posting about it. They come from all walks of life,  all ages, all sizes, multi-cultured & colored, charting the course, setting a trendy pace and forever changing the face of fashion.

The Citizen's Choice Awards go to the bestest & brightest  personal style blogs of 2010. The Citizen's criteria: consistent, creative and original content. The emphasis is on personal style, creative expression, original photography and an authentic voice.

Presenting the Citizen's Choice:
The Best Blogs of 2010

1) The Clothes Horse theclothes.blogspot.com/

Rebecca Stice. United States.

Brief description: This is the Best Blog of 2010. Generous servings of beautiful & bold yet introspective stylings, served up with a double helping of literary leanings. Lean, concisely written posts are paired with gorgeous, nature-saturated photography. Innovative with her movable picture gifs and Vimeo videos, The Clothes Horse is an American original.  Rebecca posts like a professional: profusely and with keen sartorial content. 

Citizen's Choice Blog of the Year: The Clothes Horse

2) Grit and Glamour  gritandglamour.com/

Vahni G. United States. 
Brief description: Professional writer/fashion maven Vahni took her blog to the next level in 2010, and her readers & followers with it. Grit and Glamour is characterized a clean lay-out, thoughtful, well-written articles, pertinent subject matter, and a high-level of reader interaction. Warm, personable and charming, Vahni is hands-down, smack-dab at the epi-center of the burgeoning fashion/style blogging community.

True Grit: Vahni of Grit & Glamour, part Amazon goddess, part fashion evangelist. All Glamorous.

3) Clothes Cameras & Coffee 
clothescamerasandcoffee.blogspot.com/

Roz Jana. United Kingdom. 
Brief description: Clothes Camera & Coffee is the creation of a 15 year-old English girl, Roz Jana. Photographed alternatively by her parents, Roz creates editorials (complete with story boards),  which she styles herself, and models in front of the camera. Recently, Roz has also been showcasing her talents behind the camera as well.  Her outfits, expertly styled from a  wardrobe consisting mainly of vintage clothing culled from charity shops, or ransacked from various family-member's closets, are  posed to perfection in the bucolic British countryside. Her sophisticated posts, and poise, belies her young age, and one can easily picture her as the next Grace Coddington.  

The future face of Fashion: Roz Jana stirs up style in Clothes, Cameras and Coffee.

4) Barbro Andersen barkatt-barbro.blogspot.com/

Barbro Andersen. Norway. 
Brief Description: Not just another model/photographer, this Norwegian beauty creates haunting images that could easily find its way on to the high-glossy pages of a fashion magazine. Barbro accepts her various accolades quietly, more focused on her honing her craft than she is on tooting her horn.

Nordic Beauty: Photographer, model, fashion writer: Barbro Andersen

5) Another Day to Dress Up
anotherdaytodressup.blogspot.com/

Megan Stewart. United States. 
Brief description: Meggs L-O-V-E-S her vintage. Lithe and leggy, this Californian charmer serves style sunny-side up. The premise is disarmingly simple: she posts  (almost) daily photos of her outfits, laden with vintage and thrift-store finds, amped-up with her signature hats, smokey thigh-highs or ankle socks with platform sandals.

California Sunshine: Meggs of Another Day to Dress Up

The Good Citizen Awards:  

The Citizen Rosebud would like to present
these special awards to the following incredible bloggers.

Classic Fantastic: 

District of Chic. E, Washington DC, USA. districtofchic.com/

That's Capitol! E turns head in classic cuts at District of Chic

Beyond Breathless:

Pandora. Louise Ebel, Paris, France. misspandora.fr

The capricious, the captivating Ms. Pandora

Red is your color & 2011 is YOUR Year: 

Vogue Gone Rogue. KristyElena, USA/Italy. 
voguegonerogue.com

Going Rogue: Kristy Elena makes it all look too easy at Vogue Gone Rogue

Local Favorite: 
Juniper James. Kari Shipman, California, USA. juniperjames.wordpress.com

Jumping Juniper: style maven Kari Shipman showcases sustainable style at Juniper James

"2010 was THE YEAR OF THE FASHION BLOGGER.
  The point is, the tipping point has tipped."

The Citizen's Choice 2010 Best Blogger Awards:

Best Impact: 

Style Bubble. Susie Lao, UK.  http://stylebubble.typepad.com/
Gala Darling. Gala Darling, USA. http://galadarling.com/ 
The Mavens:
The Glamourai, Kelly Framel, USA. theglamourai.com/

What I Wore, Jessica Quirk, USA.whatiwore.tumblr.com

Where Did U Get That, Karen Blanchard,
                            USA/UK. wheredidugetthat.com

Karla's Closet, Karla Deras,USA. karlascloset.blogspot.com

The Beauties:

Frou Frouu, Nadia Sawar, UK.froufrouu.com
Style Scrapbook, Andy Torres, Mexico/The Netherlands.
                          stylescrapbook.com
Jemina, Jemina Jakin, Indonesia/Singapore. jeminajakin.com 
Helmi Ostalla, Ranna, Finland. helmiotsalla.blogspot.com

The Charmers: 
What Katie Wore, Joe Sinclair & Katie MacKay,
                          UK.  whatkatiewore.com
Annushka, Annushka Litvinova, Russia.
                          annushkalitvinova.blogspot.com
Mis Papelicos, Sacramento Martinez, Spain.
                          mispapelicos.blogspot.com
Willow's Twig, Marta P, Poland. wierzbowawitka.blogspot.com

Vintage Vixens:
Liebemarlene, Rhiannon Leifheit, USA. liebemarlene.com
Calivintage, Erin Hagstrom,USA. calivintage.blogspot.com

Style is Style, Lydia Okello,Canada, styleisstyle.blogspot.com

Vixen Vintage,  Solanah, USA. vixenvintage.blogspot.com

The Budget Babes:
Kendi Everyday, Kendi Lea,USA. kendieveryday.blogspot.com
The New Professional, Angeline Evans, USA.
                           the-new-professional.blogspot.com

Miss Vinyl Ahoy, Suze, USA. missvinylahoy.wordpress.com

Clothed Much, a Modest Fashon Blog,
                           Elaine Hearn,USA. clothedmuch.com 

The Cool Kids:
Haiku Ambulance, Zoe Cullie, USA. zoecullie.com
Alice Point, Alice Point,Poland. alicepoint.blogspot.com

Late Afternoon, Liz Cherk, USA. popcultureafternoon.blogspot.com
Annie Spandex, Annie "Spandex", USA. anniespandex.com