6irly6irl has some great tips of how to get the "natural beauty" look.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Polyvore Love Letters: Blog Roundup
We introduced some exciting new features this week that are great for bloggers, like the new Editor improvements and rectangular sets. We can't wait to see how bloggers use these new features to create even more beautiful images! Here's a look at how bloggers in the Polyvore community have been using Polyvore this week.
6irly6irl has some great tips of how to get the "natural beauty" look.
The Glossarie found some sweet gifts to pamper hard-working moms.
If you are a young fashionista looking to the runway for prom inspiration, The Wardrobe Mistress has a mood board just for you.
Ms Fashinista's spring colors in this denim post look fresh for the season.
If you've found inspiring bloggers through Polyvore, or want to be featured in Love Letters, let us know! loveletters@polyvore.com
6irly6irl has some great tips of how to get the "natural beauty" look.
New: Embed Your Set as a Rectangle
Until now, Polyvore sets were always squares, and that’s what appeared on your blog when you embedded a set: a square image. Style bloggers want images that look, well, stylish. That’s why we’re adding a new feature: starting today, you can embed a Polyvore set onto your blog as a rectangle.
Before: a square set.
And here’s the after: rectangle-shaped set images!
Now, when you publish a set and post it to your blog, you can specify the width of the set, and Polyvore will automatically detect the edges of the items in the set to determine the height. The maximum set width is 1024 pixels, and the maximum set height is also 1024 pixels.
You can also check the “Use Square Canvas” checkbox under Set Image Size if you want to embed the set as a square.
With the new flexibility in image sizes, the door is open for you to become even more creative with bringing beautiful Polyvore sets to your blog.
Love,
The Polyvore Team
Before: a square set.
And here’s the after: rectangle-shaped set images!
Now, when you publish a set and post it to your blog, you can specify the width of the set, and Polyvore will automatically detect the edges of the items in the set to determine the height. The maximum set width is 1024 pixels, and the maximum set height is also 1024 pixels.
You can also check the “Use Square Canvas” checkbox under Set Image Size if you want to embed the set as a square.
With the new flexibility in image sizes, the door is open for you to become even more creative with bringing beautiful Polyvore sets to your blog.
Love,
The Polyvore Team
Thursday, May 10, 2012
CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Tommy Hilfiger
Congratulations to Tommy Hilfiger who won CFDA's Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award! Since 1984, Tommy Hilfiger has brought us ultra-American clothing, often emblazoned with red,white and blue. In 1995, he won the CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year award, and this year, he's back for the ultimate accolade. Congratulations!
Member Spotlight: nn10
Today's member spotlight is on nn10. The Washington Post chose her to be the Guest Style Correspondent for their blog and featured her in the print style section. Check out some of her favorite sets here:
Tell us your name, age, profession and what you typically wear every day
My name is Ana, I'm a 29-year-old mom-to-be, and I work as a marketing assistant for an energy-efficiency project. My style is very casual, I like comfortable clothes made out of natural materials, such as cotton and silk. Jeans are inevitable, a necessary part of my closet :) Although my Polyvore sets are filled with heels, in real life I wear them only when necessary - I feel good in them but I'm not really a fashion victim - comfort comes first! Also, I love dresses and skirts, especially summer ones!
Where do you live, and what trends are big there?
I live in Croatia's capital Zagreb and I'd say we're a fashionable country. We have many great Croatian designers, but also, people here just have a great sense of style. Judging by the girls on the streets, a big trend for this spring are floral prints and strong colors as well as wingtip shoes.
What is your favorite brand/designer? What do like about that brand?
I couldn't say that I have only one favorite brand, I appreciate many famous brands as well as DIY projects of certain bloggers. I like Jason Wu, Lanvin, Dior, Marc Jacobs, Balmain, Burberry Prorsum, Chloe, Stella McCartney. Those designers are not really alike, but their designs have a certain appeal - they are interesting, simple and special at the same time. It's a great art to create something that appears to be simple but still catches the eye with an interesting detail.
Which celebrity has great style?
I love Michelle Williams's style, as well as Blake Lively's (especially in her role in Gossip Girl). Sarah Jessica Parker is already an icon, and Jennifer Aniston as well. Recently I've noticed Olivia Palermo, whose style is definitely inspiring!
What are your personal aspirations/goals?
My personal goal has nothing to do with fashion, really :) Fashion is just a world I like to dive into once in a while, but my personal goal is only to enjoy life as much as I can and appreciate all the small things in it. I would love to create a business of my own some day and enjoy in doing it, as well as to enjoy a happy family life, filled with laughter, love and health.
How has Polyvore affected your life?
Polyvore is a hobby of mine that helps me to take my mind off of some things and to be a little girl playing dress up once more :)
I find it entertaining and inspiring - you get to see the latest fashion trends and have the freedom to adjust them to your personal sense of style. I have a certain creativity in me and this is just one way of showing and developing it.
Describe your personal sense of style.
My style is simple and "clean", I'm not up for some fashion experiments. I love interesting details in clothes and jewelry but true elegance can only be simple. Therefore, my rule would be "less is more".
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
New Improvements to the Editor
More obvious background tool. We've made the background tool more obvious by showing a preview of how an image will look with its background, without it and with custom cropping.
Bigger Publish button. The 'Publish' button is now bigger and blue so it's easy to see.
Improved visual design. We've updated the editor icons to be consistent with the rest of the site's look and feel. Also, to make it easier for newer members to navigate the items tab, we've added bottom pagination and a link back to all items in the header.
We
hope you like the new changes and find them helpful. As always, we love
to hear your feedback. If you have thoughts or suggestions on things
you'd like to see in the editor, please leave a comment here.
Love,
The Polyvore Team
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Friday, May 4, 2012
Polyvore Love Letters: Blog Roundup
We started this week with an inspirational and stylish gathering of bloggers at LuckyFabb in Santa Monica. So it's only appropriate to end the week with all the creative sets from some of our favorite bloggers!
Fashionista New York Girl created a great set to show off how to wear these bold snake print pants. We love that she used the numbers and arrows graphic in the Polyvore editor. If you haven't tried it, check it out next time you create a set.
Not Just Happenstance chose all her favorite pastel finds into this great Topshop set.
Cinco de Mayo is just hours away, so La Petite Fashionista picked out a perfect outfit to celebrate the holiday.
Here's a new take on using Polyvore on your blog -- Tanya, a portrait photographer, used Polyvore to show her clients some great outfit ideas for a family portrait.
If you've found inspiring bloggers through Polyvore, or want to be featured in Love Letters, let us know!
loveletters@polyvore.com
Fashionista New York Girl created a great set to show off how to wear these bold snake print pants. We love that she used the numbers and arrows graphic in the Polyvore editor. If you haven't tried it, check it out next time you create a set.
Member Spotlight: bluescribe
Today's member spotlight is on bluescribe. A Polyvore member for eight months, bluescribe is a Kate Bosworth/JewelMint contest winner. She won a year's subscription to JewelMint. Check out some of her favorite sets:
Tell us your name, age, profession and what you typically wear every day
My name is Grace Wright. I'm a 19-year-old (20 on the 29th!) performance studies undergrad at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. My daily style uniform is typically preppy/feminine, with something edgy thrown in. Today I'm wearing a J.Crew white button-down tucked into a Karl for Net-a-Porter pleated, faux-leather skirt, a chambray blazer on top and some metallic gold Sperrys.
Where do you live, and what trends are big there?
I currently live in Evanston, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. It's where I go to school. Since it's a college campus, you see very "collegiate" trends for girls in a lot of muted colors: riding boots, vests, plenty of Hunter wellies, skinny jeans, Sperrys, North Face jackets. A lot of weatherproof fashion since the majority of the school year is chilly. I think I do go out of my way to add more color to my wardrobe than most people here.
What is your favorite brand/designer? What do like about that brand?
Right now I'm J.Crew all the way. They're really great at adapting to trends while staying polished and feminine. And their student discount helps. ;) As far as individual designers / things I can't afford, Marc Jacobs can do no wrong. The last couple Louis Vuitton shows, the spring carousel and the fall show with the working train on the runway... I couldn't believe my eyes.
Which celebrity has great style?
Well, Kate Bosworth is an obvious inspiration. ;) I also have to say I'm really admiring Emma Stone right now. She plays it very cool in the public eye: skinny jeans, cute jacket and flats, practical big bag. And then when she gets on the red carpet, she's just mesmerizing: quirky-glamorous, really put together and pretty. And I LOVE how she always pulled off red as a redhead.
What are your personal aspirations/goals?
Right now, I'm just trying to make it through school! And after that... Part of me wants a PhD, part of me wants to start getting jobs in showbiz right away (casting direction, somehow working it up to production), and then there's a chunk of me that wants to put everything I've done in school aside and get into fashion. I do sketches from time to time but school tends to pull me away from that. I love my classes and my major, but I always wonder...
How has Polyvore affected your life?
Polyvore has been an artistic outlet for me at a time in my life when it's just not practical to buy a bunch of art supplies and keep magazine clippings everywhere. It's kept me abreast of trends and informed my own personal style. It's enabled me to talk to people from all over the world. I've been able to help others, which is always rewarding. I remember helping someone in the "Ask" boards pick bridesmaid dresses for a wedding... She later messaged me and told me she was going to use the very dress I'd suggested! It was so fascinating to have a real, tangible impact; it made me think about what a career in styling might be like. And, for someone like me going into the job market in a couple years, Polyvore can actually be a networking resource. I don't know if anything will come of it besides some awesome free jewelry, but the fact that Kate Bosworth knows I'm out there is pretty cool. :)
How would you describe your set style?
A couple months ago was when my set style kind of "crystallized," I guess. I started leaving white edges on everything to make the image seem cleaner (which can be a lot of work with custom borders, but worth it). I like an even balance of pictures and magazine articles. While it can be really time consuming, I try to find fashion editorials and random photographs with the same colors and aesthetic of the outfit I'm featuring. And then I throw on colored flowers and paint splotch effects to accent the whole image and fill negative space.
Describe your personal sense of style.
My sense of style is always feminine, and usually preppy in some way. I'm definitely more J.Crew and less Guess, if that puts it in perspective - although I do try to mix in edgy pieces here and there. (Net-a-Porter had a feature in which they called J.Crew "geek chic," which I think is pretty fitting for me.) I try to stay of-the-moment, but that's often impractical for a college student. I LOVE colors: I'm way into colored jeans right now, still waiting to see if printed jeans are gonna stick around before I get a pair of those...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Your Celebrity Wedding
We've all thought about it. We're walking down the aisle, and the groom waiting for us at the end is...?
If you could marry anyone, who would it be? Show us what your celebrity wedding would look like!
If you could marry anyone, who would it be? Show us what your celebrity wedding would look like!
What Would You Wear as a Bridesmaid?
How do you look awesome as a bridesmaid without upstaging the bride?
It's tricky! Dresses have come a long way from the revamped prom-look.
What would you wear as a bridesmaid?
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